Arturo Reggio (9 January 1863 – 17 July 1917) was an Italian

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player. Born in

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, then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he started playing chess as an engineering student at the

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and at the Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute of

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, both in

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. After he settled in Milan in the 1890s, he joined the ''Societá Scacchistica Milanese'' and edited a chess column for the magazine ''La Bicicletta'', since 1898. At the beginning of the 20th century, Reggio was an unofficial Italian Chess Champion. He won five times in the strongest national tournaments: at Rome 1900 (1st ''Torneo dell'USI''), Venice 1901 (2nd ''Torneo dell'USI''), Florence 1905 (3rd ''Torneo dell'USI''), Bologna 1913 (2nd ''Torneo "L'Italia Scacchistica"''), and Milan 1916 (1st ''Torneo Nazionale "Crespi"''). He also took 3rd at Milan 1906 (4th ''Torneo dell'USI'',

Giovanni Martinolich Giovanni Martinolich (22 June 1884 – 25 July 1910) was a chess master from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was born in Trieste (then Austria-Hungary Empire), the son of Dr Giovanni Martinolich (Padrincich or Padrinzi of Lussinpiccolo), a lawyer ...

won), took 3rd at Rome 1911 (5th ''Torneo dell'USI'', Matteo Gladig won), won at Bologna 1912 (''torneo interregionale'') and won at Milan 1912 (''torneo cittadino''). Reggio played in several international tournaments where took 11th at Monte Carlo 1901 (

Dawid Janowski Dawid Markelowicz Janowski (25 May 1868 – 15 January 1927; often spelled ''David'') was a Polish-born French chess player. The Janowski variations of the Old Indian Defense and of the Queen's Gambit Declined are named after him. Biography B ...

won), took 19th at Monte Carlo 1902 (

Géza Maróczy Géza Maróczy (; 3 March 1870 – 29 May 1951) was a Hungarian chess player, one of the leading players in the world in his time. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Early career G� ...

won), took 13th at Monte Carlo 1903 (

Siegbert Tarrasch Siegbert Tarrasch (; 5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century. Life Tarrasch was born in Bresla ...

won), tied for 7-8th at Barmen 1905 (Masters B, Leo Fleischmann won), took 8th at Scheveningen 1905 (

Frank James Marshall Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century. Chess career Marshall was born in New York Cit ...

won), took 9th at Ostend 1906 (elim.,

Carl Schlechter Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker. Early life Sch ...

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