Hector Hernandez remembers Ricardo Szmetan

I knew how strong Ricards was, but I did not realize that he was both the 1986 Illinois champion and the winner of one of Helen Warren's Midwest Masters invitational events.  

Full article on the ICA website.

From the 2002 Chess Olympiad

Ricardo Szmetan represented Barbados in the 2002 Olympiad.  I don't know whether he was related to Jorge Szmetan (born 1950), who drew Bobby Fischer in 1971 and who represented Argentina in several Olympiads.

I did not have the pleasure of knowing Ricardo, but many of my friends knew him well.