African chess players

Please tell us more about him. Maybe you can share some of your favorite games by him. 

Firstly, I must say that I just found a video where he categorically says he is black ("yo vivía en la parte pobre de Cuba y era negro"):

https://youtu.be/u3qefsQInco?t=713

Some may think he is obviously and visibly black, but Latin America is very mixed and racial identification can be messy.

Wikipedia has a brief introduction to him (and some links):

"Neuris Delgado Ramírez (born 1981) is a Cuban-Paraguayan chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002.

Delgado Ramírez played for Cuba at the Chess Olympiad in 2002, 2004 and 2006. Since 2014 he has been representing Paraguay in this competition.

He played in the FIDE World Cup 2017, and was knocked out by Vidit Santosh Gujrathi in the first round."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuris_Delgado_Ram%C3%ADrez

His peak rating so far was 2636 and as I write this it's 2615 (standard), 2667 (rapid) and 2610 (blitz), which makes him the number 20 chess player of the Americas, world's 178th and Paraguay's 1st.

https://ratings.fide.com/profile/3503631

I know him better by his YouTube videos in Portuguese. He participates in many Brazilian tournaments and win all of them (as far as I know). His rating is well above the highest rating in Brazil: 2592, of Rafael Leitão. (Brazilian Henrique Mecking was once world's 3rd, but he didn't play from 1978 to 1991 because of his myasthenia gravis disease and is currently Brazil's 5th.)

This is his profile in Chess.com (but he have already said he doesn't enjoy online chess that much):
https://www.chess.com/member/neurisdr

I don't have my favorite games by him, but he himself said (in an interview in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WJIIXnKNz0) that the best chess move of his life was in this game:

https://share.chessbase.com/SharedGames/game/?p=OWcg3cNhDUH2bttRXNTI1W5kNhaDeUJjFGEmHrTOl+1unTQDQd1Kc3l+rvkkShAH

I am not sure if you are looking for sincere discussions. If you are, this is not the place. 

I'm not here to discuss IQ, genetics and the like. I just named another grandmaster of black African descent, which is what I think some people come here for.

Anyway, I noted that Zambia and Nigeria have better positions than Japan and South Korea in FIDE country ranking, which at least suggests that we should not give too much weight to IQ as it appears in the most common "IQ by country" tables.
 
https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml

Chess is a sport. Just like soccer, culture plays an important role in it. When soccer was introduced to Brazil, there were important people who said that it was not a sport for Brazilians. Other said it was not for Afro-Brazilians, just for people of European ancestry. Now some Brazilians still say it is not for women (while in the USA it seems to be specially for women). Now, Brazil is said to be "the country of soccer", what shows how much things can change.

https://www.efdeportes.com/efd161/soccer-and-literary-criticism-in-lima-barreto.htm

It seems that there are more than 10 grandmasters with Black African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, but we don't know how they identify themselves racially (or if they don't like to be described by race or ethnicity at all). Some of them are apparently mixed-race, and racial identification in Latin America may be very different from that of the USA (search for "hyperdescent" and "hypodescent").

Daaim Shabazz published an article about Afro-Cuban GM Roman Hernandez:

https://www.thechessdrum.net/blog/2021/02/20/gm-roman-hernandez-afro-cuban-trailblazer/

The article cites other Afro-Cuban chess players (Rogelio Ortega, GM Orelvis Mitjans Perez, WGM Oleiny Linares) and says that others will be featured at another time.

They don't care much about chess in Japan, but here is one who happened to be from a Japanese descent. 

1.  Hikaru Nakamura , FIDE rating‎: ‎2736 (February 2021), was born in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, to an American mother, Carolyn Merrow Nakamura, a classically trained musician and former public school teacher and a Japanese father, Shuichi Nakamura.[4]

2. So, Wesley. FIDE title: Grandmaster. Rating. std 2770.

Wesley Barbasa So (born October 9, 1993) is an American chess grandmaster, the inaugural and current World Fischer Random Chess Champion and a two-time, and the current, U.S. Chess Champion (in 2017 and 2020). He is also a three-time Filipino Chess Champion. 

I'm not sure why this troll is still allowed to post in this thread...

Love education! 

"The truth shall set you free!"

GM Román Hernández Onna dies at 71

https://www.thechessdrum.net/blog/2021/06/12/gm-roman-hernandez-onna-dies-at-71/

By the way: Neuris Delgado Ramirez vs Wesley So, 2000.

This is a bit off-topic, but I found the movie The Queen of Katwe very inspirational. It's about a real chess player named Phiona Mutesi. She represented Uganda at the 2014 Chess Olympiad and the 2016 Chess Olympiad.

Indeed it's a great movie.

Phiona Mutesi currently has the 8th highest FIDE rating among Ugandan women.

https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?tops=1&ina=2&country=UGA

This might interest you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGC0MrWuUTk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oFMKnYFq3A