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EUGENE TORRE
4 November 1951 to present
Eugene Torre is a chess player who in 1974 became the first Filipino to qualify for the title Grandmaster by winning the silver medal in the Chess Olympiad in France.
Torre is considered the strongest chess player the Philippines produced during the 1980s and 1990s and represented the Philippines in 17 chess Olympiads.
He famously beat the then-reinging World Champion Karpoc in 1976. In 2021 Torre was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.
World Renowned Filipinos / Living Legends - Series 1 # , 13 November 2021
# is part of a se-tenant block of 10, miniature sheet
In Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the first stamps of the Republic of the Philippines
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