Carlos Garcia Palermo
Number of games in database: 317
Years covered: 1970 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2460
Highest rating achieved in database: 2550
Overall record: +94 -87 =130 (51.1%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      6 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Queen's Pawn Game (27)      A45 A46 A40 A41 D02  King's Indian (17)      E76 E63 E62 E92 E61  Nimzo Indian (15)      E42 E52 E46 E47 E39  Modern Benoni (11)      A56 A57 A77 A61 A58  Queen's Indian (10)      E12 E15 E17 E18 E14  Queen's Gambit Declined (10)      D37 D31 D30 D38 D35	With the Black pieces:  Caro-Kann (29)      B12 B18 B10 B19 B13  Queen's Gambit Accepted (20)      D27 D24 D23 D29 D21  English, 1 c4 e5 (15)      A29 A20 A22 A25  Queen's Pawn Game (12)      E00 A40 A45 A46 A41  Ruy Lopez (9)      C75 C62 C67 C65 C95  Queen's Gambit Declined (8)      D37 D30 D35 D31

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Fischer vs C Garcia Palermo, 1970 0-1
   C Garcia Palermo vs C Herrera, 2001 1-0
   C Garcia Palermo vs Wolff, 1986 1-0
   V Palermo vs C Garcia Palermo, 2001 0-1

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
   FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)

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CARLOS GARCIA PALERMO (born Dec-02-1953) Argentina (citizen of Italy) [what is this?] Carlos H Garcia Palermo was born in La Plata, Argentina. Awarded the IM title in 1981 and the GM title in 1985 he won several Category VIII tournaments in 1983, 1984 and 1985. In 1986 he was 1st= at Havana and in 1987 at Camaguey. He also played for Argentina on the Olympiad team at Dubai in 1986. Wikipedia article: Carlos Garcia Palermo

page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 317  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Fischer vs C Garcia Palermo 0-1 15 1970 Simul C31 King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit 2. C Garcia Palermo vs J Aijala   0-1 40 1975 7th Open Finnish Ch. C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense 3. C Garcia Palermo vs H P Garcia   ½-½ 20 1975 Zarate Open A81 Dutch 4. C Garcia Palermo vs J Whitehead   ½-½ 38 1977 Lone Pine B36 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto 5. C Garcia Palermo vs D Verduga   1-0 36 1977 Lone Pine E27 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch Variation 6. E Formanek vs C Garcia Palermo   ½-½ 42 1977 Lone Pine C62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense 7. Lombardy vs C Garcia Palermo   1-0 59 1977 Lone Pine C29 Vienna Gambit 8. C Garcia Palermo vs Quinteros   ½-½ 51 1977 Lone Pine B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 9. C Garcia Palermo vs R Henley   ½-½ 54 1977 Lone Pine A77 Benoni, Classical, 9...Re8, 10.Nd2 10. W Martz vs C Garcia Palermo   1-0 48 1977 Lone Pine A10 English 11. Larry Evans vs C Garcia Palermo   ½-½ 52 1977 Lone Pine D80 Grunfeld 12. A Lein vs C Garcia Palermo   1-0 36 1977 Lone Pine B40 Sicilian 13. Qi Jingxuan vs C Garcia Palermo   ½-½ 41 1978 8, Buenos Aires Clarin ARG A53 Old Indian 14. C Garcia Palermo vs E Biagi   1-0 56 1978 Buenos Aires op A10 English 15. C Garcia Palermo vs Smyslov   ½-½ 41 1978 05, Buenos Aires C69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation, 6.d4 16. Gheorghiu vs C Garcia Palermo   ½-½ 60 1978 13, Buenos Aires Clarin ARG E12 Queen's Indian 17. C Garcia Palermo vs Janosevic   0-1 42 1978 Lone Pine A10 English 18. C Garcia Palermo vs Panno   ½-½ 30 1978 7, Buenos Aires Clarin ARG B40 Sicilian 19. A Zuckerfeld vs C Garcia Palermo 1-0 24 1978 Buenos Aires op B77 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack 20. C Garcia Palermo vs H Westerinen   0-1 68 1978 Lone Pine E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto 21. C Garcia Palermo vs J Szmetan   0-1 39 1978 12, Buenos Aires Clarin ARG A30 English, Symmetrical 22. Reshevsky vs C Garcia Palermo 1-0 46 1978 Lone Pine A17 English 23. C Garcia Palermo vs Vaganian   0-1 30 1978 Buenos Aires Clarin A34 English, Symmetrical 24. Browne vs C Garcia Palermo   ½-½ 34 1978 6, Buenos Aires Clarin ARG E17 Queen's Indian 25. C Garcia Palermo vs C Bielicki   ½-½ 43 1978 Buenos Aires op A02 Bird's Opening  page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 317

Mar-02-04    LuisGLopez: This guy won Fischer... in a simul :-) I have the game in a chess magazine; if you like, I can send it to you. Mar-03-04    chessgames.com: Please do. PGN Upload Utility Jul-19-04    ConLaMismaMano: Garcia Palermo's highest rating achieved was 2550 in 1986, when he was 33 years old. Dec-29-04    Benzol: Carlos H Garcia Palermo Born 2nd December 1953 in La Plata Awarded the IM title in 1981 and the GM title in 1985. Dec-16-05    Karpova: he has been living in italy since 1980 and played for italy in olympiads Dec-02-06    BIDMONFA: Carlos Garcia-Palermo GARCIA PALERMO, Carlos http://www.bidmonfa.com/garcia_pale... _ Dec-02-08    brankat: Happy Birthday GM Garcia-Palermo! Dec-02-08    Open Defence: In some books I have his name was given as Palermo-Garcia I guess Garcia-Palermo is correct ? Dec-02-08    brankat: <Open Defence> It's just like <OD> and <RO>. Still the same person :-) Dec-08-08    Augalv: He has always been known in Argentina as Garcia Palermo. Dec-08-08    Augalv: Btw, he is the only Argentine player to have beat a reigning world champion under clasic time controls. C Garcia-Palermo vs Karpov, 1982 Here's a link to an article on the tournament where this game was played published on The NYtimes in 1982. The tournament was won by Jan Timman. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpa... Jul-17-11    Antiochus: Another strike from this argentinian: C Garcia-Palermo vs A S Segal, 1996 Dec-02-12    Abdel Irada: <LuisGLopez: This guy won Fischer... in a simul> The awarding of players as prizes in chess games is a practice I will never understand.

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