Gerardo Barbero
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Gerardo Barbero (21 August 1961 – 04 March 2001) was an Argentine chess grandmaster. He was born in Lanús, Buenos Aires, and raised in Rosario, Santa Fe.
Barbero was Argentine champion in 1984 and played on Chess Olympiad team board one in 1990. Altogether he played from 1978 to 1990 six times for Argentina on Chess Olympiads.
Barbero had a win against Bent Larsen in Buenos Aires in 1991 (moves given in algebraic chess notation):
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Be7 7.b3 a6 8.Bd3 b5 9.O-O O-O 10.e4 b4 11.Na4 dxe4 12.Bxe4 Bb7 13.Bg5 Nxe4 14.Bxe7 Qxe7 15.Qxe4 Rab8 16.c5 a5 17.Rfe1 Rbd8 18.a3 Nf6 19.Qh4 Ba6 20.axb4 axb4 21.Nb6 Bb5 22.Qf4 Rb8 23.Ne5 Rfd8 24.Re3 Rb7 25.g4 Ra7 26.Rae1 Ne8 27.g5 f6 28.Nf3 Nc7 29.gxf6 gxf6 30.Nh4 Qf7 31.Kh1 Kh8 32.Rg1 Qf8 33.Ng6+ hxg6 34.Rh3+ 1-0
Since 1986 he lived in Budapest, Hungary, where he died of cancer in 2001. He was married with one child.
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