Walter Arencibia
Number of games in database: 450
Years covered: 1984 to 2007
Current FIDE rating: 2536
Highest rating achieved in database: 2579
Overall record: +172 -100 =178 (58.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Queen's Gambit Declined (19)      D37 D38 D36 D31 D35  Sicilian (19)      B22 B40 B92 B20 B36  Modern Benoni (16)      A57 A69 A56 A68 A58  King's Indian (15)      E76 E60 E94 E92 E77  Nimzo Indian (14)      E25 E20 E32 E48 E38  Queen's Pawn Game (12)      A41 A45 A46 E00 A40	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (39)      B43 B42 B51 B90 B93  French Defense (25)      C05 C16 C02 C10 C17  King's Indian (18)      E62 E97 E92 E76 E90  Sicilian Kan (16)      B43 B42 B41  Ruy Lopez (13)      C78 C68 C67 C98 C65  Queen's Pawn Game (11)      D02 A40 D00 A46 A45

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   J Klinger vs W Arencibia, 1986 0-1
   W Arencibia vs Granda-Zuniga, 1986 1-0
   W Arencibia vs Jobava, 2005 1-0
   J Linan Baena vs W Arencibia, 2001 0-1

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WALTER ARENCIBIA (born Jul-21-1967) Cuba [what is this?] Walter Arencibia was born in Cuba in 1967. He learned chess at the age of eight and has won various tournaments, including the 1986 World Junior Chess Championship. Other tournament victories include the Cuban Youth Championships in 1985, and tied for 1st at the Canadian Open Championship in 2006 with Abhijit Kunte. He has also represented Cuba at many Chess Olympiads from 1986 to 2006.

page 1 of 18; games 1-25 of 450  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. W Arencibia vs L Bueno Perez   1-0 43 1984 Capablanca mem-B D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 2. F Braga vs W Arencibia   1-0 26 1984 10s, CUB [Hiarcs 7.32 B22 Sicilian, Alapin 3. R Hernandez vs W Arencibia   ½-½ 115 1985 Havana-B D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 4. W Arencibia vs Dlugy   0-1 54 1985 Havana-B B56 Sicilian 5. L Ortega vs W Arencibia   1-0 29 1985 Havana-B A09 Reti Opening 6. Vaisser vs W Arencibia   1-0 41 1985 Havana-B D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 7. W Arencibia vs S Garcia-Martinez   ½-½ 10 1985 Havana-B B04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern 8. K Beckman vs W Arencibia   0-1 50 1985 Havana-B D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 9. W Arencibia vs V Zaltsman   0-1 39 1985 Havana II A13 English 10. W Arencibia vs M Knezevic   0-1 51 1985 Havana-B A10 English 11. W Arencibia vs E Pigusov   ½-½ 21 1985 Havana-B A00 Uncommon Opening 12. J L Vilela vs W Arencibia   1-0 32 1985 Havana-B A09 Reti Opening 13. W Arencibia vs C Garcia-Palermo   0-1 38 1985 Havana-B A25 English 14. A Barreras vs W Arencibia   ½-½ 24 1985 Havana-B D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 15. W Arencibia vs T Thorhallsson   ½-½ 61 1986 Wch U20 D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 16. W Arencibia vs Anand ½-½ 54 1986 Gausdal D29 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical 17. W Arencibia vs Granda-Zuniga 1-0 26 1986 Gausdal A53 Old Indian 18. E Rojas Sepulveda vs W Arencibia   ½-½ 53 1986 Wch U20 A84 Dutch 19. W Arencibia vs S Agdestein   1-0 40 1986 Wch U20 E25 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch 20. W Arencibia vs P Motwani   0-1 26 1986 Dubai ol (Men) A52 Budapest Gambit 21. P Staniszewski vs W Arencibia   0-1 49 1986 Wch U20 D89 Grunfeld 22. W Arencibia vs R Saunders   ½-½ 18 1986 Wch U20 A57 Benko Gambit 23. W Arencibia vs J Howell   1-0 61 1986 Wch U20 A68 Benoni, Four Pawns Attack 24. M Schlosser vs W Arencibia   0-1 26 1986 Wch U20 C06 French, Tarrasch 25. Hecht vs W Arencibia   1-0 31 1986 Dubai ol (Men) A15 English  page 1 of 18; games 1-25 of 450    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Arencibia wins | Arencibia loses

Apr-12-04    Bitzovich: Wow, one of the few GMs i got to meet becomes player of the day. Actually, i got one of my games annotated by him (for quite a bit of money).. i just remember the way i couldn't understand a word of what he was saying :) (he has this really strong accent) Jul-21-06    rustamrocks: Happy birthday Walter. Nice way to celebrate (by beating Evgeny Bareev)! Jul-21-06    BIDMONFA: Walter Arencibia ARENCIBIA, Walter http://www.bidmonfa.com/arencibia_w... _ Jul-21-07    chessgames.com: To celebrate Walter's birthday, we just uploaded over 200 new games. Jul-21-07    brankat: W.Arencibia must be a phenomenon. According to his Bio, born in 1987, won the World Junior Championship in 1986 :-) Jul-21-07    Akuni: <Brankat> it says 1967 as well. So not only did he become a grandmaster before he was born, but he was born twice. Aug-03-07    MindCtrol9: Everybody liked him at the Pupo's Academy,in Holguin,Cuba.I used to play there when he was a child.Walter.I am Octavio Salazar.Im very proud of you,my friend.I do hope to shake your hand next year as well as other good players like Adelkis Remon,Pupo the teacher and many others.Congratulations!!!

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