Luis Roux Cabral

Luis Lisandro Roux Cabral (17 November 1913^[1] - 1973) was a Uruguayan chess master. He was born in Montevideo.

Chess career

He won the Uruguayan Chess Championship twice, in 1948 and 1971,^[2] and played for Uruguay in the Chess Olympiads of 1939, 1964 and 1966.^[3]

"The Uruguayan Immortal"

Main article: Uruguayan Immortal

In the Uruguay Championship of 1943, Roux Cabral defeated Molinari with a brilliant sacrificial attack; the combination is known as "The Uruguayan Immortal".^[4] Fred Reinfeld annotated the game on pages 11–12 of the Chess Correspondent, May–June 1944. His final remark was: "A game destined for immortality."^[5]