PANEL Oscar

Born March 17, 1935 in Buenos Aires

World Junior champion in 1953, winner of international tournament in Buenos Aires 1968, Mallorca, 1971, Palma de Mallorca 1972.
Grandmaster since 1955, Mr..

Professional rating of 1 March 2001. - 2431
FIDE rating of 1 January 2001. - 2458


Oscar Panno occupies in the hearts of fans of chess from South America a special place. Certainly the Argentine was happy to have in their ranks and Najdorf and Pilnik (immigrants from distant Europe), but still wanted to see the emergence of truly "his" grand master. They became Oscar Panno. The beginning of his chess career was magical. At eighteen Oscar becomes a world champion among youths. Two years later he was sent to the interzonal tournament in the distant Gothenburg. Every chess player is usually a "Tournament Life. I think it was for the Panel interzonal 1955. Sure, we passed the competition, he takes the third place (way ahead of Geller, Petrosian and Spassky) and becomes a contender. However, the tournament contenders in Amsterdam turned to the Panel cruel disappointment - only the eighth place in the ten participating. Nevertheless, at its next interzonal Oscar arrives at the rank of one of the tournament favorites, but: Apparently statement in this inter-zonal Panel urges that with the strong of this world he did not compete. By this time he obtained a diploma in civil engineering and began work on a specialty.

Next ten years he has played only in small tournaments in South America. His return to the big chess orbit took place in the late sixties. Panel in excellent style wins a few representative round robin tournament. But why actually not? Class it is commonly known, and tension in such competitions in order of magnitude lower than in the selection of the world championship. Panel several times confidence is zoned (there with him is simply no one to match), but in the zonal play is rather "out of inertia". Today, unlike many players of his generation, who are reluctant to sit at the board, a panel continues to play an ordinary Swiss at home. Of course, the results are not the same, but probably as good young players to play with the legend of the South American chess!