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The
articles of Eugene Salomon
Born in Gijon, as Juan Eugenio Salomon Rugarcia (always
called Eugenio), he has been -for the last 58 years- J.
Eugene Salomon (better known as Gene Salomon). He played
and interacted with Alexander Alekhine in 1944 and today,
almost 75 years later, we can share with him his memories
of those distant days in Spain as well as his subsequent
life experiences in Cuba and in the U.S. Gene Salomon was
one of the most promising youngsters in the Spanish chess
scene of the 1940's. Circumstances of life did not permit
him to fulfill his potential. He left Spain in 1947 to
relocate in his mother's birth country-Cuba, where he had
to abandon chess due to the pressures of having to work
while going to Havana University Engineering School. In
1960, Gene left Cuba for the U.S. In 1968, after 16 years
of complete absence from the chess world, he returned to
the Tournament circuit where he never reached the original
expectations but still had a new 30 years career with some
colorful experiences. He writes about his memories
Get
to know Gene Salomon
Eugene Salomon chess career in Spain was brilliant but
short. It was interrupted when at age 19 he left Madrid for
Havana and his multiple activities over the Board, while
lasting several decades were too far away, the other side of
the Atlantic, so we lost track of him. His surfacing in Spain
in 2016 through the social press was a surprise. Putting
together his rich history was a pleasant task. We were able
to launch the project thanks to the book that Eugene and his
two "chess buddies" (Wayne Conover and Steve
Pozarek) wrote under the title: " 40 Years of
Friendship -100 Games of Chess". The original book
(both as an E-Book and under the "Forward Chess"
format) was written in English. With the authors permission
we translated it into Spanish so that we could publish it
through the Internet for the benefit of our readers. In
addition, the writer Miguel Angel Nepomucenohas published a
series of articles about Gene in the prestigeus
"Zenda/libros" site. Following are the links to
all this material:
Articles
by Miguel Angel Nepomuceno: 
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Eugene
Salomon's history is beyond frontiers
Evidently Eugene's life is much more than his interaction
with Alekhine. It has been the long journey of a chess
player with a colorful story worth telling. No wonder that
foreign chess magazines have shown interest in his articles
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mentions in chess magazines and newspapers
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