Héctor Rossetto
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Full name | Héctor Decio Rossetto |
Country | Argentina |
Born | 8 September 1922 (1922-09-08) Bahía Blanca, Argentina |
Died | 23 January 2009 (2009-01-24) (aged 86) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Title | Grandmaster (1960) |
Peak rating | 2465 (July 1972) |
Héctor Decio Rossetto (8 September 1922 in Bahía Blanca, Argentina – 23 January 2009 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine chess player.
He earned the title of International Master in 1950 and the Grandmaster title in 1960.
He was a five-time Argentine Champion (1942, 1944, 1947, 1962, and 1972). [1] Rossetto won the Mar del Plata chess tournament in 1949 and again in 1952 (shared with Julio Bolbochán). He also won in Mar del Plata (KIM) in 1962.[2] In 1964, he qualifield for the Interzonal Tournament in Amsterdam.[3]
He was the director of the 1978 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires.
He was a player from the "golden age" of chess in Argentina, led by Miguel Najdorf, with Erich Eliskases, Hermann Pilnik, Carlos Guimard, Julio Bolbochán, and young Oscar Panno.
References
External links
- Hector Rossetto rating card at FIDE Archived 12 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine
- Hector Rossetto player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Héctor Rossetto FIDE rating history at OlimpBase.org
- Héctor Decio Rossetto Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
- Visa with photo 1947
- Visa with photo 1952
- Visa with photo 1961
- Falleció Héctor Rossetto (in Spanish)
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