Roman Toran Albero
Number of games in database: 321
Years covered: 1948 to 1975
Last FIDE rating: 2445
Overall record: +95 -86 =140 (51.4%)*
   * 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 (23)      E94 E69 E74 E75 E63  Sicilian (16)      B93 B64 B45 B67 B74  English (12)      A14 A15 A16 A13  King's Indian Attack (9)      A07 A08  English, 1 c4 e5 (8)      A21 A22 A25  Ruy Lopez (8)      C90 C97 C76 C85 C96	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (52)      B32 B92 B36 B39 B90  King's Indian (38)      E94 E90 E81 E61 E97  Sicilian Dragon (18)      B36 B35 B75 B39 B72  Sicilian Najdorf (12)      B92 B90 B93 B91 B95  Ruy Lopez (11)      C66 C79 C68 C99 C64  Modern Benoni (6)      A58 A69 A76 A78

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   R Toran Albero vs O'Kelly, 1967 1-0
   Korchnoi vs R Toran Albero, 1969 0-1
   K Klundt vs R Toran Albero, 1968 1/2-1/2

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   1956 Beverwijk Hoogovens by jww

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ROMAN TORAN ALBERO (born Oct-08-1931, died Oct-01-2005) Spain [what is this?] Román Torán Albero was born in Gijón. He was Spanish champion in 1951 and 1953, and awarded the IM title in 1954. He was FIDE vice president from 1982 until 1990.

page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 321  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Jacobo Bolbochan vs R Toran Albero   ½-½ 33 1948 ARG-ESP radio m D56 Queen's Gambit Declined 2. R Toran Albero vs A M Giustolisi   ½-½ 45 1951 Madrid A07 King's Indian Attack 3. R Toran Albero vs A Pomar-Salamanca   1-0 42 1951 Madrid B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen 4. A Medina Garcia vs R Toran Albero   ½-½ 25 1951 Madrid B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 5. W Estrada Degrandi vs R Toran Albero   0-1 40 1951 San Rafael B71 Sicilian, Dragon, Levenfish Variation 6. R Toran Albero vs E Eliskases   ½-½ 48 1951 San Rafael B74 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical 7. R Toran Albero vs J Moura   1-0 36 1951 Madrid D79 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O, Main line 8. J Sanz vs R Toran Albero   ½-½ 28 1951 Madrid B93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4 9. J Canepa vs R Toran Albero   ½-½ 32 1951 San Rafael A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 10. R Toran Albero vs Pilnik   ½-½ 58 1951 Madrid D78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6 11. R Toran Albero vs J M Fuentes   1-0 64 1951 Madrid B28 Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation 12. R Toran Albero vs R Linskens   1-0 35 1951 San Rafael C12 French, McCutcheon 13. L Roux Cabral vs R Toran Albero   ½-½ 61 1951 San Rafael E90 King's Indian 14. J Llado Lumbera vs R Toran Albero   1-0 42 1951 Madrid B74 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical 15. R Toran Albero vs O Bernstein   ½-½ 23 1951 Madrid A07 King's Indian Attack 16. R Toran Albero vs Prins   0-1 49 1951 Madrid A07 King's Indian Attack 17. E Canal vs R Toran Albero   0-1 47 1951 Madrid B50 Sicilian 18. R Toran Albero vs M A Muniz Fo   1-0 36 1951 San Rafael C47 Four Knights 19. E German vs R Toran Albero   ½-½ 41 1951 San Rafael A15 English 20. Torrens vs R Toran Albero   0-1 26 1951 Madrid B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 21. R Toran Albero vs Grob   ½-½ 60 1951 Madrid A07 King's Indian Attack 22. J Mangini vs R Toran Albero   0-1 47 1951 San Rafael B10 Caro-Kann 23. F J Perez Perez vs R Toran Albero   1-0 46 1951 Madrid B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 24. R Toran Albero vs W Ader Hausman   1-0 49 1951 San Rafael A45 Queen's Pawn Game 25. L Bauza vs R Toran Albero   ½-½ 28 1951 San Rafael A48 King's Indian  page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 321

Oct-27-04    nikolaas: In Spain vs USA match in the 1958 Munich olympiadToran won against Bisguier on the third board. As soon as the American master resigned Toran said with a smile: "I am so happy, it's a nice present for my birthday!". "It's all right" - said his opponent politely - "today happens to be my birthday too"... Oct-02-05    meloncio: Roman Torán died yesterday 1st October in Madrid. Moreover what it's writen in Chessgames Biography, he was many times a main member of the spanish chess olympic team, and became a very popular man of the spanish chess world being President of the Spanish Chess Federation from 1984 to 1997. RIPA. If you can read spanish, take a look here: http://www.feda.org/index.htm Oct-06-05    WTHarvey: Here is a little collection of puzzles from Roman's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/tora.html Jan-26-06    BIDMONFA: Roman Toran Albero TORAN, Roman Died 1 october 2005 http://www.bidmonfa.com/toran_roman... _ Oct-08-09    Abdooss: <nikolaas> you are right! They really shared the same birthday.. Oct 8th.. Bisguier in 1929 and Albero in 1931.. Oct-08-09    Tabanus: There's an article in NIC 1990 no. 5. He played five times in Corus, http://www.coruschess.com/players.p... Author of "La defensa holandesa", http://ocioyajedrez.com/defensa-hol..., and "Bronstein: El Genio Del Ajedrez Moderno", Madrid 1957. FIDE vice president 1982-1990. http://www.ajedrezmarmenor.es/Jose_... Jan-05-10    Eastfrisian: As I know, his hobby was to collect stamps. Oct-08-12    bachiller: His second name, Albero, sounds like a typical spanish term, as it means both the bullring and the sand used for it.

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