Carlo Micheli (born 15 September 1946) is an Italian

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 to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

FIDE Master (FM) and two-time Italian Chess Championship winner (1972, 1973).

Biography

In the 1970s, Carlo Micheli was one of the strongest Italian chess players. He won the Italian Chess Championship twice in a row: 1972 and 1973. Carlo Micheli won the Italian Team Chess Championships with the chess club ''Circolo Scacchistico Marosticense'' / ''VIMAR Marostica'' in 1993 and 1997. Carlo Micheli played for Italy in the Chess Olympiads: * In 1972, at the fourth board in the

20th Chess Olympiad The 20th Chess Olympiad ( mk, 20. Шаховска олимпијада, ''20. Šahovska olimpijada''), organized by Fédération Internationale des Échecs, FIDE and comprising an open team tournament, as well as several other events designed t ...

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(+1, =4, -7), * In 1976, at the fourth board in the

22nd Chess Olympiad The 22nd Chess Olympiad ( he, אולימפיאדת השחמט ה-22, ''Olimpiada ha-shachmat ha-22''), organized by Fédération Internationale des Échecs, FIDE, took place between October 26 and November 10, 1976, in Haifa, Israel. For the firs ...

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

(+2, =2, -5). Carlo Micheli played for Italy in the

Clare Benedict Cup The Clare Benedict Cup was a chess tournament for national teams from Western and Northern Europe, which took place 23 times from 1953 to 1979. Overview and History Foundation Clare Benedict (1871–1961), author and patron, was originally fro ...

: * In 1973, at the second board in the 20th Clare Benedict Cup in Gstaad (+0, =0, -6). Carlo Micheli is Vice President of the ''Città di Marostica'' chess club. Under his leadership, the team from

Marostica Marostica (; vec, Maròstega ), is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy. It is mostly famous for its live chess event and for the local cherry variety. History Between the 11th and 13th centuries, the loca ...

won the Italian Team Chess Championships in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2007.

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Carlo Micheli
chess games at 365chess.com 1946 births Living people Sportspeople from Bruneck Italian chess players Chess FIDE Masters Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century chess players {{Italy-chess-bio-stub