Óscar Panno

Óscar Panno, Amsterdam 1977
Surname	Óscar Roberto Panno
Association	Argentina
Born	March 17, 1935 Buenos Aires
title	International Master (1954) Grand Master (1955)
Current  Elo rating	2438 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2585 ​​(July 1973)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Óscar Roberto Panno (born March 17, 1935 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine chess master and one of the most successful South American chess players.

Life

In 1953, at the age of 18, Panno won the National Championship of Argentina and the Junior World Championship . In 1954 he became an international master . The following year he qualified for the interzonal tournament in Gothenburg , where he finished third behind Dawid Bronstein and Paul Keres and qualified for the candidates ' tournament in Amsterdam a year later. In 1955 he was awarded the title of Grand Master by the World Chess Federation FIDE for this great success . At the Candidates Tournament in Amsterdam in 1956, he was ninth.

Panno, who pursued a middle-class profession (he completed his engineering degree in 1962) and never became a professional chess player, made four more leaps into the interzonal tournament: 1958, 1970 , 1973 and 1976, but the result of 1955 remained his best. He achieved significant success in international tournaments : in 1958 he won in Bogotá ahead of William Lombardy and Miguel Najdorf . In 1971 he won together with Ljubomir Ljubojević in Palma de Mallorca .

Panno was a multiple member of the Argentine selection in international competitions. From 1954 in Amsterdam until the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manila he played in eleven Chess Olympiads for Argentina. He won one silver and two ( 1958 and 1962 ) bronze medals with the team in 1954 . At the 1966 Chess Olympiad in Havana he achieved the best result on the second board, in 1958 he also achieved the third best result on the second board. He also took part in the 1985 World Team Championship and three Pan-American Team Championships (1971, 1985 and 1991), which he won with the Argentine team in 1971 and 1985. He won the championship of Argentina again in 1975 (shared with Najdorf) and 1985.

Two variants in the King's Indian Defense are named after Panno :

• 1. d2 – d4 Ng8 – f6 2. c2 – c4 g7 – g6 3. Nb1 – c3 Bf8 – g7 4. Ng1 – f3 d7 – d6 5. g2 – g3 0–0 6. Bf1 – g2 Nb8 – c6 7. 0–0 a7 – a6 (the Panno variant of the Fianchetto system) and
• 1. d2 – d4 Ng8 – f6 2. c2 – c4 g7 – g6 3. Nb1 – c3 Bf8 – g7 4. e2 – e4 d7 – d6 5. f2 – f3 0–0 6. Bc1 – e3 Nb8 – c6 (the Panno variant of the Sämisch system).

Panno has not played an Elo rated game since July 2008 and is therefore listed as inactive at FIDE. His best historical rating before the Elo was introduced was 2680 in October 1955.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 74.
2. ↑ http://esc22de15felixdeazara.blogspot.de/2012_07_01_archive.html
3. ↑ Óscar Pannos results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Óscar Pannos results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Óscar Pannos results at Pan-American team championships on olimpbase.org (English)

Web links

Commons : Óscar Panno  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Replayable chess games by Óscar Panno on chessgames.com (English)