| May-12-04 | | Lawrence: IT'S NEVER TOO LATE. Esteban Canal (1896-1981) became the first Peruvian GM.....at the age of 81. Lived most of his life in the enchantingly beautiful city of Venice, and there's a chessclub there named after him. |
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| May-12-04 | | iron maiden: Is he the oldest player to recieve the GM title? (I'm talking about the age at which the player actually earned the title, not someone who, say, got it at 20 and then lived to 90.) |
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May-12-04
 | | Benzol: Esteban Canal
Born 19th April 1896 Chiclayo
Died 14th February Varese
Became an IM in 1950 and Emeritus GM in 1977. He was also Hungarian champion in 1933. |
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May-12-04
| | Benzol: My previous post should have said
Died 14th February 1981.
Honza told me Jaques Mieses was the oldest player to be awarded the GM title. At the time I thought it was Geza Maroczy. |
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| Dec-27-04 | | DanielBryant: Didn't Mario Monticelli receive it fairly late? |
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| Mar-22-05 | | Karpova: Canal had once been in a tramway and bumped into a lady. he was probably lost in thought and said "j'adoube".
he was quite surprised when the lady answered: "oh, you are a chessplayer. then you should know that you have to say j'adoube first!" |
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| Mar-23-05 | | ughaibu: I wonder if she'd been stalking him? |
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| Mar-23-05 | | Karpova: <Daniel Bryant>
yes, Mario Monticelli became GM in 1985 |
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| Apr-19-06 | | BIDMONFA: Esteban Canal CANAL, Esteban
http://www.bidmonfa.com/canal_esteb...
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| Sep-15-07 | | pastpawn: <Lawrence: ... Lived most of his life in the enchantingly beautiful city of Venice> It's funny that someone with a name like Canal would live in Venice :). |
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Jun-05-08
 | | Tabanus: Inventor of the "Canal gambit",
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 c5 5.cxd5 Qb6?!, something to consider in OTB play :) |
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Sep-07-08
 | | GrahamClayton: Canal left Peru as a 13 year-old student and travelled all around Europe, spending time in Spain, France and Belgium before arriving in Germany in 1914. He learned chess there and became the champion of Leipzig in 1916. Source: David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld, "Oxford Companion to Chess", 2nd edition, OUP, 1992 |
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| Nov-10-08 | | Karpova: Pictures of Esteban Canal's and his wife's (Anna Klupacs) grave in Cocquio Trevisago, Italy presented in Winter's C.N. 5831:
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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Nov-10-08
 | | brankat: The gravestone has 1893 as E.Canal's year of birth, "official" Bio 1896. Winter's note also says that, in private, Canal used to say he had been born "before 1896, in Spain, not Peru". |
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| Feb-15-09 | | WhiteRook48: let's go down the Esteban! Even though it's not a real Canal |
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| Apr-19-09 | | laskereshevsky: A well respect player.
Between the grand masters he was a great estimator of Lasker, wich whome he shared a lot of opinions about life and chess, siping togheter good beers...
A personal friend of Capablanca, and a very ironical "persecutor" of Nimtzovich... But for me the most he was a really fantastic chess-games commentator..... To pass-through a game commentated by him, its like to read "novellas" (short stories in good english..) wrotes by the greatest letteracture's writers. At Memoriam, Maestro Esteban... |
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Oct-16-09
 | | Caissanist: Solis Felipe Pinzon wrote a 1987 memoir with a long and interesting chapter on Canal, with many games not included here. In Spanish: http://members.fortunecity.es/unich... |
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Apr-19-10
 | | wordfunph: <pastpawn: <Lawrence: ... Lived most of his life in the enchantingly beautiful city of Venice> It's funny that someone with a name like Canal would live in Venice :).> :-) |
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Jul-28-10
| | GrahamClayton: <Lawrence>Lived most of his life in the enchantingly beautiful city of Venice, and there's a chessclub there named after him. <Lawrence>,
Here are details of the Circulo Esteban Canal:
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hans1... |
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| Sep-15-11 | | SeanBurdine: Tabanus: Inventor of the "Canal gambit",
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 c5 5.cxd5 Qb6?!, something to consider in OTB play :) **********
Also the discoverer (inventor?) of the Canal Variation in the Giuoco Piano. 1 P-K4 P-K4 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 3 B-B4 B-B4 4 P-Q3 N-B3 5 N-B3 P-Q3 6 B-KN5 P-KR3 7 BxN QxB 8 N-Q5 Q-Q1 9 P-B3 and White cannot be prevented from forming an "ideal center". The great Reuben Fine has this to say about the variation [in his classic work Ideas Behind The Chess Openings]: "The lines where White does not try to secure a Pawn at Q4 are, with one exception, easy to meet and consequently of little importance. ... The exception is the Canal Variation, which has led to some striking successes." Fine recommends Black avoid it by playing either 6... B-K3 or 6... N-QR4 instead. |
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