ROSENDO CARREON BALINAS, JR.
(born Sep-10-1941, died Sep-24-1998) Philippines
Rosendo Carreon Balinas, Jr. was born on the 10th of September 1941 in Manila, The Philippines. He learnt to play at age 7 but did not take up the game seriously until he was 15. Balinas earned the IM title in 1975 and he became a GM in 1976.
He won the Philippine Open Championship 6 times and played for the Philippines Olympiad team from 1964-76.
He was 1st= with Svetozar Gligoric at the Manila Open in 1968, 3rd= in the zonal tournament in Melbourne 1975, 4th= at Dortmund 1976 and 1st at Odessa 1976. This last tourney, 1976 Moscow Central Chess Club International Tournament, Odessa, USSR marked the first time since Capablanca in 1936 that a foreign master won an international tournament in the USSR. For his feat, IM Balinas was awarded the Grandmaster title. It was the Russian Chess Federation and several of their strongest GMs who recommended that his Grandmaster title be awarded. He was a lawyer by profession and passed away in Antipolo City in 1998.
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