VelascoGabriel Velasco (born 1949 in Mexico City) is a a professor
of mathematics and author of over twenty books on mathematics. He has been a
chess enthusiast since age 15. Besides Vida y Partidas de Carlos Torre,
he is the author of Msterpieces of Attack (Chess Digest, 1990), presenting
the best games of the late GM Marcel Sisniega Campbell. Velasco lived in Kiev 1985-1987
and shared 1st-3rd prize in a tournament of Candidate Masters and First
Category players, earning thereby a norm of Candidate Master of the Soviet
Union. Back in Mexico, he won the championship of the state of Guanajuato. He
is now retired and lives in Mexico City with his wife and his son Richard, who
was was given that name in honor of Richard Réti.