Eros Riccio
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Eros Riccio is an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster
International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster
International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster is a title created by the FIDE in 1953, second only to that of world correspondence champion. Now awarded by the International Correspondence Chess Federation.-American ICCGMs:* Hans Jack Berliner, GM 1968...

, Freestyle Chess Champion and opening book author . He is FICGS World Champion and ICCF
International Correspondence Chess Federation
International Correspondence Chess Federation was founded in 1951 as a new appearance of the ICCA , which was founded in 1945, as successor of the IFSB , founded in 1928....

 vice-European Champion with the Italian national team.

Riccio won the fourth and fifth FICGS Correspondence chess world championship (2011). He also won two ICCF Italian championships (2006) and (2009).

In the world online tournaments of Freestyle chess ("Advanced chess
Advanced Chess
Advanced Chess is a relatively new form of chess, wherein each human player uses a computer chess program to help him explore the possible results of candidate moves...

", created by GM Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist, and one of the greatest chess players of all time....

), Riccio won the first (2007) and the third edition (2010) of the FICGS Chess Freestyle Cup, the final of Computer Bild Spiele Schach Turnier (2008) and became the champion of the 8th PAL/CSS Freestyle Tournament (2008), winning the prestigious tournament sponsored by the PAL Group in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).

Riccio also won the Welcome Freestyle Tournament (2008), the Christmas Freestyle Tournament (2008) and 1st IC Freestyle Masters (2009) organized by nfinity Chess, the server directed by CCGM Arno Nickel
Arno Nickel
Arno Nickel is a German correspondence chess Grandmaster.Arno Nickel currently lives in Berlin and writes and publishes chess books through his well-known Edition Marco...

.

In July of 2009 Riccio (Auryn) beats Rechenschieber , the cluster of the Rybka team, a monster composed of very impressive 55 high-speed computers that function as a single powerful computer, and beats the Russian centaurs team, Highendman , which was the only one before him to beat the Rybka cluster.

ICCF titles

  • IM
    IM
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     (International Master, 2006)
  • SIM
    Sim
    -Computing and technology:*Scientific Instrument Module, an object used in spacecraft such as in the Apollo Command/Service Module*Security information management, a concept in computer security*Selected ion monitoring, a mass spectrometry scanning mode...

     (Senior International Master, 2006)
  • GM
    GM
    - Business and industry :* General manager* General merchandise* General Mills* General Motors, an automobile manufacturing company* Gold Master, an original recording from which copies may be made* Gross margin, profit as a percentage of sales price...

     (International Grandmaster, 2010)

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