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Alan Trefler

Number of games in database: 5
Years covered: 1975 to 1988
Overall record: +4 -1 =0 (80.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.


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ALAN TREFLER
(born Mar-10-1956, 69 years old) United States of America

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In 1975, as a 19-year-old expert, Alan Trefler achieved one of the most stunning upsets in chess history by tying for first at the World Open with GM Pal Benko (who won on tiebreak). He became a National Master as a result, but his last published USCF rating, in 1990, was 2197. After college, he founded a successful software company, Pegasystems, of which he is still CEO, and became a billionaire.

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Last updated: 2022-11-24 14:14:33

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. L Lipking vs A Trefler 0-12619753rd World OpenC12 French, McCutcheon
2. J Frankle vs A Trefler  0-15219753rd World OpenC02 French, Advance
3. A Trefler vs M Rohde 1-03919753rd World OpenA67 Benoni, Taimanov Variation
4. A Trefler vs J Kaplan 1-04419753rd World OpenE84 King's Indian, Samisch, Panno Main line
5. R Stone vs A Trefler  1-024198889th US OpenA95 Dutch, Stonewall
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Kibitzer's Corner
May-03-05  Resignation Trap: Alan Trefler tied for first with Pal Benko at the 1975 World Open. His prize of $2,250 was barely enough to pay for a semester at Dartmouth. He is now CEO at Pegasystems: http://www.pega.com/AboutPega/Manag...
Oct-05-07  Maynard5: For anyone interested in automated business systems, Alan Trefler's company is one of the top firms in the field. Here is some information from the company website:

Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leader in Business Process Management, provides software to drive revenue growth, productivity, and agility for the world's most sophisticated organizations. Customers use our award-winning SmartBPM® suite to improve customer service, reach new markets, and boost operational effectiveness.

Pegasystems' patented SmartBPM technology makes enterprise applications easy to build and change by directly capturing business objectives and eliminating manual programming. SmartBPM unifies business rules and processes into composite applications that leverage existing systems — empowering businesspeople and IT staff to Build for Change®, deliver value quickly, and outperform their competitors.

Pegasystems’ suite is complemented by best-practice frameworks designed for leaders in financial services, insurance, healthcare, government, life sciences, communications, manufacturing, and other industries.

Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Pegasystems has regional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Visit us at www.pega.com (or www.pegasystems.com).

Since 1983, Pegasystems has been a pioneer in rules-based Business Process Management (BPM) technology and is now a leader in the industry.

Business rules are the practices, processes, and procedures that define how a company does business; they are an important asset that differentiates enterprises in the marketplace. Pegasystems' patented rules technology allows companies to aggregate their diverse business practices and lets business managers rapidly implement change across the enterprise and over the Web.

Blue-chip companies in financial services, healthcare, and insurance turn to Pegasystems to streamline business processes, to quickly and easily adapt to changing market conditions, and to realize significant returns on investment.

Alan Trefler, Pegasystems' Founder, Chairman, and CEO, has guided the Company's technology vision. This vision has repeatedly positioned Pegasystems on the forefront of industry trends — often well before these trends have become widely accepted in the marketplace. Mr. Trefler's early experiences teaching computers how to play chess provide the intellectual foundation for his thinking on the importance of rules and automated decision-making.

Mar-23-13  wordfunph: <In 1975, as a 19 year-old expert, Alan Trefler caused a sensation at the World Open tournament by tying for first with GM Pal Benko.>

with a pre-tournament rating of 2045, he scored an incredible 8/9!

Apr-26-14  Sourav: I met Alan in June last year at Pega WORLD, which is an annual conference that Pegasystems organizes for its partners and clients.
Nov-01-16  Caissanist: With an estimated net worth of $1 billion, Trefler is one of two known billionaires in the Chessgames database, the other being Peter Thiel .
Nov-01-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  tpstar: <billionaires> An interesting category.

Bill Gates

Joop van Oosterom

*****

Honorable Mention:

Fidel Castro $900 million

David Letterman $400 million

Sting $300 million

Nov-01-16  Caissanist: Thanks, I stand corrected.
Nov-01-16  todicav23: There were rumors that Karpov is also a billionaire.
Feb-21-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  Telemus: Only one game despite his sensational success?

[Event "World Open"]
[Site "New York, USA"]
[Date "1975.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Lepking"]
[Black "Alan Trefler"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C12"]
[Sources "Boston Globe, 3 August 1975"]

1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e5 h6 6. exf6 hxg5 7. fxg7 Rg8 8. h4 gxh4 9. Qg4 Qf6 10. Rxh4 Bd7 11. Nf3 Nc6 12. O-O-O O-O-O 13. Rh7 Bxc3 14. bxc3 e5 15. dxe5 Qe7 16. Qf4 Qa3+ 17. Kd2 Qa5 18. Bd3 d4 19. Nxd4 Nxe5 20. Bb5 Ng6 21. Bxd7+ Rxd7 22. Qg4 f5 23. Qxg6 Rxd4+ 24. Ke2 Qe5+ 25. Kf3 Qf4+ 26. Ke2 Qe4+ 0-1

Lepking could be a typo, Lipking could be the right name.

Feb-21-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: No surprise really; even stronger players from those days often have few to no games in DBs, and Trefler all but disappeared after his tremendous success in 1975.

Not quite, however, as mentioned in one of my kibitzes to the one game featured here.

Feb-21-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  Telemus: I just found this article which reports on two consultation games he played at the side of Kasparov and Carlsen, resp.: https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/...
Mar-07-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: <There were rumors that Karpov is also a billionaire.>

That would explain the huge money belt he apparently wears.

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