What is Oscar Panno?
[[File:Oscar Panno en su juventud.jpg|right|200px]] '''Oscar Roberto Panno''' (born 17 March 1935) is an [[Argentina|Argentine]] [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]]. Panno was the first top world chess player born in [[South America]]. Panno won the 2nd [[World Junior Chess Championship]] in 1953. Panno was born in [[Buenos Aires]]. Panno has several successes at the [[Mar del Plata chess tournaments|tournaments at Mar del Plata]]. He won the international tournaments in 1954 and 1969 (shared with [[Miguel Najdorf]]), and the open tournaments in 1986, 1988, and 1994. Panno played eleven times for Argentina in [[Chess Olympiad]]s (1954–58, 1962, 1966–70, 1976, 1986–88, 1992).<ref>[http://www.olimpbase.org/players/82yekggc.html Men's Chess Olympiads: Oscar Panno]</ref> The 1954 Olympiad team won the silver medal, while the 1958 and 1962 teams won the bronze medal. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Panno, Oscar}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Chess grandmasters]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Buenos Aires]] {{sports-bio-stub}}