Balinas Rosendo Carreon Jr. (10.09.1941 – 24.09.1998)

Filipino Grandmaster (1976). Lawyer, writer, and journalist. Best Asian player of the 1960s. Seven-time the Champion of Philippines. At the 1966 Olympiad, he was awarded a silver medal for the second best score on board 3 (behind Tal) with 15½ points out of 20.

Best results: Melbourne 1975, zonal-3-4^th, Manila 1975- 6-7^th, Odessa 1976-1^st, the first foreign victory in the USSR since Capablanca’s in 1936, Dortmund 1976-4^th, Manchester 1979 –3-5^th, Dubai 1984-4-6^th.

A participant in the Olympiads from 1966 until 1976. He holds the distinction of being the first non-Soviet to win a tournament in the then Soviet Union. He died of liver cancer in the Philippines in 1998.

Peak rating: 2517 in 1977.