Virgilio Fenoglio (February 20, 1902, in Santa Fe – March 15, 1980, in Buenos Aires) was an

Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

master, winner of 37 tournaments. He played 13 times in

Argentine Chess Championship The first Argentine Chess Championship was held in 1921. The Champion's title was granted after victorious or drawn match between previous champion and challenger, a winner of ''Torneo Mayor'' (this or the next year). The matches were done away in ...

, in the period 1928–1959. He was a winner of ''Torneo Mayor'' in 1930, but lost a match for the title to

Isaías Pleci Isaías Pleci (also Isaías Pléci) (27 October 1907 – 27 December 1979) was an Argentine chess master. Chess tournaments Pléci was the Argentine Champion in 1929 to 1930. He won at Buenos Aires 1928 (ARG-ch 7 Mayor) and lost a match for ...

(4 : 6) in 1931. He tied for 3rd–6th at Mar del Plata 1934 (the 4th

South American Chess Championship The first South American Chess Championship (''Torneo Sudamericano'', ''Torneio Sulamericano'') was held in Montevideo (Carrasco), Uruguay, on December 25, 1921 – January 22, 1922. The eighteen-player single round-robin tournament was won by Rober ...

, Aaron Schwartzman won), tied for 13–14th at Buenos Aires 1934/35 (the 5th South American–ch, Luis Piazzini won), shared 3rd at Mar del Plata 1936 (the 6th South American–ch, Pléci won), took 3rd at São Paulo 1937 (the 7th South American–ch, Rodrigo Flores won), took 3rd in the Montevideo 1938 chess tournament (the 8th South American–ch,

Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...

won), shared 1st with

Carlos Guimard Carlos Enrique Guimard (6 April 1913 – 11 September 1998) was an Argentine chess Grandmaster. He was born in Santiago del Estero. His granddaughter Isabel Leonard is a celebrated mezzo-soprano. Biography Guimard was thrice Argentine Champ ...

and

Julio Bolbochán Julio Bolbochán (20 March 1920 – 28 June 1996) was the Argentine chess champion in 1946 and 1948. Career He learned the game from his older brother, Jacobo Bolbochán, later an International Master. He represented Argentina in seven Chess ...

at Rio de Janeiro 1938 (''Torneio Sulamericano''), tied for 14–15th at

Mar del Plata chess tournament Mar del Plata, Argentina, has a rich history of chess tournaments, including their international chess tournament and open tournament. There is also an annual city tournament, which had its first edition in 1946, and reached its 62nd edition in 2 ...

1942 (

Miguel Najdorf Miguel Najdorf ( ; born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf; 15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in 1939, and he stayed and settled there. He was a leadin ...

won), and took 12th at Mar del Plata 1943 (Najdorf won).

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Small profile of Virgilio Fenoglio
1902 births 1990 deaths 20th-century Argentine chess players {{Argentina-chess-bio-stub