Gerardo Barbero, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Argentine chess player
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Place of Birth: Lanús, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
About Gerardo Barbero
- Gerardo Fabián Barbero (21 August 1961 – 4 March 2001) was an Argentine chess grandmaster.
- He was born in Lanús, Buenos Aires, and raised in Rosario, Santa Fe. Barbero came fifth in the World Junior Chess Championship of 1978.
- He was Argentine champion in 1984 and played on board one for the Chess Olympiad team in 1990.
- He played six times for Argentina, between 1978 and 1994, at the Chess Olympiads.
- Barbero was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1987.In 1986 he moved to Budapest, Hungary, where he was married and had a son.
- In Hungary, he developed a friendship with Bobby Fischer, who, according to GM Eugenio Torre, "liked Barbero".
- He died in Budapest of cancer in 2001.The third chapter of Tibor Karolyi's 2009 book Genius in the Background is devoted to him.
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