1. Miguel Najdorf (1910)

Argentine Chess Player

Polish born Argentine chess Grandmaster who is best known for his Najdorf Variation, one of the most respected and deeply studied of all chess openings.

2. Hugo Spangenberg (1975)

Argentine Chess Player

Hugo Hernán Spangenberg is an Argentine chess grandmaster. In 1989 Konex Foundation sponsored his participation in the Infant World Chess Championship in Puerto Rico. He won at Cubatão 1989 and...

3. Rubén Felgaer (1981)

Argentine Chess Player

Rubén Felgaer is an Argentine chess Grandmaster. Felgaer was twice Panamerican Junior Champion in 2000 and 2001. He was Argentine Champion in 2001 and took 2nd in 2000 3rd in...

4. Raimundo Garcia (1936)

Argentine Chess Player

Raimundo Garcia is an Argentine chess master. At the beginning of his career he took 7th at Santa Fe 1956.

5. Benito Villegas (1877)

Argentine Chess Player

Benito Higinio Villegas was an Argentine chess master. He was the first Champion of Club Argentino de Ajedrez in Buenos Aires in 1906-1907. After World War I he won Argentine...

6. Carlos Maderna (1910)

Argentine Chess Player

Carlos Hugo Maderna was an Argentine chess master. He was twice Argentine Champion; in 1940 he won a match for the title against Luis Piazzini then lost a match to...

7. Gerardo Barbero (1961)

Argentine Chess Player

Gerardo Barbero was an Argentine chess grandmaster. He was born in Lanús Buenos Aires and raised in Rosario Santa Fe. Barbero came fifth in the World Junior Chess Championship of...

8. Carlos Guimard (1913)

Argentine Chess Player

Carlos Enrique Guimard was an Argentine chess Grandmaster. He was born in Santiago del Estero.

9. José Rubinstein (1940)

Argentine Chess Player

José Rubinstein is an Argentinian chess master. He took 6th in the Argentine Chess Championship in 1961 took 6th at Mar del Plata 1962 and took 5th at Mar del...

10. José María Cristiá (1907)

Argentine Chess Player

José María Cristiá was an Argentine chess player lawyer champion of Rosario in 1928 and 1940. He was seventh in the Argentine Torneo Mayor of 1931 and fifth in Buenos...

11. Samuel Schweber (1936)

Argentine Chess Player

Samuel Schweber is an Argentine chess player. Schweber played in several Argentine chess championships. He was 7-8th in 1956 4-6th in 1960 2nd in 1963 3rd in 1965 5-8th in...

12. José Gerschman (Unknow)

Argentine Chess Player

José Gerschman was an Argentine chess master. He played four times in Argentine Chess Championship.

13. Roberto Grau (1900)

Argentine Chess Player

Roberto Gabriel Grau was an Argentine chess master. Grau played in many Argentine championships. In 1921/22 he tied for 3rd-4th. In 1922 he tied for 2nd-3rd. In 1923/24 he tied...

14. Virgilio Fenoglio (1902)

Argentine Chess Player

Virgilio Fenoglio was an Argentine chess master winner of 37 tournaments. He played 13 times in Argentine Chess Championship in the period 1928–1959.

15. Gastón Needleman (1990)

Argentine Chess Player

Gastón Needleman is a chess prodigy from Mendoza Argentina. He attended high school at Escuela de Comercio Martin Zapata.

16. Pablo Ricardi (1962)

Argentine Chess Player

Pablo Ricardi is an Argentine chess grandmaster. He won the Argentine Chess Championship five times and was a sub-champion in 2005. He also won or shared first at La Paz...

17. Jaime Emma (Unknow)

Argentine Chess Player

Jaime Emma was an Argentine journalist lawyer and chess player. He was crowned chess champion of Argentina in 1978 the same year he won the title of International Master.

18. Luis Piazzini (1905)

Argentine Chess Player

Luis Roberto Piazzini was an Argentine chess master. He participated many times in Argentine championships and was an Argentine Champion in 1933 winning ARG-ch Torneo Mayor and a match for...

19. Luis Argentino Palau (1897)

Argentine Chess Player

Luis Argentino Palau was an Argentine chess master. He played for Argentina in three Chess Olympiads. In 1924 at 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad in Paris ; In 1927 at 1st...

20. Juan Iliesco (1898)

Argentine Chess Player

Juan Traian Iliesco was a Romanian Argentine chess master. He played several times in Argentine championships.

21. Aron Schvartzman (1908)

Argentine Chess Player

Aron Schvartzman was an Argentine chess master who was prominent in chess tournaments of the 1930s and 1940s. Between 1933 and 1949 Schvartzman was a participant in numerous Argentine...

22. María Berea de Montero (1914)

Argentine Chess Player

María Angélica Berea was an Argentine chess Woman International Master and women's champion of Argentina in 1951. With the married name of María Angélica Berea de Montero she participated in...

23. Héctor Rossetto (1922)

Argentine Chess Player

Héctor Decio Rossetto was one of the best chess players in Argentine history. He earned the title of International Master in 1950 and the Grandmaster title in 1960. He was...

24. Carlos Bielicki (1940)

Argentine Chess Player

Carlos Bielicki is an Argentine chess master. In 1958 he won the Argentine Junior Championship. In 1959 Bielicki was World Junior Chess Champion winning the tournament in Münchenstein and earning...

25. Pablo Zarnicki (1972)

Argentine Chess Player

Pablo Zarnicki an Argentine chess player. He won at Mar del Plata 1989. In 1992 Zarnicki won the World Junior Chess Championship at Buenos Aires. He represented Argentina in five...