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Octavio Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida
Number of games in database: 82
Years covered: 1925 to 1954
Overall record: +26 -29 =27 (48.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Queen's Pawn Game (13) 
    A45 A40 A46 D00
 Orthodox Defense (9) 
    D53 D51 D62 D57 D64
 Nimzo Indian (4) 
    E24
With the Black pieces:
 Nimzo Indian (8) 
    E33 E38 E21 E24 E34
 Sicilian (8) 
    B40 B74 B45 B72 B70
 Orthodox Defense (5) 
    D61 D62 D64 D51
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   Trompowsky vs L Endzelins, 1936 1-0
   Trompowsky vs A Kiprov, 1936 1-0
   Trompowsky vs J Nielsen, 1936 1-0

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OCTAVIO FIGUEIRA TROMPOWSKY DE ALMEIDA
(born Nov-30-1897, died Mar-26-1984) Brazil

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Octavio Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida was was born on the 30th of November 1897 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was Brazilian Champion in 1939 and the Trompowsky Opening is named after him.

 page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 82  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Trompowsky vs R Grau  ½-½23 1925 MontevideoD06 Queen's Gambit Declined
2. H Anaya Oger vs Trompowsky  1-036 1925 MontevideoA15 English
3. Trompowsky vs S Rivas-Costa 1-038 1925 MontevideoE76 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack
4. B H Villegas vs Trompowsky  0-139 1925 MontevideoA21 English
5. Trompowsky vs L Palau  0-138 1925 MontevideoD06 Queen's Gambit Declined
6. Reti vs Trompowsky  ½-½49 1925 Rio de JaneiroD64 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
7. D Reca vs Trompowsky  1-043 1925 MontevideoD62 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
8. C H Maderna vs Trompowsky  1-042 1930 Circulo radio m corrE17 Queen's Indian
9. Trompowsky vs A Kiprov 1-038 1936 Munich ol (Men)A45 Queen's Pawn Game
10. H Muller vs Trompowsky  1-024 1936 Munich ol (Men)D46 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
11. Trompowsky vs J Nielsen 1-024 1936 Munich ol (Men)D53 Queen's Gambit Declined
12. A Staehelin vs Trompowsky  0-117 1936 Munich ol (Men)E38 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 4...c5
13. Trompowsky vs L Endzelins 1-024 1936 Munich ol (Men)A45 Queen's Pawn Game
14. Trompowsky vs R Flores-Alvarez  1-031 1938 CarrascoE24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
15. A De Oliveira vs Trompowsky  ½-½20 1938 CarrascoA47 Queen's Indian
16. Trompowsky vs W Cruz  ½-½45 1938 BRA-ch8E24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
17. W Cruz vs Trompowsky  ½-½20 1938 CarrascoD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
18. Trompowsky vs V Fenoglio  ½-½36 1938 CarrascoD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
19. Trompowsky vs W Cruz  1-054 1938 BRA-ch8D53 Queen's Gambit Declined
20. J C Balparda vs Trompowsky  0-130 1938 CarrascoE33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
21. Trompowsky vs E Rotunno  0-130 1938 CarrascoA45 Queen's Pawn Game
22. Trompowsky vs A Olivera  ½-½22 1938 CarrascoE24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
23. W Cruz vs Trompowsky  ½-½55 1938 BRA-ch8D61 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
24. Alekhine vs Trompowsky  1-038 1938 Montevideo (13)E01 Catalan, Closed
25. Trompowsky vs Letelier  ½-½24 1938 CarrascoD53 Queen's Gambit Declined
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jul-23-04   Cecil Brown: Octavio Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida is the full handle.

The originator of the opening to carry his name.
http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/jcbtro...

Jul-23-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  vonKrolock: dear <Cecil Brown>: From Rio de Janeiro (1897-1984), Brazilian Champion for 1939, played in two Olympiads, in Buenos Aires 39 he drew whith Alekhine and lost in the last round to Capablanca in what was Capa's "last tournament game" - he played the unofficail team-tournament from Munich 1936, launching then his own Opening "whith great success"; his "Selected Games", writen whith "humour and originality" is a "classic from brazilian Chess literature" (more details in www.brasilbase.pro.br/jcbtromp.htm whith photo and curriculum - from where i translate freely those infos)
Jul-23-04   Cecil Brown: <vonKrolock> Many thanks! I was struggling with the Portugese.And my above link to the Google English translation doesn't seem to work.
Aug-28-05   BaranDuin: The name Trompowsky sounds very Russian.
Did he have ancestors who came from there
Jan-05-06   BIDMONFA: Octavio Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida

TROMPOWSKY De Almeida, Octavio Figueira
http://www.bidmonfa.com/trompowsky_...
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Apr-12-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  ahmadov: <BaranDuin> I think Trompowsky is Jew because of the "w" in his surname. Russians usually use "v" in such cases.
Apr-12-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  ahmadov: Does anyone know how the Trompowsky opening is played?
Apr-12-06   Parriotblue: 1.d4; Nf6, 2.Bg5 its the moves of the Trompowsky opening.
Apr-13-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  ahmadov: <Parriotblue> Thanks a lot. You must be a master of this opening. You probably play it frequently.
Apr-13-06   JustAFish: I've been playing the Trompowky opening a lot recently and have found it to be a lot of fun.

The main line goes 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bf4 ... followed by white playing f3 (ejecting the knight) and e4. White gets great development and a massive pawn center at the slight expense of a drafty king. Black can fight back with ... c5 and pick apart white's center if white plays passively.

The main question now, for me, is what to do when black does NOT play 2 ... Ne4. If black plays ...g6 or ...d5, I usually take the knight and furiously attack black's exposed king hoping to get some other concessions in the process. The doubled pawns actually provide some protection to the castled black king, so the objective is to keep black from castling for as long as possible. If black plays 2 ...e6 I have the option of transposing into a queen's gambit declined/Nimzo-indian type formation or going full on Trompowsky with e4, which leads to interesting two edged games.

I haven't yet read a book on this opening, but intend to in the future. For now, I'm exploring the possibilities on my own.

Jun-22-06   Whitehat1963: Is this the longest name in the database?
May-16-07   Themofro: <Whitehat1963> From the lateest cg.com newsletter:

Longest name: <Count Grigory Alexandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko>, with 47 letters. However, his name is inflated somewhat with the title of "count", so arguably it should only "count" for 41 letters, in which case the winner would be none other than <Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritsky> with 43 letters.

Honorable mentions: Below is a list of other players who have names as big as their games.

<Dr. Jana Malypetrova Hartston Miles Bellin

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bonch-Osmolovsky

Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint Amant

Octavio Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida

Conrad Waldemar Vitzthum von Eckstaedt>

May-16-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Benzol: <Themofro> Surely the 'Mighty Baron' deserves a mention Baron Tassilo Heydebrand und der Lasa
May-16-07   Maatalkko: <Benzol> I'm not sure that his "name is as big as his game", since he had a pretty good game goin on.
May-17-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Benzol: <Maatalkko> Quite so!

:)

May-19-07   Themofro: <Benzol> Yes i guess he does. That was the list in the latest cg.com newletter, so i can't claim credit for it. I don't think cg.com was really serious with it's names as big as their games phrase, was just trying to be amusing. It is worth noting though that other players on the list also were quite good.

Lionel Kieseritsky was world number 1 for 23 months according to http://db.chessmetrics.com/CM2/Play..., people just always remember him for the immortal game and nothing else, sadly.

Saint Amant was number 2 behind Staunton for quite a while according to chessmetrics again, http://db.chessmetrics.com/CM2/Play... not a bad place to be.

and us course der Lasa was another of the early greats in the 19th century, just posted his chessmetrics profile on his home page if you want to look at it there.

Nov-05-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Karpova: More on the Trompowsky opening:
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...
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