Argentine chess player

Héctor Decio Rossetto (8 September 1922 in Bahía Blanca, Argentina – 23 January 2009 in Buenos Aires) was one of the best chess players in Argentine history.

He earned the *le of International Master in 1950 and the Grandmaster *le in 1960.

He was a five-time Argentine Champion (1942, 1944, 1947, 1962, and 1972).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.

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, Herman 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
• Hector 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)