Carlos Garcia-Palermo
Number of games in database: 279
Years covered: 1968 to 2009
Current FIDE rating: 2475
Highest rating achieved in database: 2550
Overall record: +79 -78 =119 (50.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      3 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Queen's Pawn Game (20)      A45 A40 A46 A41 D02  King's Indian (17)      E76 E62 E63 E60 E92  Nimzo Indian (12)      E42 E47 E52 E39 E33  Queen's Indian (10)      E12 E15 E17 E18 E14  Modern Benoni (9)      A56 A57 A77 A58 A67  Queen's Gambit Declined (9)      D37 D31 D30 D38	With the Black pieces:  Caro-Kann (26)      B12 B18 B19 B10 B13  Queen's Gambit Accepted (17)      D24 D23 D27 D21 D26  English, 1 c4 e5 (15)      A29 A20 A22 A25  Queen's Pawn Game (10)      A40 A45 A46 E00 A41  Ruy Lopez (7)      C75 C62 C95 C60 C69  Queen's Indian (6)      E17 E12 E18 E16

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Fischer vs C Garcia-Palermo, 1971 0-1
   C Garcia-Palermo vs C Herrera, 2001 1-0

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

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CARLOS GARCIA-PALERMO (born Dec-02-1953) Argentina [what is this?] Carlos H Garcia-Palermo was born on the 2nd of December 1953 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.

page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 279  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. C Garcia-Palermo vs Najdorf 1-0 61 1968 Mar del Plata A02 Bird's Opening 2. Fischer vs C Garcia-Palermo 0-1 15 1971 Simul C31 King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit 3. C Garcia-Palermo vs J Aijala   0-1 40 1975 7th Open Finnish Ch. C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense 4. C Garcia-Palermo vs H P Garcia   ½-½ 20 1975 Zarate Open A81 Dutch 5. A Lein vs C Garcia-Palermo   1-0 36 1977 open B40 Sicilian 6. C Garcia-Palermo vs J Whitehead   ½-½ 38 1977 open B36 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto 7. C Garcia-Palermo vs D Verduga   1-0 36 1977 open E27 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch Variation 8. E Formanek vs C Garcia-Palermo   ½-½ 42 1977 open C62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense 9. C Garcia-Palermo vs Quinteros   ½-½ 51 1977 Lone Pine (USA) B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 10. C Garcia-Palermo vs R Henley   ½-½ 54 1977 open A77 Benoni, Classical, 9...Re8, 10.Nd2 11. Lombardy vs C Garcia-Palermo   1-0 59 1977 Lone Pine (USA) C29 Vienna Gambit 12. W Martz vs C Garcia-Palermo   1-0 48 1977 open A10 English 13. Larry Evans vs C Garcia-Palermo   ½-½ 52 1977 open D80 Grunfeld 14. Quinteros vs C Garcia-Palermo 1-0 32 1978 10, Buenos Aires Clarin ARG A07 King's Indian Attack 15. Shamkovich vs C Garcia-Palermo   ½-½ 51 1978 Lone Pine (USA) A13 English 16. Gheorghiu vs C Garcia-Palermo   ½-½ 47 1978 Lone Pine A17 English 17. Ulf Andersson vs C Garcia-Palermo   1-0 73 1978 2, Buenos Aires Clarin ARG E17 Queen's Indian 18. J Estacolchik vs C Garcia-Palermo   0-1 37 1978 Buenos Aires op A46 Queen's Pawn Game 19. Panno vs C Garcia-Palermo   1-0 46 1978 Lone Pine E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 20. Qi Jingxuan vs C Garcia-Palermo   ½-½ 41 1978 8, Buenos Aires Clarin ARG A53 Old Indian 21. C Garcia-Palermo vs E Biaggi   1-0 56 1978 Buenos Aires op A10 English 22. Gheorghiu vs C Garcia-Palermo   ½-½ 60 1978 13, Buenos Aires Clarin ARG E12 Queen's Indian 23. C Garcia-Palermo vs Smyslov   ½-½ 41 1978 05, Buenos Aires C69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation, 6.d4 24. C Garcia-Palermo vs Janosevic   0-1 42 1978 Lone Pine A10 English 25. C Garcia-Palermo vs Panno   ½-½ 30 1978 7, Buenos Aires Clarin ARG B40 Sicilian  page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 279

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...

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