Eugenio Torre

Eugenio Torre (born November 4, 1951) is a Filipino chess player.

In 1974, at 22 years old, he became the first Asian to qualify for the
Eugenio Torre
title Grandmaster by winning the bronze medal in the Chess
Olympiad held in Nice, France. He is considered the strongest chess
player the Philippines produced during the 1980s and 1990s, and has
been playing for the Philippines on board 1 in eighteen Chess
Olympiads.

In a tournament in Manila in 1976, Torre was then the only one to

beat the then-reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov in a game
that has become part of Filipino chess history. In 1982 he gained a
spot in the World Chess Championship candidates matches, where
he lost to Zoltan Ribli. He served as Bobby Fischer's second in the
1992 match against Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia.

Contents
Chess career
1976–1984 Torre in 1984
Olympiads, Team Championships and Asian Games Country Philippines
Olympiads Born November 4, 1951
Asian Chess Team Championships Iloilo, Philippines
Asian Cities Chess Championships Title Grandmaster (1974)
Asian Games
FIDE 2437 (https://ratings.fide.c
World Student Chess Team Championships
rating om/card.phtml?event=520
Later career
0016) (June 2020)
Friendship with Bobby Fischer Peak 2580 (January 1983)
Notable games rating
Awards and achievements Peak No. 20 (January 1983)
References ranking

External links

Chess career

1976–1984

Torre shot to prominence in 1976 as a possible future title challenger after winning a strong four-man
tournament in Manila ahead of World Champion Anatoly Karpov – thus becoming the first player to finish
ahead of Karpov in a tournament since the latter became world champion. In the summer of 1976, three
grandmasters traveled to Manila, Philippines to participate in the Marlboro-Loyola Kings Challenge chess
tournament. They were (in order by Elo): World Champion Anatoly
Karpov (2695) from the Soviet Union, Ljubomir Ljubojević (2620)
from Yugoslavia, and Walter Browne (2585) from the United States.
They were joined by grandmaster Eugenio Torre (2505) from the
Philippines for a double-round robin event. The average rating of the
players qualified the tournament as a category XV event.

The result was surprising and momentous due to the inspired play of
Torre. Not only did he defeat the world champion in the second
round, but he went on to finish clear first ahead of Karpov, a feat no
one had yet accomplished since the latter had become world
champion. His success in the tournament earned Torre a place in
history. The final standings and crosstable are as follows:

Manila 1976
1 2 3 4 Total
1 Torre – 1½ ½1 1½ 4½
2 Karpov 0½ – 1½ ½½ 3 Torre in 1982
3 Ljubojević ½0 0½ – ½1 2½
4 Browne 0½ ½½ ½0 – 2

The high point of his career came in the early 1980s when he was ranked world No.17; successfully going
on to qualify as a candidate for the world championship after tying for first with Lajos Portisch during the
1982 Toluca Interzonal.

Torre has the distinction of being the first Asian player to earn the title of International Grandmaster.[1] He
qualified for the Candidates Matches for the 1984 World Championship. In that preliminary stage, the
contenders play matches against each other to determine who will challenge the world champion. Torre was
eliminated when he lost his match against Zoltán Ribli by a score of 6–4.

After losing his quarterfinal candidates match to Ribli in 1983, Torre became disillusioned with chess and
more or less went into semi-retirement. He went on to become a minor celebrity due to his daily one-hour
TV programme Chess Today.

In 1984, Torre was selected to play in the second USSR vs. the Rest of the World competition held in
London, England. The USSR team was led by the world's two (2) highest ranked players at that time, Garry
Kasparov (2710 Elo) and Karpov (2700 Elo) while the Rest of the World was led by Viktor Korchnoi and
Ljubomir Ljubojević both with 2635 Elo rating. Torre had an Elo rating of 2565 for this tournament where
he contributed 2 points in 3 games, all against Andrei Sokolov, winning 2 and losing once.[2]

Olympiads, Team Championships and Asian Games

Eugenio Torre
Olympiads
Medal record
From 1970 to 2010, the former business administration Representing Philippines
undergraduate from Mapúa Institute of Technology donned the Asian Games
national colors 20 times in the World Chess Olympiad, 19 of which
were consecutively, to break the old record of 18 consecutive held Men's
2010 Guangzhou
by Heikki Westerinen. His 20 non-consecutive appearances tied the Team
record set by Hungary's Lajos Portisch. During that 40-year period, Chess Olympiad
he manned the top board for Team Philippines a record 17 times Men's
except in the 1970 (Siegen, Germany), 2006 (Turin, Italy) and 2010 2016 Baku
Olympiad
(Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia) editions. In that stretch, Torre had played
in 236 games winning 86, drawing 111 and losing 39 games for a Chess Olympiad
grand total of 141½ points. The high point of his Olympiad career Men's
was winning the Bronze Medal thrice in the Individual Standings in 1986 Dubai
Olympiad
Board 1, at the 21st Chess Olympiad (1974 Nice, France) where he
went undefeated in 19 games (nine wins and ten draws) for a total of Chess Olympiad
14 points for a 73.7% winning percentage and a high 2622 Men's
1980 Valletta
performance rating (as compared to his Elo rating of 2450); 24th Olympiad
Chess Olympiad (1980 Valletta, Malta) where he scored 11 points in
Chess Olympiad
14 games (nine wins, four draws, and one loss) for a winning
percentage of 78.6% and performance rating of 2683 (2520 Elo), and Men's
1974 Nice
lastly in the 27th Chess Olympiad (1986 Dubai, UAE) where he Olympiad
garnered 9½ points in 13 games (seven wins, five draws, and one Asian Chess Championship
loss) with a 73.1% winning percentage and 2637 performance rating
(2540 Elo). Team Philippines achieved its highest finish of 11th Men's
1993 Kuala Lumpur
place at the 1974 Chess Olympiad. Team
Asian Chess Championship
In 1988, Torre captained the Philippine team to its best-ever seventh-
place finish in the Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki, Greece.[3] Men's
1983 New Delhi
breaking the previous high of 11th-place finish at the 21st Chess Team
Olympiad. Torre finished with 9 points on 6 wins, 6 draws and 2 Asian Chess Championship
losses manning Board 1 with a high performance rating of 2620[4] as
Men's
compared to his Elo rating of 2555. His teammates then included 1981 Hangzhou
Team
International Masters (IMs) Rico Mascariñas and Rosendo Balinas
who played Boards 2 and 3, and then 3 untitled players namely Asian Chess Championship
Rogelio Antonio (Board 4), Eric Gloria (Board 5) and Rogelio Men's
Barcenilla (Alternate). 1979 Singapore
Team
At the 39th Chess Olympiad held at Khanty-Mansiysk in 2010, Torre Asian Chess Championship
manned Board 4 for the Philippines and played 7 games where he Men's
scored 4½ points with 3 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss with a performance 1977 Auckland
Team
rating of 2460[5] which was a shade below his Elo rating of 2489. In
2012, Torre participated in his record 21st Olympiad appearance at Asian Cities Chess Championship
the 40th Chess Olympiad breaking his tie with Lajos Portisch held at Men's
Istanbul, Turkey. He manned Board 3 in this edition of the 2002 Aden
Team
Olympiad.[6] He scored 3½ points in 7 games on the strength of 2
Asian Cities Chess Championship
wins, 3 draws and 2 losses.[7] He recorded a very high performance
rating of 2611 in this Olympiad,[7] higher than his 2469 Elo rating. 2004 Manila
Men's
In 2014, Torre again manned Board 3 for Team Philippines in the Team
2014 Tromso Olympiad for his record-setting 22nd appearance in
the said tournament. He scored 5½ points in 9 games posting 3 wins, 5 draws against a solitary loss. He
recorded a performance rating of 2527 and gained 9.9 Elo points in the said Olympiad.[8] His Elo rating then
was 2438.

In the 2016 42nd Chess Olympiad held at Baku, Azerbaijan, Torre played in his 23rd Olympiad, further
extending his record, where he played on Board 3 for the Philippines. He played in all 11 games, the only
Philippine player to do so, winning 9 games and drawing 2. He had a very high performance rating of 2836
and won the bronze medal for Board 3 just behind former teammate Wesley So of the United States and
Zoltan Almasi of Hungary. He gained 46.9 Elo rating points increasing his Elo rating from 2447 to 2494.[9]
At the conclusion of the 2016 Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan, Torre had already played a total of 270
games with 103 wins, 124 draws and 43 losses for a grand total of 165 points (61.1% winning percentage).
He has also won 4 bronze medals already in his storied Chess Olympiad career: 21st Chess Olympiad (Nice,
France), 24th Chess Olympiad (1980 Valleta, Malta), 27th Chess Olympiad (1986 Dubai, UAE) and 42nd
Chess Olympiad (Baku, Azerbaijan).

Asian Chess Team Championships

He also has taken part in six Asian Chess Team Championships (1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1993). Torre
has an outstanding record at this tournament where he won the gold medal 4 times: for his score in the 1977
(Auckland, New Zealand), 1979 (Singapore), 1981 (Hangzhou, China) and 1983 (New Delhi, India)
editions. He also won the bronze in the 1993 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) competition. In all six team
championships, Torre manned the top board for Team Philippines. He has played a total of 43 games scoring
a total of 35½ points built around 29 wins, 13 draws and a solitary loss for a winning percentage of
82.6%.[10]

In the 1977 edition, Torre played 7 games, going undefeated with 5 wins and 2 draws for a winning
percentage of 85.7 and a tournament performance rating (TPR) of 2615 as compared to his 2550 Elo rating
winning the gold medal. He also won the gold medal in the 1979 edition going undefeated once again by
winning 5 games and drawing 1 for a winning percentage of 91.7 with a TPR of 2671 (2520 Elo ); in the
1981 edition where he was again undefeated with 4 wins and 2 draws for a winning percentage of 83.3 and a
2604 TPR (2525 Elo), he again brought home the gold medal; and lastly, in the 1983 edition he scored a
near perfect score of 8½/9 winning 8 games and drawing 1 in another undefeated tournament with a winning
percentage of 94.4% and an outstanding TPR of 2743 (2570 Elo) on the way to another gold medal.

It was in the 1986 edition where Torre suffered his only loss against Malaysian International Master (IM)
Liew Chee Meng in the fifth round. It was also in this edition that Torre did not win any medal of any color
when he placed a dismal 6th place in Board 1 scoring 4 points by virtue of 3 wins, 2 draws and the loss
against Meng for a winning percentage of 66.7 and a TPR of 2431 (2540 Elo).

In the 1993 edition, he bounced back by going undefeated once again scoring 6½ points in 9 games, winning
4 and drawing 5 for a winning percentage of 72.2% and a TPR of 2584 (2540 Elo). This bronze medal
capped Torre's magnificent record in the history of the Asian Chess Team Championships.

Asian Cities Chess Championships

In 2002 and 2004, Torre also manned the top board for Team Philippines in the 13th (Aden 2002) and 14th
(Manila 2004) editions of the Asian Cities Chess Championships. The 13th edition was held at Aden, Yemen
where Torre scored 5½ points in nine games on the strength of three wins, five draws and one loss while
Manila, Philippines hosted the 14th edition where he scored 5 points in eight games (four wins, two draws,
and two losses). He has scored a total of 10½ points in 17 games on 7 wins, 7 draws and 3 losses for a
winning percentage of 61.8%.[11]

Team Philippines won the Gold Medal in the 2002 edition while they placed 3rd, good for the bronze medal,
in the 2004 edition.

Asian Games
In the 16th Asian Games, Torre helped the Philippines finished second behind China, beating the Indian
team in the semifinals to secure the silver medal. He played 8 games as a reserve scoring 5½ points on the
strength of 4 wins, 3 draws and a solitary loss for a winning percentage of 68.8% and a TPR of 2470.

World Student Chess Team Championships

Torre also played Board 3 in the World Student Chess Team Championships in 1969 although he lost his one
and only game in the said tournament against William Roland Hartston.[12]

Later career

In 2006, Torre participated in the 2nd San Marino International

Chess Open where he tied for fourth through eleventh places with
6½ points in nine rounds where he eventually placed seventh after
the tie-breaks becoming the highest-placed Filipino in the
tournament. He had a performance rating of 2612 and won €1,000
for his seventh-place finish.[13]

In 2010, Torre competed in the 3rd Calgary International Chess

Championships held at Alberta, Canada where he flashed his vintage Torre in 2016
form by finishing in a tie for second through fourth places on the
strength of four wins, four draws and a solitary loss against GM
Victor Mikhalevski, the tournament top seed with Elo Rating of 2614. Torre had an Elo Rating of 2506
during the said tournament.[14]

In 2011, Torre joined two prestigious international chess championships in the Philippines, the Asian Zone
3.3 Chess Championships and the 2nd Chairman Prospero A. Pichay, Jr. Cup International Open Chess
Championships. He finished in a tie for 15th–21st places in the Asian Zonals eventually placing 18th after
tiebreaks (5 points out of nine games on four wins, three losses, and two draws). It was a poor finish for
Torre as he had a four-game winning streak from rounds 2 to 5 after an opening round loss to FM Haridas
Pascua to take the lead after five rounds but faltered in the last four rounds where he scored only 1 point
(two draws and two losses). He had a low performance rating of 2344 in this tournament.[15] In the 2nd
Pichay Cup, he improved a little bit by scoring 6½ points in 10 games to finish in a tie for 11th–18th places
eventually finishing in 14th place (four wins, five draws, and one loss). This is another heartbreaker as he
was stalled by five draws despite losing only one game to Chinese Lu Shanglei. In this tournament he had a
performance rating of 2496.[16]

In June 2014, Torre won the prestigious National Chess Championships – Battle of GMs held at the function
room of the Philippine Sports Commission in Vito Cruz, Manila. In so doing, Torre became the oldest
Filipino chess player to win a national championships at the age of 62 by scoring 23 points under the
Pichay–Torre system or 4½ points under the standard system. He won the title via tiebreak over fellow GM
John Paul Gomez. The tournament also served as the qualifying tournament for the 2014 Olympiad to be
held in Tromso, Norway in August. This is Torre's record 22nd appearance in the Olympiad.[17]

In 2016, Torre was part of the 2nd batch of inductees of the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame cited by the
Philippine Sports Commission.[18] In the 42nd Chess Olympiad held at Baku, Azerbaijan he scored an
undefeated 10/11, with a performance rating of 2836,[19] thanks to which he won the individual bronze
medal on board three.[20]
In 2017, Torre was invited to the prestigious Reykjavik Open by virtue of his strong performance in the
2016 Olympiad.[21] He acquitted himself well in this tournament (won by Anish Giri), scoring 7 out of 10 (7
wins 3 losses) and tying for 11th to 13th places eventually settling for 13th after the tiebreaks.[22] In
October, Torre won the Asian Senior Chess Championship, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in the 65+
category, scoring 9/9 points.[23] One year later, he retained the Asian senior champion title in the same
category in Tagaytay.[24][25]

Friendship with Bobby Fischer

Torre was a friend of Bobby Fischer. He worked on Fischer's team in the 1992 rematch with Boris Spassky
in Yugoslavia. Much later, Torre conducted interviews with Fischer on Filipino radio dzRH MBC Sports
Center. Those interviews gained notoriety for Fischer and despair for his fans as he believed he would be
killed in the United States after being deported from Japan. Torre was involved in 1996 when Fischer
Random Chess was launched.

Notable games
In a tournament in Manila in 1976, Torre beat then-reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov in a game
that has become part of Filipino chess history:

Karpov vs. Torre, Sicilian Defence, Richter–Rauzer Attack (ECO B67)

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 a6 8. 0-0-0 Bd7 9.
f4 b5 10. Qe1 Nxd4 11. Rxd4 Qb6 12. Rd2 Be7 13. Bd3 b4 14. Nd1 Bb5 15. Nf2 h6 16.
Bh4 g5 17. fxg5 hxg5 18. Bg3?! (18.Bg5 Qa5! 19.Bxb5! axb5 20.Rd3 Rg8 21.h4 Qxa2
22.Qb4 Qc4=/∞ Ostojić[26]) Nh5 19. Ng4 Nxg3 20. hxg3 Rxh1 21. Qxh1 Rc8 22. Kb1 Bxd3
23. cxd3 Qd4!−/+ 24. Qd1 a5 25. Nh2 g4 26. Nxg4 Bg5 27. Rc2 Rxc2 28. Kxc2 a4 29. a3
b3+ 30. Kb1 d5 31. exd5 Qxd5 32. Nf2 Qxg2 33. Ne4 Be3 34. Nc3 Qc6 35. d4 Qc4 36. d5
e5 37. Qh1 Qd3+ 38. Ka1 Bd4 39. Qh8+ Kd7 40. Qa8 Qf1+ 41. Nb1 Qc4 42. Qb7+ Kd6
43. Qb8+ Kxd5 44. Qd8+ Ke6 45. Qe8+ Kf5 46. Qd7+ Kg6 47. Qg4+ Kf6 48. Nc3 Qf1+ 0–
1[27]

Awards and achievements

Asia's first Grandmaster at the age of 22
1970 Philippine Junior and Adult Champion
1974 Nice, France Chess Olympiad, Bronze medalist on Board 1 going undefeated in 19
games with 9 wins and 10 draws
1976 The Marlboro-Loyola Kings Challenge, Champion (becoming the first player to finish
ahead of Anatoly Karpov since Karpov became world champion)
1977 Asian Chess Team Championships, Gold Medal on Board 1 (6 points/7) 5 wins, 2 draws
(undefeated)
1979 Asian Chess Team Championships, Gold Medal on Board 1 (5½ points/6) 5 wins, 1 draw
(undefeated)
1980 La Valletta, Malta Chess Olympiad, Bronze medalist on Board 1 scoring 11 points/14 (9
wins, 4 draws, 1 loss)
1981 Asian Chess Team Championships, Gold Medal on Board 1 (5 points/6) 4 wins, 2 draws
(undefeated)
1983 Asian Chess Team Championships, Gold Medal on Board 1 (8½ points/9) 8 wins, 1 draw
(undefeated)
 1986 Dubai, UAE Chess Olympiad, Bronze medalist on Board 1 garnering 9½ points/13 (7
wins, 5 draws, 1 loss)
1993 Asian Chess Team Championships, Bronze Medal on Board 1 (6½ points/9) 4 wins, 5
draws
2002 Philippine National Champion
2005 Southeast Asian Games, Silver Medal (Men's Standard Team Event)
2005 Southeast Asian Games, Bronze Medal (Men's Individual Rapid Chess)
2005 5th Bangkok Chess Club Open, 2nd Place (7½/9 lost in tiebreak to Ian Rogers)
2006 2nd San Marino International Chess Open, 7th place
2008 3rd President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (PGMA) Cup, Champion (7/9)
2010 3rd Calgary International Chess Classic, second place (6/9, tied with IMs Renier
Castellanos and Edward Porper)
2014 National Chess Championships – Battle of GMs, Champion
2010 20th Appearance at Chess Olympiad equaling Lajos Portisch
2012 21st Appearance at Chess Olympiad held at Istanbul, Turkey, breaking his tie with
Portisch
2014 22nd Appearance at Chess Olympiad held at Tromso, Norway, breaking his old record of
21 appearances
2016 23rd Appearance at Chess Olympiad held at Baku, Azerbaijan, breaking his old record of
22 appearances.
2016 Baku, Azerbaijan Chess Olympiad, Bronze medalist on Board 3 scoring 10/11 points
(undefeated with 9 wins and 2 draws), and a performance rating of 2836. He gained 46.9 Elo
rating points in this tournament.
Ranked as high as No. 17 in the world in the 1980s
Has appeared in the Chess Olympics 20 consecutive times, equaling Portisch
Played Board 2 for Team Philippines in the 1970 Chess Olympiad at Siegen, Germany behind
International Master Renato Naranja
In the 1972 Skopje Olympiad, he assumed the top board (Board 1) for Team Philippines, a
position he held until the 2004 Olympiad held at Mallorca, Spain (a total of 17 Olympiads, a
world record)
Played Top Board in the following Olympiads: Skopje 1972, Nice 1974 (where he received his
GM title and led the Philippines to a then unprecedented 11th-place finish), Haifa 1976,
Buenos Aires, 1978, Malta 1980, Lucerne 1982, Thessaloniki 1984, Dubai 1986, Thessaloniki
1988 (where the Philippines recorded its best finish at 7th place), Novi Sad 1990, Manila 1992,
Moscow 1994, Yerevan 1996, Elista 1998, Istanbul 2000, Bled 2002 and Calvià de Mallorca
2004
At the 2006 Olympiad at Turin, Italy, gave way to GM Mark Paragua on top board as he played
Board 2 for only the second time in his entire Olympics career
After 23 Chess Olympiads, Torre had recorded 103 wins, 124 draws and 43 losses in 270
games for a total score of 165 points, second over-all in Olympiad history behind Portisch
(176½/260 games). However, he now holds the distinction of having played the most games in
the history of the Olympiad with 270.
Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2017 PSA Annual Awards[28]

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Golombek, Harry (1977). Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess. Crown Publishing. ISBN 0-517-
53146-1.
Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1992). The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd ed.). Oxford
University Press. ISBN 0-19-280049-3.

External links
Eugenio Torre (http://www.365chess.com/players/Eugenio_Torre) chess games at
365Chess.com
Eugenio Torre (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15793) player profile and
games at Chessgames.com
Eugenio Torre (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Torre,%20Eugenio.html) FIDE rating
history, 1984-2001 at Olimpbase.org
[1] (http://calgarychess.com/Executive.html) Calgary Chess Club Executives
[2] (http://www.albertachess.org/2010CICC/Players.html) Calgary International Player List

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