Eugenio Torre, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Eugenio Torre

Filipino chess International Grandmaster

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1951

Place of Birth: Manila, Luzon, Philippines

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Philippines

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Eugenio Torre (born November 4, 1951) is a Filipino chess player.
In 1974, at 22 years old, he became the first Asian to qualify for the title Grandmaster by winning the silver medal in the Chess Olympiad held in Nice, France.
He is considered the strongest chess player the Philippines produced during the 1980s and 1990s, and has been playing for the Philippines on board 1 in eighteen Chess Olympiads. In a tournament in Manila in 1976, Torre was then the only one to beat the then-reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov in a game that has become part of Filipino chess history.
In 1982 he gained a spot in the World Chess Championship candidates matches, where he lost to Zoltan Ribli.
He served as Bobby Fischer's second in the 1992 match against Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia.