Héctor Rossetto

Héctor Rossetto
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

1. "Major Tournaments and Argentine Chess Championships (notes in Spanish)". Archived from the original on 24 May 2024. Retrieved 17 November 2009.
2. "Mar del Plata KIM 1962". 365Chess.com. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
3. "1964 Amsterdam Interzonal : 1964-66 cycle : World Chess Championship".

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)