EUGENIO TORRE (born Nov-04-1951, 73 years old) Philippines [what is this?] Eugenio Torre was born in Iloilo City, the Philippines and is the strongest Filipino chess player of his generation. He reached a peak world ranking of 20 in January 1983 and was in the world's top 100 players for most of the period from 1975 until 1992. (1) At the age of 60, he remains ranked among the top players in the Philippines. Awarded the IM title in 1972, Torre quickly ascended the ranks, and has the distinction of being the first Asian to earn the title of International Grandmaster. He accomplished the feat at the age of 22 when he won a bronze medal on board 1 at the 21st World Chess Olympiad held in Nice, France in 1974. Torre has been a veteran of the World Chess Olympiad for four decades, playing in every Olympiad since 1970 (except for 2008), playing top board for his team in every Olympiad between 1972 and 2004 inclusive, and leading the Philippine team to 7th place at the 1988 Thessaloniki Olympiad. Altogether, he has won three individual Olympiad bronze medals. Torre also participated in most of the early Asian Team Championships, invariably playing top board and invariably winning one or two medals. He lead the team to three consecutive gold medals during the games held in 1977, 1979 and 1981, to silver in 1983, and gold again in 1986. He also won 4 consecutive individual gold medals in those years and finished with a bronze medal for both the team and himself in his last stint at the Asian Team Championships, played in Kuala Lumpur in 1993. He beat Anatoly Karpov in Manila in 1976, one of Karpov's few losses during his championship reign. Torre qualified for the Candidates round in 1984 but lost to Zoltan Ribli. He was a friend of Robert James Fischer, playing some training games with him and acting as a member of his team during Fischer's 1992 match against Boris Spassky. Later he conducted radio interviews with Fischer on <Bombo Radyo> of the Philippines. He also established the Eugene Torre Chess Foundation and the Eugene Torre Chess Center, which aim to discover and develop hidden talents from the Philippines' provinces. He was an early coach of Wesley So. Philippines top 100 http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtm...; (1) http://www.schachchronik.de/ratings...; (2) http://philboxing.com/news/story-84... Wikipedia article: Eugenio Torre Last updated: 2023-12-26 19:36:48

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page 1 of 65; games 1-25 of 1,606  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. E Torre vs Gligoric 0-1 51 1968 Manila Meralco C93 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense 2. R Naranja vs E Torre 1-0 64 1968 Manila Meralco E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto 3. R Balinas vs E Torre 1-0 92 1968 Manila Meralco B20 Sicilian 4. B Berger vs E Torre   1-0 49 1968 Manila Meralco A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 5. R Reyes vs E Torre   0-1 36 1968 Manila Meralco B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 6. G Badilles vs E Torre   1-0 71 1968 Manila Meralco E63 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation 7. E Torre vs E De Castro   0-1 40 1968 Manila Meralco C89 Ruy Lopez, Marshall 8. E Torre vs J Lobigas   ½-½ 42 1968 Manila Meralco B27 Sicilian 9. S Aguilar vs E Torre   0-1 23 1968 Manila Meralco B94 Sicilian, Najdorf 10. E Torre vs N Estimo   1-0 30 1968 Manila Meralco B42 Sicilian, Kan 11. E Torre vs K A Lim   ½-½ 48 1968 Manila Meralco B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack 12. Lee Keng Cheong vs E Torre   ½-½ 35 1968 Manila Meralco B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 13. E Torre vs P Rasmussen   1-0 43 1968 Manila Meralco C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense 14. C Benitez vs E Torre   ½-½ 22 1968 Manila Meralco B42 Sicilian, Kan 15. E Torre vs R Rodriguez   0-1 37 1968 Manila Meralco B03 Alekhine's Defense 16. W Hug vs E Torre   ½-½ 50 1969 World Junior Championship qual-2 B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation 17. E Torre vs Karpov ½-½ 77 1969 World Junior Championship qual-2 C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 18. K Payrhuber vs E Torre   ½-½ 47 1969 World Junior Championship qual-2 B25 Sicilian, Closed 19. E Torre vs R M McKay   0-1 32 1969 World Junior Championship qual-2 B04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern 20. A Sznapik vs E Torre   0-1 46 1969 World Junior Championship qual-2 E97 King's Indian 21. E Torre vs J Fridjonsson   1-0 47 1969 World Junior Championship qual-2 B07 Pirc 22. S Bouaziz vs E Torre   ½-½ 20 1969 World Junior Championship Final-B B02 Alekhine's Defense 23. E Torre vs E M Green   ½-½ 49 1969 World Junior Championship Final-B C93 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense 24. J Kristiansen vs E Torre   0-1 36 1969 World Junior Championship Final-B E73 King's Indian 25. E Torre vs L Ogaard   ½-½ 25 1969 World Junior Championship Final-B B04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern  page 1 of 65; games 1-25 of 1,606

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ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 486 OF 503 ·  Later Kibitzing> Mar-08-15    spawn2: <pm77> Nag-hang pati vietnamchess. Still confident GM Eugene has a big chance of scoring the full point. Mar-08-15    pinoymaster77: Panalo na sa livegames, at move 20? Maybe na flag down kalaban ? Mar-08-15    spawn2: GM Eugene winning his 2nd rd game in less than 40 moves Mar-08-15    pinoymaster77: Good start, sa TOP board sa round 3 with the white pieces vs GM Gundavaa! Mar-08-15    allan.dinglasan: Go Eugene! Go Eugene! Mabuhay ka!!! Mar-08-15    spawn2: The one game per day format is very good for GM Torre. He is able to conserve his strength and prepares well vs his opponent. Looking forward to another excellent game tomorrow. Mar-08-15    spawn2: Vo Thanh (2311) vs GM Torre (2449) Rd 2 Zonal 3.3 1.c4 e5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 Bc5 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Bb6 6.Nge2 O-O 7.d4 d6 8.O-O Re8 9.h3 h5 10.e4 Nbd7 11.Bg5 ed4 12.Nd4 Ne5 13.Kh1 Nc4 14.b3 Ne5 15.f4 Ng6 16.Na4 Bc7 17.Qf3 Qe7 18.Rae1 Nf8 19.Nc3 N8h7 20.Bh4 Qf8 21.Qd3 Nd7 22.Qd1 g6 23.Nf3 Bd8 24.Rf2 f6 25.Bf1 Kh8 26.g4 Ba5 27.Qc1 hg4 28.hg4 Nc5 29.g5 Bc3 30.Qc3 Ne4 31.Re4 Re4 32.gf6 Rf4 33.Bg5 Ng5 34.f7 Qg7 35.Rh2 Bh3 36.Qc1 Rf3 0-1 Mar-08-15    kamagong24: congrats GM Torre! Mar-08-15    wordfunph: basta si Alamat, swabeeee! Mar-08-15    allan.dinglasan: It is hard to see GM Sadorra being beaten by his fellow Pinoy, nevertheless, congratulations to IM Haridas Mar-08-15    pinoymaster77: Medyo maganda nga simoy ng hangin, normally parang diesel si AFGM at sa huli aarangkada kung ok condition, eh eto maganda start and very beatable pa GM Gundavaa. Magandang warm-up eto before eventually facing yung TOP 3 na sila GMs Le Ngoc and Zhang Mar-08-15    kamagong24: kaya yan! Mar-08-15    spawn2: After rd 2, there are 2 Pinoys, 1 Myanmar, 1 Mongolian and 1 Vietnamese in the top 5. Let's see if composition will change after the 3rd rd. Mar-08-15    pinoymaster77: Sicilian nga! Maganda umpisa AFGM with good control of center and space, GM Gundavaa trying to challenge the center control... Mag Alapin sana pero with black's 2nd move of Nf6 eh e5 agad AFGM 1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. d4 cxd4 6. cxd4 d6 7. Bc4 e6 8. O-O Be7 9. Bd2 Mar-08-15    spawn2: I like GM Eugene's openings. Mixing d4 and e4 as white. His click handling has been very good so farm Go Genius! Mar-09-15    spawn2: I mean "his clock handling" Mar-09-15    pinoymaster77: After 20 moves, chessbomb's stockfish says its dead even, but Im not sure if its accurate. Anyone can run the position on houdini or rybka? Mar-09-15    pinoymaster77: Ayun na, banggaan na sa taas, bukas sa rd4 will handle black vs GM Zhang Zhong. Dapat din pala makaharap IM Hari either GM Zhang or GM Gundavaa for the 3rd Federation nanggaling GM, aside from scoring the needed points. Mar-09-15    spawn2: Will be facing GM Zhang tomorrow with Black. Hopefully, it will be a Ruy Lopez duel. GM Torre still in the top 5 after 3 rounds Mar-09-15    allan.dinglasan: Go Eugene Go Eugene!!! Mar-09-15    pinoymaster77: Ano ba match record vs GM Zhang, checked dito sa CG games ang nakita eh 2008 game sa PGMA and it was drawn. Anyway, familiar na sila with each other. I think GM Zhang and wife were at the Pacman Cup 2013. Mar-09-15    spawn2: Arya Genius! 10:30 am na! Mar-09-15    pinoymaster77: Scotch on the rocks ! Mar-09-15    spawn2: GM Zhang vs GM Torre Scotch Opening 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Nxc6 bxc6 6. Bd3 d6 Mar-09-15    Pulo y Gata: Peaceable encounters before:http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... This is a pretty harmless setup for White. Harmless is relative ciempre. Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 503) search thread:    ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 486 OF 503 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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