Cuba beat 4-1 the US university national team in the last game of the traditional baseball match, won 3-2 by the American side.

The Jose Raul Capablanca Chess House, located in the centric Cespedes Park in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba is one of the most visited installations by chess lovers and is highlighted by its colonial façade dating back to the end of the 18 th century.

Cuba´s First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel saw off the first group of athletes that will compete in the Pan American Games to be held in the Canadian city of Toronto, July10-26.

Argentina qualified for the title discussion of the Copa America Chile 2015 against the host squad the upcoming Saturday after defeating Paraguay in the second semifinal.

The first figures of Cuban chess experienced slight decreases in the world ranking, which was updated yesterday and will rule throughout July.

Cuba will face today the US national university team, in the town of Cary, North Carolina, in the first game of the traditional match between the two baseball powers.

After beating Peru on Monday in a hard-fought game, Chile will know today its rival for the title of the Copa America when Argentina to face Paraguay in the other semifinal match.

The Cuban men´s and women´s pairs won gold and silver medals, respectively, in the second phase of the North, Central American and Caribbean (NORCECA) Beach Volleyball Circuit, which ended in Punta Cana, the Dominican Republic.

Cuba said goodbye to the World Volleyball League losing to hosts Bulgaria in a Group C match of the second level of the event, based in the city of Varna.

Cuba will try to reach its tickets to the finals of the second stage of the men´s and women´s North, Central American and Caribbean Beach Volleyball circuit when facing the United States and Canada, respectively, in Punta Gorda, the Dominican Republic.

Chile will try today to impose its offensive superiority and host status when facing Peru in the first semifinal of the Copa America.

The Cuban women's team will face Australia on Friday in the first round of group P of the third level of the Volleyball Grand Prix, with the city of Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan, as its venue.

The Cuban U-23 soccer team will face Aruba on Friday, in the second round of the Olympic qualifying tournament of the Caribbean region, in a game scheduled for the Antigua Recreation Ground, in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda.

The Cuban men's team will face the Bulgarian host this weekend in the last week of Group C's preliminary games of the second level of the World Volleyball League, in games to be held in the city of Varna.

Russian Kirsan Nikolayevich Iliumzhinov, president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), arrived in Cuba on Thursday with the purpose of taking part in the closing ceremony of the 50th edition of the Capablanca in Memoriam Chess Tournament, under way at the Habana Libre Hotel in this capital.

Chinese Grand Master Yu Yangyi won the 50th Capablanca Memorial Chess Tournament Elite Group with one round in advance after drawing with Cuban Lazaro Bruzon.