Esteban Canal
Number of games in database: 96
Years covered: 1923 to 1967
Overall record: +29 -34 =32 (47.4%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      1 exhibition game, blitz game, etc. is excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (13)      B51 B28 B80 B52 B29  French Defense (7)      C11 C13 C00 C01 C04  French (5)      C11 C13 C00  Giuoco Piano (5)      C50 C53	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (5)      B40 B91 B83  Slav (5)      D12 D19 D10  Nimzo Indian (4)      E22 E21 E34 E35  Dutch Defense (4)      A84 A91 A96

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
   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 in 1981.

page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 96  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. E Canal vs Alekhine 0-1 84 1923 Torino,Caffe Nazion C53 Giuoco Piano 2. E Canal vs Tarrasch   ½-½ 59 1923 Trieste B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen 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. Flohr vs E Canal   1-0 66 1929 Rogaska Slatina SLO C77 Ruy Lopez 7. E Canal vs K Treybal   ½-½ 39 1929 Karlsbad C50 Giuoco Piano 8. E Canal vs Colle   0-1 40 1929 Karlsbad B03 Alekhine's Defense 9. Maroczy vs E Canal   1-0 45 1929 Karlsbad B83 Sicilian 10. G A Thomas vs E Canal   0-1 57 1929 Karlsbad E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 11. E Canal vs P F Johner 1-0 27 1929 Karlsbad C50 Giuoco Piano 12. Przepiorka vs E Canal   1-0 34 1929 Rogaska Slatina SLO A47 Queen's Indian 13. E Canal vs Tartakower   ½-½ 33 1929 Karlsbad C13 French 14. Rubinstein vs E Canal 1-0 53 1929 Sauerbrunn D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 15. Colle vs E Canal   ½-½ 33 1929 Budapest A46 Queen's Pawn Game 16. Marshall vs E Canal   1-0 31 1929 Karlsbad E12 Queen's Indian 17. Nimzowitsch vs E Canal ½-½ 49 1929 Karlsbad E34 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation 18. E Canal vs Capablanca ½-½ 45 1929 Karlsbad C50 Giuoco Piano 19. E Canal vs K Joanovic   1-0 41 1929 Rogaska Slatina SLO B01 Scandinavian 20. E Canal vs Spielmann   1-0 59 1929 Karlsbad C00 French Defense 21. Rubinstein vs E Canal   ½-½ 54 1929 Budapest E35 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation, 5.cd ed 22. Samisch vs E Canal 0-1 36 1929 Rogaska Slatina SLO E10 Queen's Pawn Game 23. Gilg vs E Canal   ½-½ 45 1929 Karlsbad E15 Queen's Indian 24. Menchik vs E Canal   0-1 57 1929 Karlsbad A31 English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation 25. E Canal vs Prokes ½-½ 32 1929 Budapest C11 French  page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 96

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 :).

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