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 1950 year, for except 1952 year. The Argentine Chess Championship is organized by the

Argentine Chess Federation The Argentine Chess Federation ( es, Federación Argentina de Ajedrez, link=no – ''FADA'') is the national organisation for chess in Argentina. It is affiliated with the World Chess Federation. Its headquarters are in Buenos Aires. The Argentine ...

Matches winners (1921–1953)

The results of the matches were as follows: 1921/22 Damian Reca – Benito Villegas 5 : 2 1922 Benito Villegas – Lizardo Molina Carranza 6.5 : 1.5 (extra-official match) 1924 Damián Reca – Benito Villegas 5 : 3 1924

Richard Réti Richard Selig Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian, chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exc ...

(CSR) – Damián Reca 2.5 : 0.5 (non-official match) 1925 Damián Reca – Julio Lynch 5.5 : 2.5 (extra-official match) 1926

Roberto Grau Roberto Gabriel Grau (18 March 1900 – 12 April 1944) was an Argentine chess master. He was born and died in Buenos Aires. Chess career Grau played in many Argentine championships. In 1921/22, he tied for 3rd–4th (ARG-ch 1 Mayor; Damian ...

– Damián Reca 5 : 3 1927/28 Damián Reca resigned to play a match for the title. 1929 Roberto Grau –

Isaías Pleci Isaías Pleci (also Isaías Pléci) (27 October 1907 – 27 December 1979) was an Argentine chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective ...

4 : 0 1930 Isaías Pléci – Roberto Grau 5 : 3 1931 Isaías Pléci – Virgilio Fenoglio 6 : 4 1931/32

Jacobo Bolbochán Jacobo Bolbochán (26 December 1906 – 29 July 1984) was an Argentine chess master. He played many times in the Argentine Chess Championships. He won twice (1931 and 1932), both ahead of Isaías Pleci. In 1933, he took 2nd, behind Luis Piazzini. ...

– Isaías Pléci 6 : 3 1932 Jacobo Bolbochán – Isaías Pléci 5.5 : 1.5 1933 Luis Piazzini – Jacobo Bolbochán 5.5 : 2.5 1934/35 Roberto Grau – Luis Piazzini 7.5 : 5.5 1935 Jacobo Bolbochán – Isaías Pléci 2.5 : 0.5 (play-off) 1936 Roberto Grau – Jacobo Bolbochán 5 : 3 1937

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 Champi ...

– Roberto Grau 6 : 2 1938 Carlos Guimard – Luis Piazzini 7.5 : 2.5 (Jacobo Bolbochán resigned) 1939 Roberto Grau – Carlos Guimard 7.5 : 5.5 1939 ''Triangular'' 1. Maderna, 2. Piazzini, 3. Gerschman (play-off) 1940

Carlos Maderna Carlos Hugo Maderna (4 August 1910 – 23 January 1976) was an Argentine chess master. Chess Career He was twice Argentine Champion; in 1940 he won a match for the title (of 1939) against Luis Piazzini (8 : 6), then lost a match to Car ...

– Luis Piazzini 8 : 6 (Roberto Grau resigned) 1940 ''Triangular'' 1. Carlos Guimard, 2.

Aristide Gromer Aristide Gromer (Dunkirk, 11 April 1908 – ?) was a French chess master. Gromer was thrice French Champion (1933, 1937, and 1938). He tied for 5-6th at Paris 1923 ( Victor Kahn won), took 3rd at Biarritz 1926 (André Chéron and Frederic Lazard ...

(FRA), 3.

Franciszek Sulik Franciszek (Frank) Sulik (1908– 16 July 1997) was a Polish-Australian chess master. Career 1934–1938 Before World War II, he lived in Lviv. In 1934, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Henryk Friedman, behind Stepan Popel, in the Lviv champion ...

(POL) (play-off) 1941 Carlos Guimard – Carlos Maderna 8 : 1 1942

Héctor Rossetto 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. He was a five-ti ...

– Carlos Guimard 8 : 5 (Rossetto took 3rd place, behind

Markas Luckis Markas (Marcos) Luckis (17 January 1905, in Pskov – 9 February 1973, in Buenos Aires) was a Lithuanian–Argentine chess master. Biography Luckis twice won the Kaunas City Chess Championship in 1927 and 1928. Markas Luckis played for Lithua ...

(LTU) and

Hermann Pilnik Hermann Pilnik (8 January 1914, Stuttgart, Germany – 12 November 1981, Caracas, Venezuela) was a German Argentine chess Grandmaster. Career In 1929, he won the championship of Stuttgart. Pilnik emigrated from Germany to Argentina in 1930. He ...

(GER) in ARG-ch 20th Mayor in 1941) 1942 Hermann Pilnik (former German, then Argentine citizen) won, ahead of

Juan Traian Iliesco Juan Traian Iliesco (born Ion Traian Iliescu) (18 April 1898 in Brăila, Romania – 2 February 1968 in La Plata) was a Romanian Argentine chess master. He played several times in Argentine Chess Championship, Argentine championships (''Torneo Mayo ...

(ROM) 1943 Juan Iliesco (former Romanian, then Argentine citizen) took 2nd place, behind

Gideon Ståhlberg Anders Gideon Tom Ståhlberg (26 January 1908 – 26 May 1967) was a Swedish chess player. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. He won the Swedish Chess Championship of 1927, became Nor ...

(SWE) 1944 Héctor Rossetto – Juan Iliesco 4.5 : 0.5 1946 Hermann Pilnik – Héctor Rossetto 5 : 3 1948

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

– Héctor Rossetto 5 : 5 1949

Miguel Najdorf Miguel Najdorf (born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf) (15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish–Argentinian 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 ...

(former Polish, then Argentine citizen) – Julio Bolbochán 5.5 : 4.5 1951 ''Triangular'' 1. Carlos Maderna, 2. Jacobo Bolbochán, 3. Enrique Reinhardt (play-off) 1953 Miguel Najdorf – Rubén Shocrón 4.5 : 0.5

Argentine champions and winners of Challenger's selection tournament (1921–1953)

Men's tournaments winners (1950- )

Women

Notes

References

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