Sabino Brunello
Number of games in database: 287
Years covered: 2003 to 2013
Last FIDE rating: 2615
Highest rating achieved in database: 2617
Overall record: +134 -73 =80 (60.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (26)      B30 B90 B43 B48 B36  Queen's Pawn Game (13)      E00 A45 A41 A40 A50  Slav (12)      D11 D15 D12 D10 D17  King's Indian (11)      E60 E61 E83 E64 E69  Grunfeld (10)      D85 D71 D96 D79 D76  English (8)      A13 A15 A14 A11	With the Black pieces:  Ruy Lopez (22)      C84 C89 C77 C91 C96  Caro-Kann (16)      B18 B10 B13 B11 B12  Slav (15)      D10 D16 D12 D18 D14  Ruy Lopez, Closed (14)      C84 C89 C91 C96 C97  Sicilian (14)      B40 B48 B44 B20 B51  Queen's Indian (9)      E15 E12 E18 E17

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   F Guido vs S Brunello, 2007 0-1
   S Brunello vs S Malikentzos, 2012 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   37th Chess Olympiad (2006)
   World Junior Championship (2006)
   Bratto Festival (2007)
   48th World Junior Championship (2009)
   Chess Olympiad (2010)
   European Individual Championships (2010)
   13th European Individual Championship (2012)
   Tradewise Gibraltar (2012)
   Chess Olympiad (2012)
   European Individual Championships (2013)
   Politiken Cup (2013)
   Tata Steel (Group C) (2013)

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SABINO BRUNELLO (born Jul-26-1989) Italy [what is this?] FIDE awarded Brunello the Grandmaster title in 2010. He won the Tata Steel (Group C) (2013) with an 11/13 score, one of the best performances in the 75-year history of the Wijk aan Zee tournament. An excellent 7.5/11 result in the European Individual Championships (2013) qualified him to play in the World Cup (2013), but he lost to Pavel Eljanov in the first round and was eliminated from the contest. He is the author of the book "Attacking the Spanish" (2009).

page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 287  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. S Brunello vs B Belotti   ½-½ 30 2003 Intel Pentium4 B05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern 2. S Brunello vs L Lenic   0-1 52 2004 Wch U16 B30 Sicilian 3. N Yap vs S Brunello   0-1 30 2005 BELFORT YWCC Boys Under 16 C77 Ruy Lopez 4. S Brunello vs Mikhalchishin   0-1 47 2005 Mitropa Cup C45 Scotch Game 5. M Huerga Leache vs S Brunello   1-0 64 2005 BELFORT YWCC Boys Under 16 C89 Ruy Lopez, Marshall 6. S Brunello vs T Kett   1-0 35 2005 21st European Club Cup B35 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Modern Variation with Bc4 7. S Brunello vs R Rehberg   1-0 17 2005 BELFORT YWCC Boys Under 16 B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 8. A Kveinys vs S Brunello   1-0 45 2005 19th Pula Open E05 Catalan, Open, Classical line 9. T H Toufighi vs S Brunello   ½-½ 62 2005 BELFORT YWCC Boys Under 16 C47 Four Knights 10. P Makoli vs S Brunello   1-0 31 2005 21st European Club Cup A46 Queen's Pawn Game 11. S Brunello vs R Edouard   ½-½ 42 2005 BELFORT YWCC Boys Under 16 B36 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto 12. J Jansson vs S Brunello   1-0 30 2005 21st European Club Cup A03 Bird's Opening 13. S Brunello vs I Brener   ½-½ 42 2005 BELFORT YWCC Boys Under 16 B30 Sicilian 14. S Brunello vs T Luukkonen   1-0 40 2005 21st European Club Cup B30 Sicilian 15. S Brunello vs James Cronan   1-0 36 2005 BELFORT YWCC Boys Under 16 B01 Scandinavian 16. V Novikov vs S Brunello   1-0 56 2005 21st European Club Cup C69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation, 6.d4 17. S Brunello vs Vallejo-Pons   0-1 29 2005 21st European Club Cup B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 18. V Krishnamoorthy vs S Brunello   ½-½ 50 2005 BELFORT YWCC Boys Under 16 C47 Four Knights 19. S Brunello vs A Gunnarsson   0-1 81 2005 21st European Club Cup C45 Scotch Game 20. S Brunello vs M Poulsen   1-0 48 2006 37th Chess Olympiad C02 French, Advance 21. S Brunello vs L Shytaj   ½-½ 17 2006 Reggio Emilia B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 22. N Ronchetti vs S Brunello 0-1 77 2006 Montecatini Terme A18 English, Mikenas-Carls 23. E Valeanu vs S Brunello   0-1 32 2006 World Junior Championship C69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation, 6.d4 24. M Tratar vs S Brunello   0-1 33 2006 Triest Open E18 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 7.Nc3 25. F Bellini vs S Brunello   1-0 52 2006 37th Chess Olympiad C53 Giuoco Piano  page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 287

Feb-13-07    Octavia: Sabino is coming to Scotland - how old is he? Jun-21-07    BIDMONFA: Sabino Brunello BRUNELLO, Sabino http://www.bidmonfa.com/brunello_sa... _ May-08-10    notyetagm: A *beautiful* combination: http://www.chessbase.com/cbm/reeh20... <(1) Bellini,Fabio - Brunello,Sabino [B51] 42. CIS Master Arvier (Ao), 30.04.2010 [Reeh,Oliver]> Nov-11-10    GrahamClayton: Finally a GM and author of "Attacking the Spanish": http://www.ukgamesshop.com/Merchant... Jan-27-13    Karposian: Winner of Tata Steel C-group 2013. Bravo Sabino!! E forza Italia!! Jan-27-13    Karpova: Impressive win with 11/13 (+9 =4 -0): Tata Steel (Group C) (2013) Performance of 2764 (http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...) Jul-28-13    SimonWebbsTiger: Sabino must have had some birthday luck his way. In round 1 of the Politiken Cup (28 July) 2013, he won an endgame despite the material being rook and four pawns versus his rook and bishop! Aug-06-13    Karpova: In Fabiano's shadow, he has established himself as Italy's 2nd best player and with another strong showing at Politiken Cup (2013) with a 7th place (places 2-8 shared 8.0/10 points - http://www.ksu.dk/politiken_cup/tur... -) with a score of +8 =0 -2 and a performance of 2627 - http://chess-results.com/tnr81987.a... His new rating will be 2602 according to the official site http://www.ksu.dk/politiken_cup/tur...

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