Manuel Rivas-Pastor
Number of games in database: 177
Years covered: 1977 to 2008
Highest rating achieved in database: 2505
Overall record: +31 -76 =69 (37.2%)*
   * 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:  King's Indian (11)      E90 E77 E60 E73  English, 1 c4 e5 (8)      A22 A28 A21  Queen's Indian (7)      E12 E15 E16  English (7)      A10 A11 A15 A13  Sicilian (7)      B43 B27 B40 B80 B26  Queen's Pawn Game (5)      A40 D02 E10 E00	With the Black pieces:  Queen's Pawn Game (11)      A41 A50 A45 A46  French Defense (11)      C03 C16 C10 C11 C17  Robatsch (8)      B06  English (6)      A17 A12 A16 A14  Queen's Gambit Accepted (6)      D25 D24 D23 D20 D27  Ruy Lopez, Closed (5)      C91 C88 C86 C84

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   M Rivas-Pastor vs Suba, 1980 1-0
   Sosonko vs M Rivas-Pastor, 1978 0-1

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MANUEL RIVAS-PASTOR (born Jul-13-1960) Spain [what is this?] Manuel Rivas-Pastor was born on the 13th of July 1960 in Jaen, Spain. Awarded the IM title in 1980 and the GM title in 1987 he was Spanish Champion in 1978, 1979 and 1981. He was 1st at Havana 1983, 1st at Torremolinos 1983, 1st at Salamanca 1987 and 1st= at Las Palmas 1987.

page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 177  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Yusupov vs M Rivas-Pastor   ½-½ 43 1977 Wch U20 A29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto 2. Hort vs M Rivas-Pastor   1-0 37 1978 Montilla-Moriles D23 Queen's Gambit Accepted 3. Miles vs M Rivas-Pastor   1-0 65 1978 Montilla-Moriles D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted 4. Miles vs M Rivas-Pastor   1-0 37 1978 Amsterdam (zt) 26/608 E12 Queen's Indian 5. M Rivas-Pastor vs Suba   ½-½ 77 1978 Buenos Aires B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen 6. Gligoric vs M Rivas-Pastor   1-0 50 1978 Montilla D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 7. M Rivas-Pastor vs T Wedberg   1-0 41 1978 Buenos Aires ol (Men) C50 Giuoco Piano 8. Sosonko vs M Rivas-Pastor 0-1 57 1978 Amsterdam D24 Queen's Gambit Accepted 9. M Rivas-Pastor vs Korchnoi   1-0 35 1979 Linares E12 Queen's Indian 10. M Rivas-Pastor vs Suba 1-0 43 1980 Medina Del Campo A65 Benoni, 6.e4 11. J M Hodgson vs M Rivas-Pastor   0-1 39 1980 It (b) C29 Vienna Gambit 12. M Rivas-Pastor vs Azmaiparashvili   ½-½ 42 1980 juniors E12 Queen's Indian 13. M Rivas-Pastor vs J M Bellon Lopez   ½-½ 9 1981 Malaga (Spain) C25 Vienna 14. M Rivas-Pastor vs Kupreichik 0-1 53 1981 Hastings E90 King's Indian 15. Ulf Andersson vs M Rivas-Pastor   1-0 56 1981 Hastings D56 Queen's Gambit Declined 16. M Rivas-Pastor vs Kupreichik   ½-½ 26 1981 Hastings E90 King's Indian 17. Szabo vs M Rivas-Pastor   ½-½ 41 1981 Hastings A17 English 18. Short vs M Rivas-Pastor   1-0 49 1981 Hastings B30 Sicilian 19. M Rivas-Pastor vs Ivkov   0-1 44 1981 Malaga E12 Queen's Indian 20. M Rivas-Pastor vs Tal   ½-½ 20 1981 Malaga D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 21. Christiansen vs M Rivas-Pastor 0-1 69 1981 Hastings A16 English 22. M Rivas-Pastor vs Yusupov   ½-½ 19 1982 Minsk D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 23. Speelman vs M Rivas-Pastor   ½-½ 16 1982 Hastings (England) A12 English with b3 24. Hebden vs M Rivas-Pastor   1-0 25 1982 x C17 French, Winawer, Advance 25. Balashov vs M Rivas-Pastor   ½-½ 79 1982 Minsk C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed  page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 177

Aug-15-03    pawntificator: Heck of a rating. Too bad about his record in the database...I guess that's what happens when you only play the best of the best. And when you only have your games against the bestest of the best in the database. Poor guy. Three cheers for Pastor! Hip hip! Hooray! Aug-15-03    Sylvester: Who is he? Where is he from? Aug-15-03    Ribeiro: <Sylvester> GM Manuel Rivas Pastor is from Spain. Aug-15-03    Sylvester: Thanks, Ribeiro. Aug-15-03    Ribeiro: <Sylvester> You are welcome! Aug-04-04    meloncio: GM Manuel Rivas got his top level in early 80's. He's Sevillian like me, and I remember when he got the 1981 Spanish Championship in Sevilla (!), when he was only 21 years old, and after that had several good years. Today, I know almost nothing about him, except the list on the FEDE site. May-29-06    BIDMONFA: Manuel Rivas-Pastor RIVAS, Manuel http://www.bidmonfa.com/rivas_manue... _ Jul-13-08    brankat: Happy Birthday Manuel! Oct-02-08    Ezzy: Today he has been disqualified from the Spanish Championships for refusing a doping test. He could be the very first player to suffer under the FIDE rules in this situation. Oct-02-08    matey: Bravo, Manuel Rivas-Pastor, Bravo! Oct-02-08    Ezzy: GM Manuel Rivas was disqualified from the ongoing Spanish Championship when he refused to submit to a doping test. Now, perhaps at some point there will be a substance that (a) substantially helps the performance of a chess player and (b) is dangerous and needs to be controlled, but in the meantime, what's the point? This stupid FIDE rule, which as far as I know had never previously been enforced, goes back to 1999 when FIDE had some hopes of becoming part of the Olympic movement. Since that didn't work out (chess was an exhibition sport in the Sydney Olympics in 2000, and that was the end of that), can we stop pretending chess is a real sport - or at least the sort of sport where these blood tests are relevant? The Chess Mind By Dennis Monokroussos.

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