Rodolfo Argentino Redolfi (28 May 1928 – 2 December 2013), was an
Argentine
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...
chess player who held the
ICCF title of
Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1994). He was a
Chess Olympiad team bronze medal winner (
1958
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Biography
Rodolfo Redolfi started playing chess at the age of sixteen. He ten times won the
Córdoba Province Chess Championships (1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1972, 1979, 1988). Rodolfo Redolfi participated in the
Argentine Chess Championship finals, where he showed the best result in 1958, when he shared second place with
Oscar Panno
Oscar Roberto Panno (born 17 March 1935 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine chess Grandmaster. Panno was the first top world chess player born in South America.
Panno won the 2nd World Junior Chess Championship in 1953, ahead of such future stron ...
behind
Hermann Pilnik.
Rodolfo Redolfi played for Argentina in the
Chess Olympiad:
* In 1958, at fourth board in the
13th Chess Olympiad
The 13th Chess Olympiad (german: Die 13. Schacholympiade), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. team tournament, as well as several o ...
in
Munich (+3, =4, -2).
Rodolfo Redolfi played for Argentina in the World Student Team Chess Championship:
* In 1958, at third board in the 5th World Student Team Chess Championship in
Varna (+5, =2, -3).
Rodolfo Redolfi was known as a participant in
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 1990, he was awarded the
International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) International Master title and received the International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster title four year later.
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1928 births
2013 deaths
Argentine chess players
Correspondence chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Sportspeople from Córdoba, Argentina
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