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Alfredo Olivera

Number of games in database: 131
Years covered: 1938 to 1966
Highest rating achieved in database: 2029
Overall record: +29 -71 =31 (34.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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ALFREDO OLIVERA
(born Mar-09-1908, died Apr-27-1992, 84 years old) Uruguay
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He was Uruguayan champion in 1937, 1944, 1947, 1957 and 1963.

Wikipedia article: Alfredo Olivera

Last updated: 2025-02-10 01:02:49

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 page 1 of 6; games 1-25 of 131  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A Olivera vs W O Cruz 0-1231938MontevideoD55 Queen's Gambit Declined
2. R Flores Alvarez vs A Olivera 1-0291938MontevideoD34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
3. O Trompowsky vs A Olivera  ½-½221938MontevideoE24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
4. A Olivera vs Alekhine ½-½311938MontevideoE33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
5. A Olivera vs R Grau  1-0511938MontevideoD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
6. A da Silva Rocha vs A Olivera  ½-½241938MontevideoE15 Queen's Indian
7. A Olivera vs C H Maderna  0-1401938MontevideoD46 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
8. A Olivera vs J Canepa  1-0281938MontevideoE15 Queen's Indian
9. E Rotunno vs A Olivera  ½-½241938MontevideoE16 Queen's Indian
10. V Fenoglio vs A Olivera  1-0291938MontevideoD05 Queen's Pawn Game
11. Letelier vs A Olivera  0-1301938MontevideoD23 Queen's Gambit Accepted
12. A Olivera vs J C Balparda  ½-½441938MontevideoD26 Queen's Gambit Accepted
13. A Olivera vs C Guimard  0-1241938MontevideoD50 Queen's Gambit Declined
14. R Bensadon vs A Olivera  ½-½241938MontevideoD63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
15. A Olivera vs A Salles Oliveira  ½-½221938MontevideoD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
16. L Endzelins vs A Olivera  1-0681939Buenos Aires Olympiad qual-2A13 English
17. A Olivera vs L Zavala 1-0281939Buenos Aires Olympiad qual-2E49 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Botvinnik System
18. J Salas Romo vs A Olivera  1-0361939Buenos Aires Olympiad qual-2E33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
19. A Olivera vs E Reinhardt 1-0381939Buenos Aires Olympiad qual-2E33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
20. B N Rometti vs A Olivera 0-1401939Buenos Aires Olympiad qual-2C07 French, Tarrasch
21. A Olivera vs E Karastoichev  0-1241939Buenos Aires Olympiad qual-2E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
22. W Holowach vs A Olivera  1-0431939Buenos Aires Olympiad Final-BE21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights
23. A Olivera vs A Aponte  1-0681939Buenos Aires Olympiad Final-BE00 Queen's Pawn Game
24. C Salazar vs A Olivera  0-1581939Buenos Aires Olympiad Final-BE24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
25. A Olivera vs L Zavala  1-0341939Buenos Aires Olympiad Final-BD60 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
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Kibitzer's Corner
Dec-02-08  patzer of patzers: Played in 2 Men's Chess Olympiads: in 1939, with a score of +10-5=0, and in 1966 with a score of +5-10=5.
Jul-05-14  zanzibar: No biographical info like dob, etc.?

He has a fair (52) number of games on <CG>, should have a little more info here I think.

(SCID's <spelling/rating.ssp> files also are missing dob for this player)

Ed Winters has mention of him, using the spelling as seen here - but has a contemporaneous snippet with the spelling <Oliveira>.

Might be a potential source of confusion?

(I believe there is another Brazilian player <Armando Salles Oliveira> who played in Montevideo (1938) that might mix in. Winter just flat states "for <Oliveira> read <Olivera>" without further justification. I find that unsatisfying - which player participated in Montevideo (1939)? A contemporaneous source says Oliveira - who says <Olivera>, or rather, why do they say it?)

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Jul-05-14  zanzibar: For a picture of him:

http://www.ara.org.ar/chs/ajedrez/p...

Jul-05-14  zanzibar: From the <Pan American Chess Congress (1945)> Hollywood, CA July 28-Aug 12 tournament book:

dob - March 9, 1908

Learned chess in 1924, first tournament was a national tournament with 27 competitors - in which he qualified for "first class".

Now... can anybody help me find the date he died (assuming he did)?

Jul-05-14
Premium Chessgames Member		  Troller: Larsen described him as a "cosy fatboy, who for many years won the Uruguayan Championship whenever he participated".
Feb-10-25
Premium Chessgames Member		  Fusilli: <zanzibar> I wrote to the Uruguayan Chess Federation asking about this player's date of death. I received a detailed response from Bernardo Roselli Mailhe today. I added the DOD, and will add some more biographical info.

He sent me quite a bit of information on him from a book on Uruguay's chess history. It includes a draw with Alekhine in Carrasco in 1938. Carrasco is a suburb of Montevideo, and there are games of Alekhine played in 1938 in Montevideo, but not that one. I will submit it. There are other games too. I need to check if they are on this database already.

The photo you found is the Uruguay team at the 1939 olympiad in Buenos Aires. Roselli sent me that photo and another one of Olivera alone.

Maybe I'll get that book. It seems to have a bounty of info on Uruguay's players.

Feb-10-25
Premium Chessgames Member		  Fusilli: <zanzibar> Sorry, the draw with Alekhine <is> in this database. I overlooked it.

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