Oscar Panno

Trivia

• Panno tied for first at Lone Pine 1977.
• He played various more famous grandmasters, occasionally losing to them brilliantly.
• Panno was the first top world chess player born in South America.
• He was still active as of 2008, finishing third in the Bobby Fischer Memorial tournament held in Villa Martelli.
• He won the international tournaments in 1954 and 1969 (shared with Miguel Najdorf), and the open tournaments in 1986, 1988, and 1994.
• Panno has several successes at the tournaments at Mar del Plata.
• He had an Elo rating of around 2580 Elo in his prime, and of 2515 in 1986 and 2429 in 2008.
• He became a grandmaster at the age of twenty.
• Panno won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1953, and also won the championship of Argentina the same year.
• Is an Argentine chess Grandmaster.