Jorge Rubinetti
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Jorge Alberto Rubinetti is an Argentine
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 chess
Chess
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 master.

He won four times Argentine Chess Championship
Argentine Chess Championship
The first Argentine Chess Championship was held in 1921. The Champion's title was granted after victorious or drawn match between previous champion and challenger, a winner of Torneo Mayor...

 (1971, 1982, 1988, and 1991) and played eight times for Argentina in Chess Olympiads (1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1980, 1982, 1988, and 1992).

In 1975, he won in Quito. Rubinetti took 9th at Buenos Aires / Rio Hondo 1966 (the 6th Torneio Zonal Sulamericano, Henrique Mecking
Henrique Mecking
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, Julio Bolbochan
Julio Bolbochan
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, Oscar Panno
Oscar Panno
Oscar R. Panno is an Argentine chess Grandmaster.Panno won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1953, and also won the championship of Argentina the same year....

, and Alberto Foguelman
Alberto Foguelman
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 won), took 5th at Mar del Plata 1969 (zonal, Miguel Najdorf
Miguel Najdorf
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 and Panno won), took 23rd at Palma de Mallorca 1970 (interzonal, Robert James Fischer won), tied for 4-6th at São Paulo 1972 (zonal, Mecking won), shared 3rd at Moron 1982 (zonal, Miguel Quinteros
Miguel Quinteros
Miguel Quinteros is an Argentine chess grandmaster.He won the Argentine Chess Championship at the age of 18 and in 1969 took eighth place at the Mar del Plata Zonal tournament...

 won, and tied for 12-13th at Toluca 1982 (interzonal, Lajos Portisch
Lajos Portisch
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 and Eugenio Torre
Eugenio Torre
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 won).

He won at Quito 1975, tied for 3rd-4th at Mar del Plata 1976, and won a match against Francisco Trois (2.5 : 1.5) at Porto Alegre 1976.

Awarded the International Master title in 1969.
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