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Carlos Torre
Repetto un campeón sin corona – Ajedrez Magdalena Jalisco
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238:Baden-Baden
195:Reuben Fine
170:speed chess
155:New Orleans
135:grandmaster
118:Grandmaster
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953:FIDE title
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87:1904-11-29
274:Leningrad
258:Marienbad
248:, behind
145:Biography
141:in 1977.
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233:won).
159:homage
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