Roberto Gray

Roberto Gray
Surname	Roberto Gabriel Gray
Association	Argentina
Born	March 18, 1900 Buenos Aires , Argentina
Died	April 12, 1944 Buenos Aires , Argentina
Best Elo rating	2580 (April 1939) ( Historic Elo rating )

Roberto Gabriel Grau (born March 18, 1900 in Buenos Aires , † April 12, 1944 there ) was an Argentine chess player .

Life and tournament successes

Grau won the first championship of South America in 1921/1922 and the third in 1928. In the second championship in 1925 and the fourth championship in 1934 he was second, in 1925 behind Luis Argentino Palau and in 1934 behind Aaron Schwartzman .

He won the Argentine championship in 1926 by winning first in a tournament and then in a duel 5-3 against reigning champions Damián Reca . He defended the title without a fight, as tournament winner Damián Reca and after his cancellation, second-placed Luis Palau did not play against him in 1927/1928. In a duel, he defeated Isaías Pleci 4-0 after his tournament victory in 1928. After losing the title in 1929 against Pléci 3: 5, he did not win the tournament again until 1934, by winning a duel against Luis Piazzini with 7.5: 5.5 he was then again Argentine champion. In 1935 he defended against Jacobo Bolbochán 5-3, but lost the title in 1936 2-6 to Carlos Guimard .

Gray took part in six Chess Olympiads , each of which he played for Argentina. At the unofficial Chess Olympiad in Paris in 1924 , he finished 12th in the individual ranking. He then represented his country at the 1927 Chess Olympiad in London (on the top board he defeated Manuel Golmayo Torriente , among others, and played a draw against George Koltanowski , Siegbert Tarrasch , Hans Johner , Max Euwe , Lajos Asztalos , André Cheron and Ernst Grünfeld , among others ) 1928 Chess Olympiad in The Hague (with victories against János Balogh and Valentí Marín, among others, and draws against Henri Weenink and Oskar Naegeli , among others ), the 1935 Chess Olympiad in Warsaw , the 1937 Chess Olympiad in Stockholm and the 1939 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires . In the last five participations he achieved an overall result of 38 points from 75 games (+23 = 30 −22).

After calculating the historical Elo rating, his highest rating was 2580 in April 1939. He was 39th in the world rankings.

Grau died of a brain haemorrhage.

Works

• Tratado General de Ajedrez . Reprint: Ediciones Colihue (September 1998). ISBN 978-9505816064

literature

• Biography of the chess player Roberto Grau with picture on EcuRed, July 2, 2012 (Spanish)

Individual references and sources

1. ^ Tournament table from Montevideo 1921/1922 at Brasilbase . Retrieved July 2, 2012
2. ^ Tournament table of Mar del Plata 1928 at Brasilbase . Retrieved July 2, 2012
3. ^ Tournament table from Montevideo 1925 at Brasilbase . Retrieved July 2, 2012
4. ↑ Tournament table from Mar del Plata 1934 at Brasilbase . Retrieved July 2, 2012
5. ↑ Tournament tables on the carlasevigne website in an archived version ( memento from October 25, 2009 on WebCite ) from October 25, 2009 via Webcitation.org.
6. ↑ Chess Olympiad: Paris 1924 - Individual statistics on OlimpBase (English)
7. ↑ Chess Olympiads Roberto Graus on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Roberto Grau at Chessmetrics (English)
9. ^ The Milwaukee Journal, Apr. 13, 1944, p. 47 . The archived version on Google News was accessed on July 3, 2012.