Esteban Canal
Number of games in database: 102
Years covered: 1923 to 1967
Overall record: +30 -36 =35 (47.0%)*
   * 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 (12)      B51 B80 B28 B40 B52  French Defense (7)      C13 C11 C00 C04 C01  French (5)      C13 C11 C00  Giuoco Piano (5)      C50 C53	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (5)      B40 B91 B83  Slav (5)      D12 D19 D10  Queen's Pawn Game (4)      D02 A46 E10 A50  Nimzo Indian (4)      E34 E22 E21 E35  Dutch Defense (4)      A84 A96 A91

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   E Canal vs NN, 1934 1-0
   NN vs E Canal, 1935 0-1
   E Canal vs Schmid, 1953 1-0
   E Canal vs P F Johner, 1929 1-0
   Samisch vs E Canal, 1929 0-1

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ESTEBAN CANAL (born Apr-19-1896, died Feb-14-1981) Peru [what is this?] Esteban Canal was born on the 19th of April 1896 in Chiclayo, Peru. Awarded the IM title in 1950 he became an Emeritus GM in 1977. He lived the first 26 years of his life in Peru but from 1923 onwards he was domiciled in Italy. In 1933, he won the Hungarian championship. He was 2nd= at Meran in 1926 and 1st at Budapest in 1933. He also lead the Peruvian team at the 1950 Olympiad in Dubrovnik scoring (+1, =6, -8). He passed away in Varese, Italy in 1981.

page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 102  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. E Canal vs Tarrasch   ½-½ 59 1923 Trieste B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen 2. E Canal vs Alekhine 0-1 84 1923 Torino,Caffe Nazion C53 Giuoco Piano 3. E Canal vs P F Johner 1-0 30 1923 Trieste (Italy) C56 Two Knights 4. Spielmann vs E Canal   0-1 36 1926 03, Meran B40 Sicilian 5. E Canal vs Gruenfeld   0-1 41 1926 Merano A47 Queen's Indian 6. Przepiorka vs E Canal   1-0 39 1926 Merano D02 Queen's Pawn Game 7. E Canal vs Capablanca ½-½ 45 1929 Karlsbad C50 Giuoco Piano 8. Marshall vs E Canal   1-0 31 1929 Karlsbad E12 Queen's Indian 9. E Canal vs Spielmann   1-0 59 1929 Karlsbad C00 French Defense 10. E Canal vs K Joanovic   1-0 41 1929 Rogaska Slatina SLO B01 Scandinavian 11. Nimzowitsch vs E Canal ½-½ 49 1929 Karlsbad E34 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation 12. Bogoljubov vs E Canal ½-½ 43 1929 Karlsbad (Czech Republic) B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation 13. Rubinstein vs E Canal 1-0 53 1929 Sauerbrunn D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 14. E Canal vs A Becker 1-0 43 1929 Karlsbad C50 Giuoco Piano 15. Gilg vs E Canal   ½-½ 45 1929 Karlsbad E15 Queen's Indian 16. Samisch vs E Canal 0-1 36 1929 Rogaska Slatina SLO E10 Queen's Pawn Game 17. Euwe vs E Canal 1-0 32 1929 Karlsbad E22 Nimzo-Indian, Spielmann Variation 18. E Canal vs Samisch ½-½ 31 1929 Karlsbad C11 French 19. H Geiger vs E Canal   ½-½ 39 1929 Rogaska Slatina SLO A47 Queen's Indian 20. Menchik vs E Canal   0-1 57 1929 Karlsbad A31 English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation 21. E Canal vs Prokes ½-½ 32 1929 Budapest C11 French 22. Rubinstein vs E Canal   ½-½ 54 1929 Budapest E35 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation, 5.cd ed 23. E Canal vs Gruenfeld   ½-½ 64 1929 Karlsbad B03 Alekhine's Defense 24. E Canal vs Yates   0-1 58 1929 Karlsbad B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein 25. E Canal vs A Brinckmann   ½-½ 65 1929 Rogaska Slatina SLO C41 Philidor Defense  page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 102

May-12-04    Lawrence: IT'S NEVER TOO LATE. Esteban Canal (1896-1981) became the first Peruvian GM.....at the age of 81. Lived most of his life in the enchantingly beautiful city of Venice, and there's a chessclub there named after him. May-12-04    iron maiden: Is he the oldest player to recieve the GM title? (I'm talking about the age at which the player actually earned the title, not someone who, say, got it at 20 and then lived to 90.) May-12-04    Benzol: Esteban Canal Born 19th April 1896 Chiclayo Died 14th February Varese Became an IM in 1950 and Emeritus GM in 1977. He was also Hungarian champion in 1933. May-12-04    Benzol: My previous post should have said Died 14th February 1981. Honza told me Jaques Mieses was the oldest player to be awarded the GM title. At the time I thought it was Geza Maroczy. Dec-27-04    DanielBryant: Didn't Mario Monticelli receive it fairly late? Mar-22-05    Karpova: Canal had once been in a tramway and bumped into a lady. he was probably lost in thought and said "j'adoube". he was quite surprised when the lady answered: "oh, you are a chessplayer. then you should know that you have to say j'adoube first!" Mar-23-05    ughaibu: I wonder if she'd been stalking him? Mar-23-05    Karpova: <Daniel Bryant> yes, Mario Monticelli became GM in 1985 Apr-19-06    BIDMONFA: Esteban Canal CANAL, Esteban http://www.bidmonfa.com/canal_esteb... _ Sep-15-07    pastpawn: <Lawrence: ... Lived most of his life in the enchantingly beautiful city of Venice> It's funny that someone with a name like Canal would live in Venice :). Jun-05-08    Tabanus: Inventor of the "Canal gambit", 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 c5 5.cxd5 Qb6?!, something to consider in OTB play :) Sep-07-08    GrahamClayton: Canal left Peru as a 13 year-old student and travelled all around Europe, spending time in Spain, France and Belgium before arriving in Germany in 1914. He learned chess there and became the champion of Leipzig in 1916. Source: David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld, "Oxford Companion to Chess", 2nd edition, OUP, 1992 Nov-10-08    Karpova: Pictures of Esteban Canal's and his wife's (Anna Klupacs) grave in Cocquio Trevisago, Italy presented in Winter's C.N. 5831: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... Nov-10-08    brankat: The gravestone has 1893 as E.Canal's year of birth, "official" Bio 1896. Winter's note also says that, in private, Canal used to say he had been born "before 1896, in Spain, not Peru". Feb-15-09    WhiteRook48: let's go down the Esteban! Even though it's not a real Canal Apr-19-09    laskereshevsky: A well respect player. Between the grand masters he was a great estimator of Lasker, wich whome he shared a lot of opinions about life and chess, siping togheter good beers... A personal friend of Capablanca, and a very ironical "persecutor" of Nimtzovich... But for me the most he was a really fantastic chess-games commentator..... To pass-through a game commentated by him, its like to read "novellas" (short stories in good english..) wrotes by the greatest letteracture's writers. At Memoriam, Maestro Esteban... Oct-16-09    Caissanist: Solis Felipe Pinzon wrote a 1987 memoir with a long and interesting chapter on Canal, with many games not included here. In Spanish: http://members.fortunecity.es/unich...

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