Raimundo García (27 May 1936 – 13 October 2020) was an Argentine chess master.
At the beginning of his career, he took 7th at Santa Fe 1956 (Miguel Najdorf won). Then he tied for 10-11th in Argentine Chess Championship (Hermann Pilnik won) in 1958, tied for 6-7th at Quilmes 1959 (Alberto Foguelman won), and tied for 3rd-5th at Buenos Aires 1961 (ARG-ch, Héctor Rossetto won).[1]
García won at Mar del Plata 1962 (Torneo Latino-americano),[2] and was Argentine Champion in 1963.[3] In 1963 he won a match against Samuel Schweber (3 : 2) in Buenos Aires, tied for 7-9th at Fortaleza 1963 (zonal, Rossetto won), and took 10th at Buenos Aires 1964 (Paul Keres won).
He tied for 5-6th at Buenos Aires / Rio Hondo 1966 (zonal, Henrique Mecking won), tied for 3rd-4th at Mar del Plata 1969 (zonal, Najdorf and Oscar Panno won) and lost a match (play-off) to Mecking (0.5 : 2.5) at São Paulo 1969, took 14th at Buenos Aires 1970 (Robert James Fischer won), and tied for 3rd-4th at Mar del Plata 1976 (Raúl Sanguinetti and Victor Brond won).
García played for Argentina in Chess Olympiads:
He was awarded the IM title in 1964.