Esteban Canal (April 19, 1896 – February 14, 1981)[1] was a leading Peruvian chess player who had his best tournament results in the 1920s and 1930s.
Canal played his most famous game, sometimes called the "Peruvian Immortal", at a simultaneous exhibition in 1934.
Canal wrote "Strategia di Avamposti" (Outpost Strategy) in 1948, in which he explains his ideas with 50 games commented in his colorful style.
It contains games with players such as Capablanca, Nimzovitch, Rubinstein, Vidmar, Reti, Pirc, Saemisch, Menchik, Lilienthal, Bogoljubov, and other greats of the time.
From 1962 to 1978, Esteban Canal also kept a chess column in the Italian magazine "Fenarete Letture d'Italia".
Canal played in one Chess Olympiad, representing Peru on board 1 in 1950 at Dubrovnik.
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