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| Mar-31-05 | | Stangg: w00t,he teh player of teh day |
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Mar-31-05
 | | WTHarvey: Here are some crucial positions from Zenon's games not given here: http://www.wtharvey.com/fran.html |
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| Nov-18-05 | | soberknight: Zenon Franco-Ocampos: Good pun by offramp, but I can do better: Castling is my middle name!
My first name is a noble gas! (Xenon) |
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| May-12-06 | | BIDMONFA: Zenon Franco-Ocampos FRANCO, Zenon
http://www.bidmonfa.com/franco_zeno...
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| Sep-16-06 | | Knight13: A new book came out of this guy.... Copyrighted 2005. It's called "Chess Self-Improvement." It presents 50 games that has parts to let you guess which move is the best, and earn points or lose points to determine your strengh. So it's basicly a training book, or some of you might call it the QUIZ book. |
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| Nov-30-07 | | Phoenix: "Chess Self-Improvement" is a great book, in fact. I highly recommend it. |
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Nov-30-07
 | | WannaBe: Cool, if <Phoenix> recommends it, I'm gonna get it! =) |
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| Dec-03-07 | | Phoenix: Ok! I should warn you then, the games are NOT for the faint of heart! |
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| Nov-29-08 | | whiteshark: He also wrote <Winning Chess Explained - <How chess games are won and lost in practice.>> Zenon Franco is a grandmaster from Paraguay who now lives in Spain. He is an experienced chess trainer, his most notable pupil being Paco Vallejo, now one of the world's top grandmasters, whom he taught from 1995 to 1999.
--> Francisco Vallejo-Pons |
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| May-12-10 | | wordfunph: chess books by GM Zenon Franco-Ocampos..
+ Chess Explained - The English Opening
+ Chess Explained - The Modern Benoni
+ Chess Self-Improvement
+ Grandmaster Secrets - Counter-Attack!
+ The Art of Attacking Chess
+ The Giant Chess Puzzle Book
+ Winning Chess Explained |
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| Oct-23-12 | | Abdel Irada: I wonder whether there's any etymological relationship between this player's first name and the ancient Greek /xenos/, meaning "strange," "foreign" or "unknown." If there is, his opponents may think he's a real gas ... unless they suffer from Zenophobia. |
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| Oct-23-12 | | blitzpatzer: Zenon = "Living" |
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| Oct-23-12 | | Abdel Irada: Hmm. Then I wonder if any of his opponents suffer from fear of living. ;-) |
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| May-16-16 | | diagonal: Zenón Franco Ocampos is author in the growing <Everyman’s Move By Move> series, he examined in detail Anand's chess career to date, and also wrote the volume on Spassky, and Rubinstein (newly published in 2016). |
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| Oct-20-18 | | AdolfoAugusto: Someone commented that GM Zenón Franco Ocampos was a trainer. I would like to contact him and see if hes available for online tutoring. If someone has his email, please contact me.
adolfoabalderas@yahoo.com |
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| Oct-01-24 | | vonKrolock: From damasyreyes.es earlier today <" Zenón Franco, grandmaster and writer, legend of Spanish chess, dies at 68
 Federico Marín Bellón
5 hours ago ">
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<" The same day that the 10th Ibero-American Championship ended – we postponed coverage of its outcome with sorrow – we received the news of the death of grandmaster Zenón Franco (Paraguay, 1956). He was “an absolute legend of Spanish-speaking chess,” says David Martínez. “It is a shame to have lost one of the best Latin American players in history. We had many battles on the board, although in recent years he stood out a lot as an author,” writes Miguel Illescas, the only player who surpassed him in the 1999 Spanish Championship. “A very kind, cultured man, always with a smile on his face, as well as a great player. He was also a great historian of our game,” adds Juan Manuel Bellón on his Facebook account. "> ... <" Indeed, after his great career on the boards, Zenón Franco remained linked to the game as a journalist and writer. He had a widely followed column in ABC Color, a newspaper from Asunción (Paraguay) that confirmed the death of the chess player. His last note, on Capablanca's performance at the 1939 Buenos Aires Olympiad, dates back just two weeks ago. He also wrote nearly 40 books, published in seven languages, many of them under his own label, Zenonchess Ediciones. The one dedicated to Miguel Najdorf was considered by FIDE to be the second best of 2021. Just a few days ago, Zenón celebrated the appearance of its edition in Russian. He also collaborated in numerous magazines, such as 'El Rey', 'Ajedrez de Estilo', 'Gambito', 'Jaque' and the Italian 'Torre & Cavallo'. ">Quoted from, and more here:
https://damasyreyes.es/muere-68-ano... |
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| Oct-04-24 | | Gottschalk: Adiós, Zenon.
Gracias por sus notas y libros.
https://www.tabladeflandes.com/zeno...
Descanse en paz |
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Oct-04-24
 | | plang: I have many of his books - he was an excellent analyst. |
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| Oct-04-24 | | Gottschalk: Profile in Chessbase (with photo):
https://players.chessbase.com/en/pl... |
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| Oct-04-24 | | Gottschalk: Chess News (Chessbase):
https://en.chessbase.com/post/zenon... |
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Oct-07-24
 | | Fusilli: I am saddened by this news. When I was growing up in Argentina, he won a lot of open tournaments there. |
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| Oct-07-24 | | stone free or die: <“Hace 10 días (el 21 de setiembre) hizo un paro cardíaco en su casa mientras tomaba mate con su esposa; entró en terapia intensiva y lastimosamente, falleció hace media hora más o menos”, indicó a ABC Color Ezequiel Gómez Ocampo, primo hermano del fallecido.> https://www.abc.com.py/nacionales/2... According to the above he suffered a heart attack while drinking "mate" with his wife. I'm not sure, but I believe "mate" is "yerbal mate", a <a traditional South American caffeine-rich infused herbal drink.> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_... |
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Oct-07-24
| | Fusilli: <stone> Yes, that is indeed what <mate> is. Very popular in Paraguay, Eastern Argentina (the region called "el litoral" there), the Pampas, Uruguay, and (I think) parts of Southern Brazil. Here's a nice one by GM Franco Ocampos:
White to play (move 44)
click for larger viewZ Franco Ocampos vs S Schweber, 1979 |
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| Oct-07-24 | | stone free or die: Kinda strangulation problem ultimately.
What would the <CT> tagging be? Discovered Attack + Sacrifice maybe? * * * * *
(Pedantic aside - do you know about the positional "query string" parameters for the game link? https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gi-
d=2246161&m=44 (&m=44)
Z Franco Ocampos vs S Schweber, 1979 (&m=44) When you click on that link you get the board set up just before that move (&m=44 for White's 44th move, &m=44.5 for Black's)) * * * * *
PPS - I wish <CG> would show the appended extra to the game link so that you know it's not a link to the start of the game. I also wish <CG> didn't do the automatic line splitting - which mangles the plaintext url above (i.e. no hyphens). |
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Oct-07-24
| | Fusilli: <stone> <do you know about the positional "query string" parameters for the game link?> I do now! Thanks for the tip. |
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