Mexico’s First Grandmaster – The Genius of Carlos Torre! This book is offered to chessplayers and enthusiasts of all Spanish-speaking countries as an homage to one of the greatest Latin American chess players of all time: Grandmaster Carlos Torre Repetto, originally from Yucatán, Mexico. In recognition of Torre’s formidable accomplishments and triumphs during the years 1924-1926, the Fédération Internationale Des Echecs (FIDE, the International Chess Federation) in 1977 bestowed on Torre the title of International Grandmaster. This is a collection of 105 well-annotated games by Torre against the strongest players of his time. You are invited to enjoy and learn from Torre’s great games, his beautiful combinations and his strategic and tactical concepts. The original print edition has not been available for over a decade, but it is now being re-released as an eBook. Excerpts, including the Table of Contents and the Foreword, of most Russell Enterprises books are available at http://russell-enterprises.com/excerptsdownloads.html.

The Life and Games of Carlos Torre

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Kingston, Taylor

Velasco, Gabriel

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This is what’s new in this edition: More accurate and more extensive annotations, computer-assisted. Every game has been examined under Stockfish 14, probably the best analytical engine available for home computers at this time. For the first edition we had only Fritz 4 and 5, which compare to Stockfish like a Model T Ford to a Ferrari, and many games were given no computer examination at all. Thus owners of the first edition will find most annotations here substantially different (and substantially better). However, many general assessments and heuristic notes proved valid and have been retained. · 
Torre’s own annotations to several games have been unearthed and added. These come from several sources: the American Chess Bulletin, his book of the 1926 Mexican Championship tournament, and his instructional booklet Development of Chess Ability. · 
Several games have been added. Some, frankly, are Torre losses, which we give in the interest of presenting a more complete, balanced picture of his play. The first edition, to some extent, looked at Torre through rose-colored glasses; here we aim only for untinted clarity. Also added are the six games between players other than Torre that he annotated for the Mexican Championship tournament book (see Chapter VIII). · 
There are many more diagrams and photographs than in the first edition. Also more thumbnail bios of Torre’s opponents. · 
More ancillary material about Torre’s life and career: pictures, anecdotes, interesting facts, opinions, bits of trivia etc., drawn from the ACB, the Wiener Schachzeitung, the film Torre x Torre, and other sources. · 
A 1927 interview with Torre, published in the Yucatán magazine Anahuac, in Chapter III. · 
Chapter IV, excerpts from the book 64 Variaciones Sobre un Tema de Torre by his friend Germán de la Cruz.

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The Life and Games of Carlos Torre

The Life and Games of Carlos Torre

The Life and Games of Carlos Torre