title: Lorenzo Bauzá
text: # Lorenzo Bauzá
  
  Lorenzo R. Bauzá (3 October 1917 – 22 December 1971) was a Uruguayan chess player, five-time Uruguayan Chess Championship winner (1945, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955).
  
  ## Biography
  
  From the mid-1940s to begin 1960s Lorenzo Bauzá was one of Uruguayan leading chess players. He five time won Uruguayan Chess Championships: 1945, 1950, 1951, 1954, and 1955. Lorenzo Bauzá two times participated in World Chess Championship South American Zonal tournaments (1951, 1954).
  
  Lorenzo Bauzá played for Uruguay in the Chess Olympiad:
  
  * In 1962, at fourth board in the 15th Chess Olympiad in Varna (+8, =5, -6).
  