Rosendo Carrean Balinas
Number of games in database: 85
Years covered: 1966 to 1995
Highest rating achieved in database: 2380
Overall record: +20 -40 =25 (38.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (15)      B23 B52 B20 B44 B96  Ruy Lopez (7)      C77 C88 C62 C69 C74  French Defense (6)      C09 C05 C04 C14 C02  French Tarrasch (4)      C09 C05 C04	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (8)      B22 B80 B51 B27 B50  Ruy Lopez (6)      C60 C95 C69 C77 C92  Queen's Indian (4)      E14 E17 E12 E16  Queen's Pawn Game (4)      A41 D02 A45

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   R C Balinas vs J Benjamin, 1978 1-0
   Larsen vs R C Balinas, 1975 0-1

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ROSENDO CARREAN BALINAS (born Sep-10-1941, died Sep-24-1998) Philippines [what is this?] Rosendo Carrean Balinas was born on the 10th of September 1941 in Manila, The Philippines. He learnt to play at age 7 but did not take up the game seriously until he was 15. Awarded the IM title in 1975 he became a GM in 1976. He has won the Philippine Open Championship 6 times and has played for the Philippines Olympiad team from 1964-76. He was 1st= with Svetozar Gligoric at the Manila Open in 1968, 3rd= in the zonal tournament in Melbourne 1975, 4th= at Dortmund 1976 and 1st at Odessa 1976. This last tourney marked the first time since Capablanca did so in 1936 that a foreign master won an international tournament in the USSR. He passed away in Antipolo City in 1998.

page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 85  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. R C Balinas vs Korchnoi   0-1 68 1966 Havana B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 2. E Keogh vs R C Balinas   ½-½ 13 1966 Havana ol final-C B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen 3. R C Balinas vs Fischer ½-½ 39 1967 Meralco B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation 4. R C Balinas vs Ivkov   0-1 40 1968 Lugano B07 Pirc 5. R C Balinas vs Korchnoi 0-1 37 1968 Lugano olm 6/459 B44 Sicilian 6. R C Balinas vs Uhlmann   0-1 42 1968 Lugano A08 King's Indian Attack 7. R C Balinas vs Gligoric   ½-½ 40 1968 Manila C93 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense 8. R C Balinas vs Filip   ½-½ 39 1968 Lugano ol (Men) B12 Caro-Kann Defense 9. Estimo Samuel vs R C Balinas 0-1 26 1968 Manila (Philippines) C58 Two Knights 10. B Enklaar vs R C Balinas   1-0 48 1974 Nice ol (Men) fin-A B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening 11. R C Balinas vs Filip   1-0 40 1974 Nice ol (Men) fin-A B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation 12. R C Balinas vs Najdorf   0-1 28 1974 Nice B20 Sicilian 13. P Garbett vs R C Balinas   1-0 42 1975 Zonal Tournament B93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4 14. Mecking vs R C Balinas   1-0 48 1975 Philippines C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed 15. R C Balinas vs Gligoric   ½-½ 49 1975 Manila B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening 16. R C Balinas vs E Torre   ½-½ 23 1975 Manila (Philippines) E82 King's Indian, Samisch, double Fianchetto Variation 17. Ljubojevic vs R C Balinas   1-0 30 1975 Manila International Tournament B32 Sicilian 18. R C Balinas vs Polugaevsky   1-0 53 1975 Manila A21 English 19. Larsen vs R C Balinas 0-1 35 1975 Manila A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack 20. E Torre vs R C Balinas 1-0 80 1975 Melbourne (Australia) C42 Petrov Defense 21. R C Balinas vs Lutikov 1-0 60 1976 Odessa C62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense 22. R C Balinas vs Savon 1-0 38 1976 Odessa A73 Benoni, Classical, 9.O-O 23. Plachetka vs R C Balinas   1-0 41 1976 Odessa B50 Sicilian 24. Romanishin vs R C Balinas   1-0 69 1976 Dortmund E20 Nimzo-Indian 25. R C Balinas vs Tarjan 1-0 26 1976 Odessa (Ukraine) B96 Sicilian, Najdorf  page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 85

Aug-28-04    WMD: "I started to play chess in my hometown of Odessa (Ukraine, former Soviet Union) in 1976 when I was 6 years old. The same year, another even more important chess event took place in Odessa, the international chess tournament won by Filipino IM Rosendo Balinas. Unfortunately, in 1976 I was still not interested in international chess events, and am hardly able now to relate anything about the 1976 Odessa International Tournament. However, in October 2000 I found «The Filipinos Play Chess» website (editor Bobby Ang), with absolutely exceptional coverage of this tournament based on the articles by Rosendo Balinas published in 1976. See links to the website and the tournament coverage in the right margin. "GM Rosendo C. Balinas, Jr. passed away at his residence in Antipolo City on Thursday, September 24, 1998. He was the six-time chess champion of the Philippines and a lawyer by profession. After winning the tournament in Odessa, Rosendo Balinas became the second foreigner after Capablanca (1936) to win a chess tournament in the Soviet Union." http://members.lycos.co.uk/csarchiv... Sep-10-07    laskereshevsky: undoubtedly Balinas was a great talent. The bio is a little wrong, cause after CAPA in the 1936, Reuben Fine has won THREE (!) tournaments after him in Sovietic Union...Moscow 1937, Leningrad 1937, Leningrad-Moscow 1939 (with Reshevsky second in this tourn...)

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