List of Argentine chess players

Miguel Najdorf came from Poland and was the strongest Argentine chess player after World War II.

The list of Argentine chess players contains chess players who are or were eligible to play for the Argentine Chess Federation and who meet at least one of the following conditions:

• Winner of one of the following FIDE titles: Grand Master , Honorary Grand Master , International Master , Grand Master of Women , International Master of Women;
• Holder of one of the following ICCF titles: Grand Master, Honored International Master, International Master, Grand Master of Women, International Master of Women;
• Winning an Argentine individual championship (open class or women's competition);
• a historical Elo rating of at least 2500 (before the Elo rating was introduced in July 1971).

General

In local chess, 22 grandmasters, 65 international masters (including the only woman Carolina Luján , who is also the women's grandmaster), two women's grandmasters and 13 international women's champions are eligible to play for the Argentine Chess Federation. Seven grandmasters, two honorary grandmasters, 19 international masters and four international women champions have already died, four grandmasters, ten international champions and two international women champions are no longer eligible to play for the Argentine Federation.

In correspondence chess, 16 Argentine players have earned the title of Grand Master, 26 that of an Honored International Master, 65 that of an International Master, one player that of a Women's Grand Master and two that of an International Women's Master. Of these, one Grand Master, two Merited International Masters and eight International Masters have already passed away.

The Argentine individual championship was played 90 times, the women's championship 66 times. The record champion is Miguel Najdorf with eight titles, the women's competition was won by Dora Trepat de Navarro with eight titles the most.

Another ten Argentine players achieved a historic rating of at least 2500 before July 1971 .

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The following table contains this information:

• Name : gives the name of the player.
• Life data : states the year of birth and, if applicable, the year of death of the player.
• FIDE : Names the player's highest FIDE title (GM = Grand Master, HGM = Honorary Grand Master, IM = International Master, WGM = Women's Grand Master, FM = FIDE Master , WIM = International Women's Master, WFM = FIDE Master the women).
• Year : Name the year the title was awarded
• ICCF : Names the highest ICCF title of the player (GM = Grand Master, SIM = Honored International Master, IM = International Master, LGM = Women's Grand Master, LIM = International Women's Master).
• Year : Name the year the title was awarded
• Title : Indicates the number of Argentine individual championships won.
• Title (women) : Indicates the number of Argentine individual championships won by women.
• Historical Elo : For players who have neither FIDE nor ICCF titles and have never won an Argentine championship, the highest historical Elo number achieved before July 1971 , provided this is at least 2500.
• Other associations : For players who were sooner or later eligible to play for at least one other association, this indicates these associations with the periods of eligibility to play (if known).

The list is current as of March 5, 2020.

Surname	Life dates	FIDE	year	ICCF	year	title	Title (women)	historical Elo	other associations
Hilda Noemí Abdala				LIM	2013	0	0
Pablo Ismael Acosta	1999	IN THE	2014			0	0
Diego Adla	1968	IN THE	1990			0	0
Salvador Alonso	1974	GM	2009			0	0
Roberto Gabriel Álvarez	1963			GM	1997	0	0
Carlos Alberto Álvarez Rouchaud	1934-2005			IN THE	1998	0	0
Horacio Nelson Álvarez Villar	1964			IN THE	2001	0	0
Stephanie Amed	1990	WIM	2010			0	0
Claudia Amura	1970	WGM	1998			0	5
Enrique Julio Arguiñariz	1952			IN THE	1991	0	0
Gonzalo Carlos Arias Duval				IN THE	2002	0	0
Gerardo Barbero	1961-2001	GM	1987			1	0
Víctor Adrián Barria				IN THE	2014	0	0
Pablo Barrionuevo	1984	IN THE	2011			0	0
Gustavo Bartis				IN THE	1967	0	0
Celia Baudot de Moschini	1910-2006	WIM	1954			0	6th
David Beaumont				GM	2007	0	0
Albert Becker	1896-1984	IN THE	1953			0	0		Austria (until 1938), German Empire
Julio Benedetti	1995	IN THE	2015			0	0
Francisco Benko	1910-2010					0	0	2520	German Empire (until 1936)
Germán Fabián Benz				GM	2002	0	0
Rubén Berdichesky	1938			GM	1998	0	0
María Berea de Montero	1914-1983	WIM	1952			0	1
Ángel Hugo Bericat				SIM	2002	0	0
Miguel Bernat	1957	IN THE	1978			0	0
Juan Manuel Bertorello	1974	FM	2009	SIM	2003	0	0
Guadalupe Besso	1998	WIM	2016			0	0
Guillermo Bianchi	1958	IN THE	1991			0	0
Carlos Bielicki	1940	IN THE	1959			0	0
Rodolfo Eduardo Binelli				IN THE	2002	0	0
Martin Bitelmajer	1988	IN THE	2019			0	0
Gabriel Sergio Blasberg				GM	1998	0	0
Jacques Blit	1990	IN THE	2011			0	0
Carlos Boissonet	1969	IN THE	1985			0	0
Jacobo Bolbochan	1906-1984	IN THE	1965			2	0
Julio Bolbochan	1920-1996	HGM	1977			2	0
Wálter Fabián Bonatti	1969			IN THE	1997	0	0
Adolfo Bormida				IN THE	2000	0	0
Fernando Braga	1958	IN THE	1983			0	0		Italy (since 1987)
Daniel Roberto Britten				IN THE	2002	0	0
Milagros Tatiana Brizzi	1996	WIM	2014			0	0
Luis Marcos Bronstein	1946-2014	IN THE	1978			0	0
Pablo Buj	1933			SIM	1999	0	0
Osvaldo Buraschi				SIM	2003	0	0
Liliana Burijovich	1965	WIM	1990			0	5
Alcires Miguel Calua				IN THE	1996	0	0
Daniel Cámpora	1957	GM	1986			2	0
Luis María Campos Gambuti	1967	IN THE	2001			0	0		Spain (since 2000)
Gustavo Roman Cano de Meio				IN THE	1996	0	0
Denise Carraro	1988	WIM	2008			0	0
Aldo Guillermo Cassola				IN THE	2002	0	0
Juan Antonio Castro Torres	1940			IN THE	2001	0	0
Daniel Roberto Chan				IN THE	2002	0	0
Mariana Cherati	1973					0	1
Marino Alejandro Cid	1958	IN THE	1990			0	0
Alfredo Civitillo				SIM	2010	0	0
Jorge Enrique Clarizza				SIM	1999	0	0
Raúl Claverie	1983	IN THE	2009			0	0
Fernando Colombo-Berra				IN THE	2001	0	0
Daniel Contin	1962	IN THE	1993			0	0		Italy (since 1993)
José Antonio Copié	1941			GM	2000	0	0
Hugo Feliciano Cordoba	1938			IN THE	1991	0	0
Wálter Cornejo	1962			GM	2011	0	0
Lucas Coro	2001	IN THE	2019			0	0
Carlos Léon Cranbourne	1956	FM	1990	SIM	1999	0	0
Ramón José Crespo				SIM	2001	0	0
José María Cristiá	1907-1984					0	0	2569
Raúl Ceferino Cruz	1934-1985					0	0	2534
Tomás Darcyl	1964	IN THE	1993			0	0
Alejo De Dovitiis	1970	IN THE	2006			0	0
Odile De Heilbronner						0	1
Roberto Debarnot	1947-2018	IN THE	1977			0	0
Jorge Eduardo Deforel				IN THE	1998	0	0
Diego Del Rey	1972	IN THE	2010			0	0		Spain (since 2005)
German Della Morte	1989	IN THE	2008			0	0
Pablo Della Morte	1982	IN THE	2013			0	0
José Ángel Diani				SIM	1999	0	0
Sergio Díaz	1955			SIM	2011	0	0
Nahuel Díaz Hollemaert	1976	IN THE	2003			0	0		Uruguay (since 2019)
Cristian Dolezal	1973	IN THE	2007			0	0
Ezequiel Martín Domancich				IN THE	2013	0	0
Mauricio Dorín	1960-2014	IN THE	1998			0	0
Ramiro dos Santos	1975	IN THE	2010			0	0
Leonardo Duarte	1987	IN THE	2007			0	0
Gustavo Fabián Echeguren	1962			GM	2003	0	0
Erich Eliskases	1913-1997	GM	1952			0	0		Austria (until 1938, 1945–1950), German Reich (1938–1945)
Jaime Emma	1938-2005	IN THE	1978			1	0
Juan Andrés Enricci				SIM	1999	0	0
Carlos Alejandro Espíndola				IN THE	2001	0	0
Marcelo Jorge Esses				IN THE	1998	0	0
Guillermo Augusto Etchechoury				SIM	2013	0	0
Movsas Feigins	1908-1950					0	0		Latvia (until 1939 or 1940)
Rubén Felgaer	1981	GM	2002			5	0
Virgilio Fenoglio	1902-1990					0	0	2518
María Florencia Fernández	1991	WIM	2013			0	2
Juan Alberto Fernández Fornés				IN THE	1997	0	0
Hernán Filgueira	1970	IN THE	2009			0	0
José Daniel Finkelstein				IN THE	1998	0	0
Fabian Fiorito	1969	IN THE	1990			0	0
Diego Flores	1982	GM	2008			4th	0
Alberto Foguelman	1923-2013	IN THE	1963			0	0
Paulino Frydman	1905-1982	IN THE	1955			0	0		Poland (until 1939 or early 1940s)
Leonardo Fusco	1988-2013	IN THE	2009			0	0
Alfredo Gaal	1956			IN THE	2002	0	0
Rodolfo Garbarino	1963	IN THE	1982			0	0
Raimundo García	1936	IN THE	1964			1	0
Carlos Garcia Palermo	1953	GM	1985			0	0		Italy (1989–1998, since 2005)
Juan Pablo Garmendia				IN THE	2000	0	0
Alfredo Giaccio	1970	GM	2013			0	0
Sergio Giardelli	1955-2015	IN THE	1988			0	0
Dante Manuel Giménez	1953			IN THE	2000	0	0
Alejo Ismael Giménez Aguirre	2000	IN THE	2019			0	0
Maximiliano Ginzburg	1976	IN THE	1994			0	0
Pablo Glavina	1968	IN THE	1992			0	0		Spain (since 2018)
Christian Goldwaser	1989	IN THE	2009			0	0
Gustavo Daniel Gomez				IN THE	2003	0	0
Jorge Gomez Baillo	1959	IN THE	1986			1	0
Claudio Javier Gonçalves	1962			IN THE	2001	0	0
Alberto H. González				IN THE	1998	0	0
Sonja Graf	1908-1965	WIM	1950			0	0		German Empire (until 1939), United States (from 1947)
Roberto Gray	1900-1944					6th	0
Raúl Grosso				SIM	2004	0	0
Carlos Guimard	1913-1998	GM	1960			3	0
Rogelio Antonio Guzzardo	* 1931, † between 2001 and 2003			IN THE	1998	0	0
Juan Carlos Rabbit	1948	IN THE	1982			0	0
Marcelo Hedrera				IN THE	2000	0	0
Pedro Federico Hegoburu	1969			SIM	2004	0	0
Sabina Hernandez Penna	1973	WIM	1998			0	0		Italy (2005 to 2018), Switzerland (since 2018)
Juan Pablo Hobaica	1974	IN THE	2007			0	0
Alejandro Hoffman	1966	GM	1998			0	0		Uruguay (since 2018)
Soledad Huguet González	1934	WIM	1957			0	2
Sebastian Iermito	1993	IN THE	2008			0	0
Juan Iliesco	1898-1968					1	0
Roberto Juan Jacquin				GM	2009	0	0
Carlos Eleodoro Juarez	1938					1	0
Ernesto Juliá	1961-2018	IN THE	2013			0	0
Virginia Justo	1963	WIM	1982			0	4th
Gustavo Kanefsck	1967	IN THE	1998			0	0
Aída Karguer						0	4th
Anton Kovalyov	1992	GM	2008			0	0		Canada (since 2013)
Alejandro Antonio Kozlowicz				IN THE	1994	0	0
Leandro Krysa	1992	GM	2017			0	0
Martín Labollita	1980	IN THE	2000			1	0
Pablo Lafuente	1985	GM	2008			0	0
Daniel Langier	1974	IN THE	1996			0	0
Jorge Laplaza	* 1943 or 1944, † 2007			IN THE	1992	0	0
Alberto Laurencena	1925-2005			IN THE	1987	0	0
Domingo Daniel Leal				IN THE	2002	0	0
Julia Lebel-Arias	1946	WIM	1985			0	4th		France (1983-2002), Monaco (since 2002)
Damian Lemos	1990	GM	2009			0	0
Mario Leskovar	1950	IN THE	1993			0	0
Alfredo Lewkowitz	1919-1991			IN THE	1982	0	0
Lucas Liascovich	1984	IN THE	2005			0	0
Guillermo Llanos	1961	IN THE	1993			0	0
Carlos Francisco Lobato Vildoza				IN THE	2000	0	0
Liliana Susana Fredes de Locio				LGM	2010	0	0
Pedro Antonio Lopepé	1942			SIM	1999	0	0
Gabriela López	1975					0	1
Martín Lorenzini	1975	GM	2014			1	0
Marcos Luckis	1905-1973					0	0	2560	Lithuania (until 1941)
Carolina Luján	1985	IN THE	2007			0	5
Norberto Horacio Luzuriaga	1950			IN THE	2003	0	0
Ricardo Luis Macayo				IN THE	2013	0	0
Carlos Maderna	1910-1976					2	0
Fabricio Iván Magallanes				IN THE	2014	0	0
Elisa Maggiolo	1980	WIM	2000			0	2
Gustavo Mahia	1961	IN THE	2011			0	0
Sandra Malajovich	1968	WIM	2003			0	0
Guillermo Malbran	1957	IN THE	2001			1	0
Jorge Bartolomé Marcussi	1933-1994			IN THE	1976	0	0
Sandro Mareco	1987	GM	2010			1	0
Luis Marini	1912-1990					0	0	2539
Juan Alberto Martello				IN THE	2004	0	0
Ayelén Martínez	1993	WIM	2013			0	1
Carlos Alejandro Martínez	1955	IN THE	2004			0	0		Brazil (since 1991)
Patrick Mary				SIM	2014	0	0
Benjamin Mela	1978	IN THE	2006			0	0
Ernesto Méndez	1960	IN THE	1998			0	0
Daniel Menéndez	1967			SIM	2006	0	0
Anahí Meza	1985	WFM	2001			0	1
Pablo Michel	1905-1977	IN THE	1956			0	0		German Empire (until 1939)
Alberto Luis Milher				IN THE	2003	0	0
Claudio Javier Minzer	1968	IN THE	1996			0	0
René Ángel Molo				IN THE	2000	0	0
Javier Moreno Carnero	1975	GM	2003			0	0		Spain (since 2003)
Juan Sebastian Morgado	1947	FM	1984	GM	1983	0	0
Alfredo José Mozzino				GM	2000	0	0
Julio Alberto Muhana	1946			IN THE	1982	0	0
Guillermo César Muttoni				IN THE	1997	0	0
Miguel Najdorf	1910-1997	GM	1950			8th	0		Poland (until 1944)
Alejandro Needleman	1965	IN THE	2007			0	0
Gaston Needleman	1990	IN THE	2007			0	0
Andrés Carlos Obregón	1986	GM	2014			0	0
Carlos Paglilla	1954	IN THE	1989			0	0
Luis Argentino Palau	1896-1971	IN THE	1965			0	0
Marcelo Panelo	1973	IN THE	2005			0	0
Óscar Panno	1935	GM	1955			3	0
Carlos G. Pappier				SIM	2013	0	0
Carlos Gérman Pappier				GM	1994	0	0
Pedro Parnenzini				IN THE	2001	0	0
Norberto Eugenio Patrici				GM	1997	0	0
Kevin Paveto	1992	IN THE	2015			0	0
Jorge Pelican	1906-1984	IN THE	1965			0	0		Czechoslovakia (until 1939)
Fernando Peralta	1979	GM	2004			1	0
Leandro Perdomo	1985	IN THE	2006			0	0
Federico Pérez Ponsa	1993	GM	2012			0	0
Diego Pereyra Arcija	1977	IN THE	1996			0	0
Manuel Miguel Pereyra Puebla	1916-1997			IN THE	1982	0	0
Luis Piazzini	1905-1980					1	0
Carlos Alberto Piccón				IN THE	1995	0	0
Alan Pichot	1998	GM	2016			0	0
Facundo Pierrot	1975	IN THE	1996			0	0
Alfredo Manuel Pietrobono	* 1932 or 1933; † 2018			SIM	2002	0	0
Herman Pilnik	1914-1981	GM	1952			3	0
Marcelo Playa	1973	IN THE	1997			0	0
María de los Ángeles Plazaola	1986	WIM	2009			0	3
Isaías Pleci	1907-1979	IN THE	1965			2	0
Miguel Quinteros	1947	GM	1973			2	0
Facundo Quiroga	1957	IN THE	1998			0	0
Abraham Raúl Ramírez	1920-2013			SIM	1999	0	0
Ernesto Real de Azúa	1985	IN THE	2007			0	0
Mauricio Rebord				SIM	2007	0	0
Damián Reca	1894-1937					4th	0
Rodolfo Argentino Redolfi	1928-2013			GM	1994	0	0
Heinrich Reinhardt	1903-1990					0	0	2518	German Empire (until 1939)
Pablo Ricardi	1962	GM	1985			5	0
Carlos Alberto Rinaldi	1941			SIM	1999	0	0
Rogelio Santo Ristorto				IN THE	2002	0	0
Alfredo Roca	1957	FM	1984	GM	1998	0	0
Horacio Daniel Rocca				SIM	2004	0	0
Luis Ernesto Rodi	1968	IN THE	2011	IN THE	2011	0	0		Uruguay (since 2014)
Guillermo Daniel Rodríguez				IN THE	2000	0	0
Jorge Luís Rodríguez	1960	FM	1987	IN THE	2002	0	0
Jorge Rosito	1970	IN THE	1998			0	0
Héctor Rossetto	1922-2009	GM	1960			5	0
Jorge Rubinetti	1945-2016	IN THE	1969			4th	0
Eduardo Saglione				SIM	2013	0	0
Horacio Saldaño Dayer	1973	IN THE	2001			0	0		Spain (since 2005)
José Julio Sánchez				IN THE	2001	0	0
Jorge Sánchez Almeyra	1968	IN THE	1990			0	0
Raúl Sanguineti	1933-2000	HGM	1982			7th	0
María Belén Sarquis	1988	WIM	2006			0	0
Enrique Alejandro Scarella	1972	IN THE	2001			0	0
Aaron Schwartzman	1908-2013					0	0	2571
Paulette Schwartzmann	1894-1953					0	4th		Russian Empire (until 1918), Soviet Union (until 1932), France (1932 – between 1939 and 1948)
Samuel Schweber	1936-2017	IN THE	1961			0	0
Eduardo Bautista Secchi Vigneau	1913-11984			IN THE	1961	0	0
Roberto Servat	1968	IN THE	1991			0	0
Karel Skalička	1896-1979					0	0	2606	Czechoslovakia (until at least 1939)
Sergio Slipak	1965	GM	2001			0	0
Edith Soppe	1961-2005	WIM	1978			0	3
Guillermo Soppe	1960	IN THE	1987			2	0
Ariel Sorin	1967	GM	1995			2	0
Maxim Sorokin	1968-2007	GM	1992			0	0		Soviet Union (until 1992), Russia (1992–1997, from 2003)
Tomás Sosa	1998	IN THE	2016			0	0
Hugo Spangenberg	1975	GM	1996			1	0
Jorge Szmetan	1950-2015	IN THE	1976			1	0
Ricardo Szmetan	1952-2010	FM	1982			0	0		Barbados (from 2001)
Domingo Osvaldo Taiana				IN THE	2001	0	0
Marcelo Tempone	1962	IN THE	1980			1	0
Héctor Raúl Tepper				IN THE	2002	0	0
Ricardo Remigio Tosti				IN THE	2001	0	0
Dora Trepat de Navarro	1910-1971					0	8th
Leonardo Tristán	1989	GM	2020			0	0
Diego Valerga	1971	GM	2009			0	0
Francisco Varacalli	2001	IN THE	2019			0	0
Mauricio Vassallo Barroche	1966	IN THE	2001			0	0		Spain (since 2002)
Sergio Daniel Verducci Silvelo				SIM	2001	0	0
Mario Villanueva	1984	IN THE	2012			0	0
Benito Villegas	1877-1952					1	0
Franco Villegas	1998	IN THE	2016			0	0
Sandra Villegas	1972	WFM	2009			0	1
Juan Vinuesa						0	0	2539
Héctor Walsh				GM	2006	0	0
Bernardo Wexler	1925-1992	IN THE	1959			1	0
Héctor Ricardo Zabala				SIM	2001	0	0
Juan Carlos Zárate				IN THE	2002	0	0
Pablo Zarnicki	1972	GM	1994			0	0
Marianella Zuccoti				LIM	2013	0	0
Marisa Zuriel	1982	WIM	2006			0	2

See also

• List of Argentine champions in chess

Web links

Commons : Argentine Chess Players  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Argentine top 100 men and women (Elo list, active and inactive)
• Argentine top 100 women (Elo list, active and inactive)
• Correspondence chess title holder at the International Correspondence Chess Federation (English)
• Overview ( memento from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) of Argentinian masters (until 2006, Spanish)
• Overview ( Memento from May 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) of Argentine women champions (until 2006, Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fernando Braga won the Italian individual championship twice.
2. ↑ Erich Eliskases won three Austrian and two German individual championships.
3. ↑ Movsas Feigins won the Latvian individual championship once.
4. ↑ Sonja Graf won the United States Women's Championship twice.
5. ↑ In the obituary in La Nación of May 21, 2007, Jorge Laplaza was born as 1943. In FIDE , 1944 was given as the year of birth.
6. ↑ Julia Lebel-Arias also won the French women's championship three times.
7. ↑ Carolina Luján has also had the WGM title since 2005.
8. ↑ Paulette Schwartzmann also won the French women's championship three times.
9. ↑ Ricardo Szmetan won the Barbadian championship once.