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Julio Becerra-Rivero
Number of games in database: 251
Years covered: 1994 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2547
Highest rating achieved in database: 2614
Overall record: +104 -55 =91 (59.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      1 exhibition game, odds game, etc. is excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (53)      B43 B90 B31 B27 B30  Ruy Lopez (29)      C78 C97 C91 C88 C96  French Defense (24)      C11 C18 C10 C16 C12  Ruy Lopez, Closed (18)      C97 C91 C88 C96 C87  French (13)      C11 C10 C12  Sicilian Kan (10)      B43 B42	With the Black pieces:  King's Indian (24)      E73 E70 E92 E99 E62  Ruy Lopez (21)      C69 C96 C83 C68 C80  Sicilian (14)      B50 B52 B89 B67 B57  Slav (12)      D10 D17 D15 D14 D13  Semi-Slav (10)      D45 D44 D47 D43  Ruy Lopez Exchange (8)      C69 C68 C85

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   J Becerra-Rivero vs Robson, 2009 1-0
   J Becerra-Rivero vs M Goss, 2012 1-0
   J Becerra-Rivero vs H Spangenberg, 1994 1-0
   Dalton Perrine vs J Becerra-Rivero, 2011 0-1

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   SPICE Cup 2008 by Black Pawn

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JULIO BECERRA-RIVERO (born Oct-15-1973) Cuba (citizen of United States of America) [what is this?] Grandmaster (1997). Cuban Champion in 1995 and 1996. He took 2nd place in the Cuban championship in 1999. Wikipedia article: Julio Becerra Rivero

page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 251  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. J Becerra-Rivero vs Antunes   1-0 42 1994 Havana op B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation 2. J Becerra-Rivero vs Van Wely   ½-½ 59 1994 Capablanca mem-A B96 Sicilian, Najdorf 3. Miles vs J Becerra-Rivero   1-0 48 1994 Capablanca mem-A A48 King's Indian 4. J Becerra-Rivero vs P San Segundo Carrillo   1-0 34 1994 It open B40 Sicilian 5. J Becerra-Rivero vs H Spangenberg 1-0 42 1994 Capablanca B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation 6. M Abarca Aguirre vs J Becerra-Rivero   0-1 59 1994 Moscow ol (Men) E81 King's Indian, Samisch 7. Van Wely vs J Becerra-Rivero 1-0 37 1995 Capablanca mem E92 King's Indian 8. Miles vs J Becerra-Rivero   1-0 39 1995 Capablanca mem A48 King's Indian 9. Quinteros vs J Becerra-Rivero   0-1 52 1995 It (cat.10) E76 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack 10. Larsen vs J Becerra-Rivero   1-0 40 1995 San Martin E70 King's Indian 11. J Becerra-Rivero vs W Arencibia 0-1 33 1995 Andorra op 13th C90 Ruy Lopez, Closed 12. J Becerra-Rivero vs Miles   ½-½ 57 1996 Capablanca A Cienfuegos City CUB B12 Caro-Kann Defense 13. J Becerra-Rivero vs G Timoshchenko   0-1 28 1996 Balaguer op B23 Sicilian, Closed 14. J Becerra-Rivero vs W Arencibia   ½-½ 9 1996 Capablanca mem Elite 31st A39 English, Symmetrical, Main line with d4 15. R Gonzalez vs J Becerra-Rivero   0-1 51 1996 Capablanca mem Elite 31st B50 Sicilian 16. R Vera vs J Becerra-Rivero 1-0 37 1996 Cienfuegos City Cap mem A04 Reti Opening 17. I Morovic vs J Becerra-Rivero   1-0 32 1996 Capablanca A Cienfuegos City CUB B57 Sicilian 18. R Gonzalez vs J Becerra-Rivero   0-1 53 1996 CUB-ch B50 Sicilian 19. A Minasian vs J Becerra-Rivero   ½-½ 76 1997 4th World Team Ch B23 Sicilian, Closed 20. J Becerra-Rivero vs Khurtsidze   1-0 46 1997 4th World Team Ch B42 Sicilian, Kan 21. M Kazhgaleyev vs J Becerra-Rivero   1-0 42 1997 4th World Team Ch E70 King's Indian 22. J Becerra-Rivero vs A Zapata 1-0 38 1997 Capablanca Elite,CUB B49 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 23. Rublevsky vs J Becerra-Rivero   1-0 33 1997 4th World Team Ch B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 24. Pelletier vs J Becerra-Rivero   1-0 42 1997 4th World Team Ch E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 25. J Becerra-Rivero vs Bacrot   ½-½ 13 1998 Capablanca mem Elite 33rd C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed  page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 251    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Becerra-Rivero wins | Becerra-Rivero loses

May-20-05    mindanalyzer: Cheers, Julio! I hope you do well in future tournaments. "Another Cuban from miami" Oct-06-05    chenturini: I want read a short biography of J. Becerra-Rivero. I remember his performance in Habana, Nov-1992. Curiosly, was the first international tournament of Paco Vallejo (ten years at the moment). Becerra was spectacular, and overwhelmed all rivals. Great. Mar-11-07    thesonicvision: there really should be more info about him here. he's a 2600+, and one of the best in the states. May-19-07    BIDMONFA: Julio J Becerra-Rivero BECERRA, Julio http://www.bidmonfa.com/becerra_jul... _ May-22-07    bauernfresser: He was MVP in the US Chess League 2006. May-16-08    Knight13: Everyone in Florida knows this guy. He steals all the $$$$ in big tournaments and always wins the Florida State Chess Championship! Aug-11-08    myschkin: . . . Cuban born GM <Julio Becerra-Rivero> gives some insights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXY_... (Castle Chess Interviews) Oct-14-08    OhioChessFan: Hope Chessgames gets some bio info to let us know more about the person commentating the WC match. Feb-10-09    Augalv: Introducing: Grandmaster Julio Becerra Rivero http://www.chess.com/news/introduci... May-12-09    blacksburg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXY_... Jun-02-09    hedgeh0g: "He is a GM." R U CEREAL?? Nov-05-09    Tabanus: He played in the olympiads 1994 (1st reserve), 1996 (board 3) and 1998 (board 4). Tournament win in 2009: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr233... Nov-14-09    dakgootje: According to http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/200... he just beat Nakamura in 12 moves. Not bad at all: Becerra - Nakamura 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 e5 Nd5 4 Nc3 e6 5 Nd5 ed5 6 d4 Nc6 7 dc5 Bc5 8 Qd5 d6 9 Bc4 Qe7 10 Bg5 f6 11 0-0-0 de5 12 Rhe1 Resigns Jul-13-10    strobane: What's Julio doing now? Haven't seen any of his games since last year. Oct-15-10    wordfunph: 2007 U.S. Championship: On his chess site ChessNinja.com, Mig Greengard generously offered to match up to $500 of readers' contributions to a brilliancy prize fund for the tournament. In the end, the first prize of $1,165 went to GM Julio Becerra for his win over GM Hikaru Nakamura. Mig relates that when he told Becerra of his prize, he asked "For which game?"

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