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Charles Hidalgo

Number of games in database: 8
Years covered: 1954 to 1964
Overall record: +3 -5 =0 (37.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.


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CHARLES HIDALGO
United States of America

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. G Steven vs C Hidalgo  1-02819542nd Pan-American Chess CongressA83 Dutch, Staunton Gambit
2. C Hidalgo vs P Meyer  1-02619542nd Pan-American Chess CongressB20 Sicilian
3. C Hidalgo vs J Moskowitz  0-13219542nd Pan-American Chess CongressB03 Alekhine's Defense
4. C Hidalgo vs P Lapiken  1-033196263rd US OpenC75 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense
5. C Hidalgo vs J B Payne  0-143196263rd US OpenC80 Ruy Lopez, Open
6. C Hidalgo vs R J Irwin  1-018196263rd US OpenB92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
7. C Hidalgo vs A Sandrin  0-137196263rd US OpenB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
8. R H Steinmeyer vs C Hidalgo  1-0311964Metropolitan Chess LeagueD02 Queen's Pawn Game
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Kibitzer's Corner
Dec-08-14  zanzibar: There was a <Charles Hidalgo> who played in the <2nd PamAm Open, Hollywood (1954)>, who was from NY.

Trying to find more about this player yielded this:

<Chess Variations: Ancient, Regional, and Modern by John Gollon (1968)>

<Those wishing to obtain sets for such well-established variations as Chinese Chess may obtain them from the Chess House (House of Games, Inc.), 143 West 72nd Street, NY, NY 10023. Charles Hidalgo, owner and operator of the establishment, kindly extended permission to list him as a source of such sets, [...]>

http://books.google.com/books?id=RB...

Dec-08-14  zanzibar: Only in NYC, <Chess House> was a 24-hour joint:

http://books.google.com/books?id=j-... (~1970)

Dec-08-14  zanzibar: Sam Sloan relates a rather funny story involving Hidalgo and Woody Allen:

http://www.avlerchess.com/chess-mis...

<The reason I am recounting this event now is I am trying to figure out when Charlie Hidalgo died for a book I am working on. The Chess House went out of business not long thereafter and by 1978 Charlie had a new place on 72nd Street just a few doors west of the corner with Broadway upstairs on the south side of the Street. Frank Kuenrich, a chess expert, and New York City Scrabble Champion, was the manager.

I believe that Charlie Hidalgo died in around 1980 but I do not know exactly when. Charlie was a chess expert about 2100 strength. Charlie was crazy but his family was wealthy. His brother, Otto Hidalgo, was an important real estate broker with Ely Cruikshank Co Inc, but died in 1973. I can find Otto but cannot find Charlie listed in the Social Security Death Index. Perhaps his first name was not really Charlie.>

http://www.chessgraphics.net/jpg/wa...

Is maybe a photo of the place.

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