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Carlos Guimard
C Guimard 
Photo courtesy of ajedrezargentina.org.  

Number of games in database: 789
Years covered: 1934 to 1996
Highest rating achieved in database: 2410
Overall record: +305 -197 =287 (56.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Queen's Pawn Game (101) 
    A46 D04 D05 D02 A45
 King's Indian (40) 
    E60 E69 E67 E72 E65
 Slav (31) 
    D11 D12 D15 D13 D19
 Queen's Indian (29) 
    E17 E16 E15 E19 E12
 Orthodox Defense (23) 
    D52 D61 D57 D63 D55
 Queen's Gambit Declined (22) 
    D30 D37 D38 D39
With the Black pieces:
 French Defense (100) 
    C04 C11 C14 C13 C10
 Orthodox Defense (53) 
    D55 D52 D63 D56 D51
 French (42) 
    C11 C13 C10 C00 C12
 Dutch Defense (41) 
    A95 A92 A94 A84 A91
 French Tarrasch (32) 
    C04 C07 C03 C05
 Queen's Gambit Declined (26) 
    D37 D31 D35 D30 D36
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Pachman vs C Guimard, 1955 0-1
   Spassky vs C Guimard, 1955 1/2-1/2
   J Pelikan vs C Guimard, 1945 0-1
   P Cherta Clos vs C Guimard, 1946 0-1
   Najdorf vs C Guimard, 1945 0-1
   Z Franco Ocampos vs C Guimard, 1980 0-1
   Martinez vs C Guimard, 1948 0-1
   C Guimard vs Boleslavsky, 1954 1-0
   Bolbochan vs C Guimard, 1941 0-1
   C Guimard vs L Prins, 1954 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Argentine Championship Match (1938)
   Argentine 1940 Championship Match (1941)
   Vina del Mar (1945)
   Aguas de Sao Pedro / Sao Paulo (1941)
   Montevideo (1938)
   Mar del Plata (1950)
   Mar del Plata (1949)
   Mar del Plata (1944)
   Mar del Plata / Buenos Aires Zonal (1954)
   Mar del Plata Zonal (1951)
   Buenos Aires (1960)
   Argentine Championship (1955)
   South American Championship 1934/35 (1934)
   Mar del Plata (1941)
   Mar del Plata (1953)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Buenos Aires 1939 by Tabanus


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CARLOS GUIMARD
(born Apr-06-1913, died Sep-11-1998, 85 years old) Argentina

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Carlos Enrique Guimard was born in Santiago del Estero. Awarded the IM title in 1950 and the GM title in 1960 he was Argentine champion in 1937, 1938 and 1941. He won matches against Roberto Grau (+4, =4, -0) in 1937, Luis Roberto Piazzini (+7, =1, -2) and Carlos Hugo Maderna (+7, =2, -0) and his best tournament result was at Berlin in 1937 where he was 1st= with Ludwig Rellstab ahead of Friedrich Saemisch and Alfred Brinckmann. He also played in the Olympiads of 1937, 1939, 1950 and 1954. Sub-champion of South America behind Alexander Alekhine at Montevideo 1938 [brasilbase-1] and Rio de Janeiro 1938 behind Virgilio Fenoglio and ahead of Julio Bolbochan, but these three players had the same score. 1st (jointly) with Erich Eliskases at Águas de São Pedro, 1941 [brasilbase-2]

Wikipedia article: Carlos Guimard

Last updated: 2023-02-15 14:16:24

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 page 1 of 32; games 1-25 of 789  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. J B Hernandez vs C Guimard  0-1671934Mar del PlataD02 Queen's Pawn Game
2. L Piazzini vs C Guimard  0-1551934Mar del PlataC14 French, Classical
3. B H Villegas vs C Guimard  ½-½521934Mar del PlataC11 French
4. J Bolbochan vs C Guimard  0-1711934Mar del PlataC11 French
5. C Guimard vs G Holtey 0-1371934Mar del PlataA46 Queen's Pawn Game
6. C Guimard vs J C Balparda  1-0841934Mar del PlataD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
7. C Guimard vs C Hounie Fleurquin  ½-½361934Mar del PlataA46 Queen's Pawn Game
8. C Guimard vs A Aponte  1-0401934Mar del PlataE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
9. J Molina vs C Guimard  1-0411934Mar del PlataA45 Queen's Pawn Game
10. C Guimard vs V Fenoglio  1-0291934Mar del PlataB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
11. J Traian Iliesco vs C Guimard  ½-½401934Mar del PlataD46 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
12. C Guimard vs R Grau  ½-½411934Mar del PlataD34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
13. A Schwartzman vs C Guimard  ½-½421934Mar del PlataD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
14. C Pulcherio vs C Guimard  0-1261934South American Championship 1934/35A45 Queen's Pawn Game
15. L Piazzini vs C Guimard  1-0511934South American Championship 1934/35A46 Queen's Pawn Game
16. J Bolbochan vs C Guimard  1-0521934South American Championship 1934/35D67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line
17. R Grau vs C Guimard  1-0241934South American Championship 1934/35C15 French, Winawer
18. M Castillo vs C Guimard  0-1341934South American Championship 1934/35D37 Queen's Gambit Declined
19. J C Balparda vs C Guimard  1-0641934South American Championship 1934/35A70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3
20. C Guimard vs C H Maderna  1-0411934South American Championship 1934/35D37 Queen's Gambit Declined
21. C Guimard vs C Hounie Fleurquin  1-0271934South American Championship 1934/35D30 Queen's Gambit Declined
22. C Guimard vs L Palau  1-0341934South American Championship 1934/35D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
23. C Guimard vs I Pleci  0-1261934South American Championship 1934/35D08 Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit
24. V Fenoglio vs C Guimard  ½-½421934South American Championship 1934/35C01 French, Exchange
25. C Guimard vs J M Cristia  1-0331934South American Championship 1934/35E12 Queen's Indian
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Apr-06-08  BIDMONFA: Carlos Enrique Guimard

GUIMARD, Carlos E.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/guimard_car...
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Apr-06-08  wouldpusher: Some online sources point out that indeed GM Guimard died in 1998.

http://ar.geocities.com/federacions...

Apr-06-08  whiteshark: Player of the Day

bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos...

May-01-09  Augalv: The year Guimard died is missing on this site:

http://www.ajedrezargentina.org/bio...

And according to this one, he died in 2001:

http://www.p4r.org.ar/biografias/gu...

Apr-06-10  wordfunph: Najdorf and Guimard played a tournament and Najdorf knew that he would be tempted to gamble a lot of money at the Casino, so he gave Guimard all his "reserve" money and told him to take it with him to his hotel room and not give it to him even if he begged for it. That night, Guimard was already asleep when Najdorf woke him up banging on his room door. Then Najdorf begged for his money and the situation became heated, but Guimard refused to give him the money. Morning after, the story goes, Najdorf was the most thankful man in the world."
Apr-06-11  gulliver: Was the French defense was contributed by him
Apr-06-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <gulliver: Was the French defense was contributed by him>

Guimard often played the French; the line 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nc6 bears his name, and the following game is likely the most famous played in the variation: Fischer vs R Byrne, 1965, though White played very weakly.

Byrne's play was an improvement on this game: Keres vs Botvinnik, 1955.

Aug-11-12  backrank: I've always wondered how to pronounce his name (which appears to be French, but I doubt it's pronounced in the French manner).
Aug-12-12
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  perfidious: <backrank> Believe the pronunciation is he-MAR or he-MARD. Bet <Jim Bartle> would be able to clarify this for us.

When I got a copy of Botvinnik's 100 Selected Games long ago, on reading through, there was one in the book where he referred to a player called Himar, having pulled off a similar combination in that game to the one in text.

Aug-12-12  backrank: <When I got a copy of Botvinnik's 100 Selected Games long ago, on reading through, there was one in the book where he referred to a player called Himar, having pulled off a similar combination in that game to the one in text.>

Thank you, very interesting!

Aug-12-12  Jim Bartle: I would pronounce it with a hard G and the accent on the first syllable. The H sound for the G would come more likely with a "Gi" than a "Gui."
Aug-12-12
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  perfidious: <Jim> Muchas gracias, senor!
Aug-12-12
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  perfidious: <Jim> A postscript: of course it's pronounced with a G; old age creeping up, I guess. When Botvinnik translated it, he was probably getting confused with the Cyrillic G, which I believe is pronounced the same as the English H.
Aug-12-12  Jim Bartle: Now I'm not sure where the accent should fall.
Aug-13-12  achieve: Car- -Ri- -Mard

Accent on first, middle, last, respectively.

Oct-19-12  Wyatt Gwyon: So how's it pronounced? lol. Been working on the Guimard French, been curious.
Nov-11-12  Infohunter: <perfidious: <Jim> A postscript: of course it's pronounced with a G; old age creeping up, I guess. When Botvinnik translated it, he was probably getting confused with the Cyrillic G, which I believe is pronounced the same as the English H.>

Well, as a matter of fact, Russian cannot render "h" directly; most often a foreign name with the letter "h" gets it turned into a "g". That's how a Russian GM whose ancestral family name was the German "Heller", for example, comes to bear the name Efim Geller. The Cyrillic letter you mention is "г", and in Russian it is always pronounced "g", never "h". (Though in Ukrainian it DOES stand for the sound of "h", the sound of "g" being rendered by the similar-looking letter "ґ"--but that's another story.)

Nov-12-12  EdZelli: Infohunter:, wrote 'Russian cannot render "h" directly;'

So true ! The real name of Vaganian is actually Vahanian. In case of Akobian, they dropped the letter H. His name is is actually Hakopian.

Feb-24-13  thomastonk: I wondered why he got the GM title in 1960, but according to the biography his best tournament result is Berlin 1937. In Game Collection: Buenos Aires 1960 <sneaky pete> mentioned that he received the GM title from this event, and that seems a much better tournament result, too.
Feb-14-15  Caissanist: Up until 1957 there were no formal criteria at all for awarding GM and IM titles--they were just decided on by committee votes, in much the same way that many sport choose members for a hall of fame.
Feb-14-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  An Englishman: Good Morning: One little curiosity--Guimard fared badly with the Guimard in the database (Repertoire Explorer: Carlos Enrique Guimard (black)). Presumably, he played dozens of other games with 3...Nc6 with better results that do not appear in CG.
Feb-21-15
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  Fusilli: <Wyatt Gwyon: So how's it pronounced?>

In Argentina it is pronounced this way:

The "Gui" part, same as the Gui part in Guinness.

The "mard" part, same as the planet Mars, but d instead of s. The "r" is strong (the rolling type) and most Argentines would produce only a faint "d" in this case.

The emphasis is on "mard".

Dec-01-19  spingo: He has a symmetric "Overall record":
+123 -121 =123.
Aug-29-21  waustad: His grand daughter is the marvelous mezzo soprano Isabel Leonard.
Aug-29-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: <waustad: His grand daughter is the marvelous mezzo soprano Isabel Leonard.>

She is an <MMS>.

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