Walter Arencibia
Number of games in database: 515
Years covered: 1984 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2201
Highest rating achieved in database: 2579
Overall record: +188 -119 =206 (56.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      2 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Queen's Gambit Declined (20)      D37 D38 D36 D31 D35  Sicilian (19)      B22 B40 B92 B67 B46  Modern Benoni (16)      A57 A69 A56 A68 A58  Nimzo Indian (16)      E25 E20 E32 E48 E40  King's Indian (15)      E76 E94 E92 E77 E86  Queen's Pawn Game (14)      A46 E00 A45 A41 D04	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (43)      B42 B43 B51 B90 B93  French Defense (27)      C05 C16 C02 C18 C17  Ruy Lopez (19)      C78 C67 C98 C92 C65  King's Indian (18)      E97 E62 E76 E90 E61  Sicilian Kan (17)      B42 B43 B41  Queen's Pawn Game (14)      D02 D00 A40 A46 A45

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   J Klinger vs W Arencibia, 1986 0-1
   W Arencibia vs Granda-Zuniga, 1986 1-0
   W Arencibia vs Jobava, 2005 1-0
   J Linan Baena vs W Arencibia, 2001 0-1

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   2011 Quebec invitational by gauer

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WALTER ARENCIBIA (born Jul-21-1967) Cuba [what is this?] Walter Arencibia was born in Cuba in 1967. He learned chess at the age of eight and has won various tournaments, including the 1986 World Junior Chess Championship. Other tournament victories include the Cuban Youth Championships in 1985, tying for 1st at the Canadian open in 2006 with Abhijit Kunte & in 2011, he again tied for 1st-3rd with Joel Benjamin & Dejan Bojkov in the Canadian open. He has also represented Cuba at many Chess Olympiads from 1986 to 2006. He is a FT and he became a GM in 1990. He won the Cuban championship in 1986 and 1990. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter...

page 1 of 21; games 1-25 of 515  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. W Arencibia vs L Bueno Perez   1-0 43 1984 Capablanca mem-B D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 2. F Braga vs W Arencibia   1-0 26 1984 10s, CUB B22 Sicilian, Alapin 3. R Hernandez vs W Arencibia   ½-½ 115 1985 Havana-B D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 4. W Arencibia vs Dlugy   0-1 54 1985 Havana-B B56 Sicilian 5. L Ortega vs W Arencibia   1-0 29 1985 Havana-B A09 Reti Opening 6. Vaisser vs W Arencibia   1-0 41 1985 Havana-B D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 7. W Arencibia vs S Garcia Martinez   ½-½ 10 1985 Havana-B B04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern 8. K Frey Beckman vs W Arencibia   0-1 50 1985 Havana-B D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 9. W Arencibia vs M Knezevic   0-1 51 1985 Havana-B A10 English 10. W Arencibia vs V Zaltsman   0-1 39 1985 Havana II A13 English 11. W Arencibia vs E Pigusov   ½-½ 21 1985 Havana-B A07 King's Indian Attack 12. J L Vilela vs W Arencibia   1-0 32 1985 Havana-B A09 Reti Opening 13. W Arencibia vs C Garcia Palermo   0-1 38 1985 Havana-B A25 English 14. A Barreras vs W Arencibia   ½-½ 24 1985 Havana-B D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 15. W Arencibia vs Anand ½-½ 54 1986 Gausdal D29 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical 16. W Arencibia vs Granda-Zuniga 1-0 26 1986 Gausdal A53 Old Indian 17. E Rojas vs W Arencibia   ½-½ 53 1986 Wch U20 A84 Dutch 18. W Arencibia vs S Agdestein   1-0 40 1986 Wch U20 E25 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch 19. W Arencibia vs P Motwani 0-1 26 1986 Dubai ol (Men) A52 Budapest Gambit 20. P Staniszewski vs W Arencibia   0-1 49 1986 Wch U20 D89 Grunfeld 21. W Arencibia vs R Saunders   ½-½ 18 1986 Wch U20 A57 Benko Gambit 22. W Arencibia vs J Howell   1-0 61 1986 Wch U20 A68 Benoni, Four Pawns Attack 23. M Schlosser vs W Arencibia   0-1 26 1986 Wch U20 C06 French, Tarrasch 24. Hecht vs W Arencibia   1-0 31 1986 Dubai ol (Men) A15 English 25. W Arencibia vs D Barua   ½-½ 35 1986 Wch U20 D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted  page 1 of 21; games 1-25 of 515    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Arencibia wins | Arencibia loses

Apr-12-04    Bitzovich: Wow, one of the few GMs i got to meet becomes player of the day. Actually, i got one of my games annotated by him (for quite a bit of money).. i just remember the way i couldn't understand a word of what he was saying :) (he has this really strong accent) Jul-21-06    rustamrocks: Happy birthday Walter. Nice way to celebrate (by beating Evgeny Bareev)! Jul-21-06    BIDMONFA: Walter Arencibia ARENCIBIA, Walter http://www.bidmonfa.com/arencibia_w... _ Jul-21-07    chessgames.com: To celebrate Walter's birthday, we just uploaded over 200 new games. Jul-21-07    brankat: W.Arencibia must be a phenomenon. According to his Bio, born in 1987, won the World Junior Championship in 1986 :-) Jul-21-07    Akuni: <Brankat> it says 1967 as well. So not only did he become a grandmaster before he was born, but he was born twice. Aug-03-07    MindCtrol9: Everybody liked him at the Pupo's Academy,in Holguin,Cuba.I used to play there when he was a child.Walter.I am Octavio Salazar.Im very proud of you,my friend.I do hope to shake your hand next year as well as other good players like Adelkis Remon,Pupo the teacher and many others.Congratulations!!! Jul-21-10    wordfunph: Cuban GM sporting a 2491 elo and a peak of 2573.. http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?ev... happy birthday Walter! Jul-21-10    nanobrain: Hey, when's the birthday of my other favorite player, IM Ciprian-Costica Nanu? Jul-21-10    Stonehenge: Happy Birthday :) Jul-21-12    LoveThatJoker: Happy Birthday, GM Arencibia! LTJ

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