Héctor Decio Rossetto (8 September 1922 in Bahía Blanca, Argentina – 23 January 2009 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentinian chess player.

He earned the title of International Master in 1950 and the Grandmaster title in 1960.

Héctor Rossetto

He was a five-time Argentine Champion (1942, 1944, 1947, 1962, and 1972).

Héctor Rossetto

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. In 1964, he qualifield for the Interzonal Tournament in Amsterdam.

Héctor Rossetto

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.

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External links

Hector Rossetto rating card at FIDE

Visa with photo 1947

Visa with photo 1952

Visa with photo 1961

Falleció Héctor Rossetto

1922 births

2009 deaths

Argentine chess players

Chess grandmasters

20th-century chess players

People from Bahía Blanca