Ion Balanel
Number of games in database: 60
Years covered: 1951 to 1958
Overall record: +13 -21 =26 (43.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  King's Indian (9)      E80 E81 E90 E89 E91  Nimzo Indian (5)      E32 E38 E26 E20  Ruy Lopez (5)      C84 C74 C87 C90  Ruy Lopez, Closed (4)      C84 C87 C90	With the Black pieces:  French Defense (6)      C01 C05 C07 C17 C15  Nimzo Indian (5)      E48 E42 E41 E53 E40  English, 1 c4 c5 (4)      A34 A36

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ION BALANEL (born Jun-07-1926) Romania [what is this?] Ion Balanel was born in Bucharest, Romania. Awarded the IM title in 1954 he was Romanian champion in 1950, 1953, 1955 and 1958. In 1958 he was virtually excommunicated from his club Dinamo and put in a lunatic asylum by the communist regime.

page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 60  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Balanel vs J A Fred   ½-½ 64 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha E90 King's Indian 2. Balanel vs Lokvenc   1-0 34 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha E80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation 3. Balanel vs Benko   0-1 59 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha D50 Queen's Gambit Declined 4. Balanel vs A Tsvetkov   1-0 57 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 5. Szabo vs Balanel 1-0 25 1951 Marianske Lazne Prah C05 French, Tarrasch 6. Pachman vs Balanel   1-0 47 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha E41 Nimzo-Indian 7. Stoltz vs Balanel   1-0 53 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha A34 English, Symmetrical 8. G Barcza vs Balanel   ½-½ 63 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha A07 King's Indian Attack 9. Sajtar vs Balanel   ½-½ 35 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha E85 King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox Variation 10. Balanel vs Foltys   ½-½ 25 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha D22 Queen's Gambit Accepted 11. Balanel vs O Barda   ½-½ 43 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 12. Balanel vs A Pytlakowski 0-1 24 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 13. Balanel vs W Heidenfeld   ½-½ 20 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha A52 Budapest Gambit 14. S Basjuni vs Balanel   1-0 60 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha A34 English, Symmetrical 15. E Pedersen vs Balanel   ½-½ 46 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha C01 French, Exchange 16. K Skold vs Balanel 1-0 66 1951 Marianske Lazne - Praha C17 French, Winawer, Advance 17. Balanel vs M Bobotsov   0-1 41 1952 Miedzyzdroje E80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation 18. Balanel vs Sliwa   1-0 66 1952 Miedzyzdroje D22 Queen's Gambit Accepted 19. Balanel vs S Szabo 1-0 78 1952 Miedzyzdroje E26 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch 20. K Makarczyk vs Balanel   0-1 66 1952 Miedzyzdroje E42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein) 21. Sliwa vs Balanel   0-1 44 1954 Bucharest E48 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5 22. Korchnoi vs Balanel 1-0 54 1954 Bucharest A34 English, Symmetrical 23. Balanel vs V Ciocaltea   ½-½ 66 1954 Bucharest E81 King's Indian, Samisch 24. Balanel vs Filip   0-1 40 1954 Prague zt D91 Grunfeld, 5.Bg5 25. G Kluger vs Balanel   0-1 103 1954 Prague zt E91 King's Indian  page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 60

Dec-21-04    Benzol: Ion Balanel Born 7th June 1926 in Bucharest Awarded the IM title in 1954 and was Romainian champion in 1950, 1953, 1955 and 1958. Sep-19-10    Peligroso Patzer: Although he ended up losing, Balanel played a wonderful game against Larsen in today's GotD: Balanel vs Larsen, 1956.

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