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It is very likely that notability can be definitively established for this player if someone can access the book Ajedrez en Guatemala, published in 1947. As WorldCat points out, this book is available in several libraries around the world. Furthermore, p. 124 of El ajedrez en Costa Rica (2003) reproduces a 1953 article calling him "one of the three great figures of Guatemalan chess" along with Guillermo Vassaux and Enrique Hidalgo. So this article does not meet WP:CSD and PROD is inappropriate. Whether the article can survive AFD is a question of whether one can access the book I mentioned or other relevant sources such as Guatemalan newspapers from the 1940s. The Mexican digital newspaper archive HNDM might also be helpful. Chess Personalia (which I unfortunately don't have) apparently gives a birth year of 1924 (see Winter), and Salazar was still running a bookstore in Guatemala City in the 1980s. Any research will be complicated by the fact that there are many Guatemalans named Carlos Salazar. Cobblet (talk) 14:57, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
He certainly looks young in this photo of the 1939 Guatemala olympiad team, so the 1924 birth year is probably right. I wonder where Gaige got that info? (My guess is he read some contemporary newspaper that said he was 15 years old at the olympiad, a fairly notable fact). He seems to be mixed up with a Peruvian player with the same name (born 1972) in several online sources, including the chess365 site which should not be linked to for this reason. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 23:43, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
