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Monday, January 26, 2009

Translation - Chess Legend Dies in Argentina

Chess Legend Dies in Argentina

Falleció gloria del ajedrez en Argentina

Buenos Aires, Jan. 24 (PL) Five-time Argentine chess champion and gold medalist in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Grand Master Hector Rossetto, died today at 86 years old of a heart attack, sources confirmed.

Family and friends will hold a wake of Rosseto’s remains this Saturday in the capital’s Argentine Chess Club. He learned to move the pieces when he was four years old.

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