Carl Pilnick
Number of games in database: 44
Years covered: 1939 to 2003
Last FIDE rating: 2111
Highest rating achieved in database: 2136
Overall record: +16 -22 =6 (43.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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B24		Sicilian, Closed (2 games)
C15		French, Winawer (2 games)
C13		French (2 games)
A07		King's Indian Attack (2 games)
D11		Queen's Gambit Declined Slav (2 games)
A48		King's Indian (2 games)

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CARL PILNICK (born Dec-24-1923) United States of America [what is this?] Carl Pilnick was born in New York City. He moved to Los Angeles in 1961 and was active in Southern California. He tied for 1st place in the 1971 American Open.

page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 44  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. C Pilnick vs Yanofsky   0-1 27 1939 US Open Consolation Final C13 French 2. C Pilnick vs Pinkus 0-1 23 1939 USA-ch prel A03 Bird's Opening 3. Kashdan vs C Pilnick   1-0 33 1942 USA-ch A52 Budapest Gambit 4. I A Horowitz vs C Pilnick   1-0 33 1942 USA Ch C10 French 5. C Pilnick vs Reshevsky ½-½ 93 1942 New York ch-USA D70 Neo-Grunfeld Defense 6. Santasiere vs C Pilnick   1-0 30 1942 New York A48 King's Indian 7. Larry Evans vs C Pilnick 1-0 29 1946 Marshall Club Championship C13 French 8. W Young vs C Pilnick   0-1 28 1948 US Open A48 King's Indian 9. C Pilnick vs L Isaacs   1-0 40 1948 US op C41 Philidor Defense 10. O Ulvestad vs C Pilnick   0-1 47 1948 US Open D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 11. P Le Cornu vs C Pilnick   0-1 43 1948 US Open A39 English, Symmetrical, Main line with d4 12. C Pilnick vs H Rossetto   1-0 32 1948 Buenos Aires C74 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense 13. M Pavey vs C Pilnick   1-0 39 1948 US Open A04 Reti Opening 14. C Pilnick vs W Adams   1-0 37 1948 US op A29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto 15. C Pilnick vs Kashdan   0-1 39 1948 US Open E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 16. J F Donovan vs C Pilnick   0-1 44 1948 US Open E76 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack 17. C Pilnick vs E McCormick   0-1 48 1948 US op D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 18. P Brandts vs C Pilnick   1-0 31 1954 USA-ch A90 Dutch 19. C Pilnick vs J Sherwin   ½-½ 28 1954 USA-ch A07 King's Indian Attack 20. Larry Evans vs C Pilnick   1-0 53 1954 USA-ch D91 Grunfeld, 5.Bg5 21. C Pilnick vs S Bernstein   1-0 51 1954 USA-ch D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 22. C Pilnick vs Seidman 0-1 17 1954 New York ch-USA A07 King's Indian Attack 23. C Pilnick vs E Hearst   0-1 62 1954 USA-ch E38 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 4...c5 24. C Pilnick vs Berliner   1-0 48 1954 USA-ch B25 Sicilian, Closed 25. S Wachs vs C Pilnick   0-1 56 1954 USA-ch D02 Queen's Pawn Game  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 44

Jun-08-09    amolv: Is this all one guy? This has to be one of the largest spanning time-ranges on this site. 64 years!! Mar-12-11    GrahamClayton: Excellent biography and game scores at: http://chessjournalism.org/pdf/cjse... Jun-27-11    perfidious: Carl Pilnick is an object example of when not to judge a player by FIDE rating: many years ago, while not in the class of Reshevsky/Kashdan/Fine, he was one of the strongest American players. Jun-27-11    FSR: <amolv> (belatedly) He's way, way up there, but Samuel Reshevsky beats him by a decade (1917-91). Jun-27-11    SwitchingQuylthulg: Francisco Benko has 77 years (1928-2005), but of course NN eats everyone else alive. Jun-27-11    keypusher: <FSR: <amolv> (belatedly) He's way, way up there, but Samuel Reshevsky beats him by a decade (1917-91).> By rather bitter coincidence, the same years the USSR was extant. Jun-27-11    FSR: <SwitchingQuylthulg> Good catch on Francisco Benko. And yes, NN has hung his face to everyone from Greco in 1497 to Kasparov in 2010. <keypusher> Interesting point, although Wikipedia says the Soviet Union as such wasn't established until 1922. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet...

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