Fabio Finocchiaro (born June 6, 1939) is an Italian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player who holds the

ICCF title International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) was founded on 26 March 1951 as a new appearance of the International Correspondence Chess Association (ICCA), which was founded in 1945, as successor of the Internationaler Fernschachbund (IF ...

of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.

Biography

He started to play chess at age 15 in his native

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. Since 1968 Finocchiaro actively participated in the

correspondence chess Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played through a correspondence chess server, a public internet chess forum, or email. Less common ...

tournaments. In 1977 and 1979 he twice won Italian correspondence chess championship. In 2013 Finocchiaro won the 25th World Correspondence Chess Championship (2009–2013).WC25/final, World Championship 25 Final
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Finocchiaro, Fabio 1939 births Living people World Correspondence Chess Champions Correspondence chess grandmasters Italian chess players