Roman Toran Albero
Number of games in database: 264
Years covered: 1951 to 1975
Current FIDE rating: 2445
Overall record: +90 -82 =92 (51.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  King's Indian (20)      E74 E69 E75 E63 E94  Sicilian (12)      B67 B64 B93 B51 B28  English (10)      A14 A15 A16 A13  Ruy Lopez (8)      C90 C97 C76 C85 C96  English, 1 c4 e5 (7)      A21 A25  Ruy Lopez, Closed (7)      C90 C97 C85 C96	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (45)      B32 B36 B92 B90 B72  King's Indian (34)      E61 E81 E94 E90 E64  Sicilian Dragon (18)      B36 B72 B35 B39 B75  Sicilian Najdorf (10)      B92 B90 B93 B91 B95  Ruy Lopez (9)      C66 C78 C79 C68 C67  Queen's Pawn Game (6)      A40 A45 A46 E10

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   R Toran Albero vs O'Kelly, 1967 1-0
   Korchnoi vs R Toran Albero, 1969 0-1

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ROMAN TORAN ALBERO (born Oct-08-1931, died Oct-01-2005) Spain [what is this?] Roman Toran Albero was born on the 8th of October 1931 in Gijon, Spain. Awarded the IM title in 1954 he was Spanish Champion in 1951 and 1953.

page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 264  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. J Mangini vs R Toran Albero   0-1 47 1951 San Rafael B10 Caro-Kann 2. F J Perez vs R Toran Albero   1-0 46 1951 Madrid B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 3. J Canepa vs R Toran Albero   ½-½ 32 1951 San Rafael A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 4. R Toran Albero vs W Ader Hausman   1-0 49 1951 San Rafael A45 Queen's Pawn Game 5. H Steiner vs R Toran Albero   0-1 34 1951 Madrid E85 King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox Variation 6. R Kalkstein vs R Toran Albero   0-1 25 1951 San Rafael B72 Sicilian, Dragon 7. R Toran Albero vs H Corral   1-0 26 1951 San Rafael B93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4 8. J Enevoldsen vs R Toran Albero   0-1 56 1951 Madrid B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation 9. R Toran Albero vs A Pomar-Salamanca   1-0 42 1951 Madrid B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen 10. W Estrada Degrandi vs R Toran Albero   0-1 40 1951 San Rafael B71 Sicilian, Dragon, Levenfish Variation 11. J Sanz vs R Toran Albero   ½-½ 28 1951 Madrid B93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4 12. R Toran Albero vs J Moura   1-0 36 1951 Madrid D79 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O, Main line 13. R Toran Albero vs J M Fuentes   1-0 64 1951 Madrid B28 Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation 14. R Toran Albero vs R Linskens   1-0 35 1951 San Rafael C12 French, McCutcheon 15. J Llado Lumbera vs R Toran Albero   1-0 42 1951 Madrid B74 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical 16. R Toran Albero vs Prins   0-1 49 1951 Madrid A07 King's Indian Attack 17. E Canal vs R Toran Albero   0-1 47 1951 Madrid B50 Sicilian 18. R Toran Albero vs M A Muniz Fo   1-0 36 1951 San Rafael C47 Four Knights 19. Torrens vs R Toran Albero   0-1 26 1951 Madrid B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 20. E Eliskases vs R Toran Albero   ½-½ 34 1952 Havana B10 Caro-Kann 21. Gligoric vs R Toran Albero 1-0 14 1952 Havana B10 Caro-Kann 22. R Toran Albero vs Ed Lasker   0-1 41 1952 Havana C47 Four Knights 23. Udovcic vs R Toran Albero   1-0 31 1952 Zuerich LB E43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation 24. R Toran Albero vs Najdorf   ½-½ 36 1952 Havana E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto 25. R Toran Albero vs M Aleman Dovo   1-0 64 1952 Havana E17 Queen's Indian  page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 264

Oct-27-04    nikolaas: In Spain vs USA match in the 1958 Munich olympiadToran won against Bisguier on the third board. As soon as the American master resigned Toran said with a smile: "I am so happy, it's a nice present for my birthday!". "It's all right" - said his opponent politely - "today happens to be my birthday too"... Oct-02-05    meloncio: Roman Torán died yesterday 1st October in Madrid. Moreover what it's writen in Chessgames Biography, he was many times a main member of the spanish chess olympic team, and became a very popular man of the spanish chess world being President of the Spanish Chess Federation from 1984 to 1997. RIPA. If you can read spanish, take a look here: http://www.feda.org/index.htm Oct-06-05    WTHarvey: Here is a little collection of puzzles from Roman's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/tora.html Jan-26-06    BIDMONFA: Roman Toran Albero TORAN, Roman Died 1 october 2005 http://www.bidmonfa.com/toran_roman... _ Oct-08-09    Abdooss: <nikolaas> you are right! They really shared the same birthday.. Oct 8th.. Bisguier in 1929 and Albero in 1931.. Oct-08-09    Tabanus: There's an article in NIC 1990 no. 5. He played five times in Corus, http://www.coruschess.com/players.p... Author of "La defensa holandesa", http://ocioyajedrez.com/defensa-hol..., and "Bronstein: El Genio Del Ajedrez Moderno", Madrid 1957. FIDE vice president 1982-1990. http://www.ajedrezmarmenor.es/Jose_... Jan-05-10    Eastfrisian: As I know, his hobby was to collect stamps.

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