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Rodrigo Flores Alvarez
R Flores Alvarez 
 

Number of games in database: 233
Years covered: 1927 to 1965
Overall record: +82 -64 =86 (53.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 1 exhibition game, blitz/rapid, odds game, etc. is excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (21) 
    B93 B28 B73 B92 B43
 Ruy Lopez (17) 
    C86 C75 C64 C93 C97
 French Defense (9) 
    C14 C12 C02 C18 C01
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (8) 
    C86 C84 C94 C97 C93
 Queen's Gambit Declined (8) 
    D37 D39 D35 D06
 King's Indian (7) 
    E72 E79 E67 E94 E61
With the Black pieces:
 Grunfeld (27) 
    D94 D97 D85 D81 D72
 King's Indian (17) 
    E70 E73 E67 E60 E62
 French Defense (15) 
    C00 C02 C14 C07 C15
 Sicilian (8) 
    B92 B42 B76 B98 B96
 Queen's Pawn Game (6) 
    D02 D05 E10 D04 E00
 French (5) 
    C00 C12
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   G Camara vs R Flores Alvarez, 1937 0-1
   R Flores Alvarez vs M Czerniak, 1939 1-0
   A Pons vs R Flores Alvarez, 1936 0-1
   Fischer vs R Flores Alvarez, 1959 1/2-1/2
   R Flores Alvarez vs Letelier, 1944 1-0
   P Michel vs R Flores Alvarez, 1939 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   South American Championship (1937)
   Mar del Plata Zonal (1951)
   Santiago (1957)
   Sao Paulo Zonal (1960)
   Mar del Plata (1949)
   Santiago (1959)
   Montevideo (1938)
   Mar del Plata (1936)
   Mar del Plata (1944)
   Buenos Aires Olympiad qual-2 (1939)
   Dubrovnik Olympiad (1950)
   Buenos Aires Olympiad Final-A (1939)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Santiago 1959 by suenteus po 147


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RODRIGO FLORES ALVAREZ
(born Aug-23-1913, died Jan-17-2007, 93 years old) Chile

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Rodrigo Flores Alvarez was born in Santiago, Chile. He was Chilean champion eleven times: 1931, 1935, 1938, 1941, 1944, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1961 and 1965. He was South American champion at Sao Paulo 1937 [brasilbase-1]. In 1947, he won the Marshall Chess Club Championship.

Wikipedia article: Rodrigo Flores


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 page 1 of 10; games 1-25 of 233  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. R Flores Alvarez vs M Castillo  1-0421927SantiagoB23 Sicilian, Closed
2. R Flores Alvarez vs M Castillo  1-0341927SantiagoC01 French, Exchange
3. R Flores Alvarez vs L Palau 1-0461927Casual gameC55 Two Knights Defense
4. Alekhine vs R Flores Alvarez 1-0611927SimulC07 French, Tarrasch
5. Alekhine vs R Flores Alvarez 1-0331927Simul, 30bD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
6. R Flores Alvarez vs A Conejeros 1-0211930CHI-chC56 Two Knights
7. R Charlier vs R Flores Alvarez  ½-½301936Mar del PlataA91 Dutch Defense
8. R Flores Alvarez vs M Castillo  ½-½301936Mar del PlataC48 Four Knights
9. J Vinuesa vs R Flores Alvarez  1-0351936Mar del PlataE00 Queen's Pawn Game
10. R Flores Alvarez vs B H Villegas  0-1501936Mar del PlataD24 Queen's Gambit Accepted
11. J C Balparda vs R Flores Alvarez 0-1311936Mar del PlataA48 King's Indian
12. R Flores Alvarez vs I Pleci  0-1371936Mar del PlataD02 Queen's Pawn Game
13. J Traian Iliesco vs R Flores Alvarez 0-1431936Mar del PlataE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
14. R Flores Alvarez vs A Schwartzman  ½-½331936Mar del PlataE34 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation
15. J Bolbochan vs R Flores Alvarez  ½-½411936Mar del PlataD47 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
16. L Piazzini vs R Flores Alvarez 1-0251936Mar del PlataD46 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
17. R Flores Alvarez vs V Fenoglio  ½-½421936Mar del PlataB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
18. C Guimard vs R Flores Alvarez 0-1231936Mar del PlataD72 Neo-Grunfeld, 5.cd, Main line
19. R Flores Alvarez vs Letelier 0-1311936Mar del PlataD17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
20. A Pons vs R Flores Alvarez 0-1341936Mar del PlataC00 French Defense
21. R Flores Alvarez vs C Hounie Fleurquin  1-0551936Mar del PlataD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
22. R Flores Alvarez vs A da Silva Rocha  1-0301937South American ChampionshipD39 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin, Vienna Variation
23. J Salas Romo vs R Flores Alvarez  0-1371937South American ChampionshipD81 Grunfeld, Russian Variation
24. G Camara vs R Flores Alvarez 0-1111937South American ChampionshipA51 Budapest Gambit
25. R Flores Alvarez vs Letelier  0-1401937South American ChampionshipC83 Ruy Lopez, Open
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Kibitzer's Corner
Dec-29-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  Benzol: Rodrigo Flores Alvarez
Born 23rd August 1913 in Santiago
Chilean champion in 1931, 1935, 1941, 1944, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1961 and 1965.
Feb-02-07  juccal: Legendary player Rodrigo Flores passed away last january 17 at 93, brilliant engineer was member of the Chilean science academy and many years teacher at Universidad de Chile. Eleven times Chilean champion the most succesfull champ ever, played with most world Champions from Capablanca to Fischer. A very consistent player belongs to the brilliant generation of players that also included Mariano Castillo, Rene Letelier and Enrique Reed among others. Rest in peace master, i bet you are playing with Rene and Mariano in eternity.
Aug-23-08  brankat: R.I.P. Senor Alvarez.
May-17-09  Karpova: Edward Winter's feature article "The Chess Prodigy Rodrigo Flores" from 2003: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...
Aug-23-12  brankat: A multi-talented man and a fine character, Dr.Flores-Alvarez.
Jun-17-14  zanzibar: A nice obit (in Spanish) here:

http://sertal.blogspot.com/2007/02/...

There is a nice 3-picture view of him as youthful, middle-aged, and old-aged man.

<He left established an almost insurmountable brand, eleven national chess titles: 1931, 1935, 1938, 1941, 1944, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1961 and 1965 participated in three World Olympics representing Chile, 1939 in Buenos Aires 1950 in Dubrovnik (ex-Yugoslavia) and 1956 in Moscow.>

For the record: <Benzol> apparently omitted 1938, 1951, and 1952 championships (but not the bio - see above).

Aug-23-17  lentil: Such successes but no title?
Aug-23-19  BIDMONFA: Rodrigo Flores Alvarez

FLORES, Rodrigo
http://www.bidmonfa.com/flores_rodr...
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Aug-23-19  Caissanist: <lentil>: For most of the 20th century you had to play in international events to get a title, and Flores appears to have played very little outside of Chile. There were a lot of very strong players in those years who never got the chance to gain a title for that reason.
Aug-23-19  Damenlaeuferbauer: This little-known Chilean man, who played almost only in South America, drew late J. R. Capablanca (at Buenos Aires in 1939) and early R. J. Fischer (at Santiago de Chile in 1959), the two world champions, who lost the fewest games in their life - this is really very impressive. Would he have won against both (only four players in the history of chess achieved that), he would be world-famous!

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