Libro en ingles.

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.

Here is what has been added to this edition:

• More accurate and extensive annotations using ChessBase and Stockfish 14.


• Torre’s own annotations to several games have been unearthed and added.


• Added games to give a more rounded view of Torre. Also the six games between players other than Torre that he annotated for the Mexican Championship tournament book.


• Many more diagrams and photographs. Also more thumbnail bios of Torre’s opponents.


• More ancillary material about Torre’s life and career: newspaper articles, pictures, anecdotes, interesting facts, opinions, trivia etc.


• A 1927 interview with Torre, published in the Yucatán magazine Anahuac.


• Excerpts from 64 Variaciones Sobre un Tema de Torre by Germán de la Cruz.


• Columns and articles from newspapers in Torre’s home town of Mérida.


• “A Clash of Opposites,” comparing and contrasting Torre with the notorious Norman Tweed Whitaker.


• The full text of Torre’s 1926 booklet Development of Chess Ability.


• A review of Torre x Torre, a fascinating documentary film.


• A more extensive, more fully informed overall assessment of Torre as a player.