Pablo Ricardi
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Pablo Ricardi is an Argentine chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

He won the 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...

 five times (1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, and 1999), and was a sub-champion in 2005.
He also won or shared first at La Paz
La Paz
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 1987 (Pan American Chess Championship
Pan American Chess Championship
The first Pan-American Championship was held in Hollywood, 28 July - 12 August 1945. The line-up was as follows: 1. Samuel Reshevsky 10.5, 2. Reuben Fine 9, 3. Herman Pilnik 8.5, 4. Israel Horowitz 8, 5. Isaac Kashdan 7, 6. Hector Rossetto 6.5, 7-8. Weaver Adams , Herman Steiner 5.5, 9-10....

), Buenos Aires 1991 (Seventh International Konex Master Chess Open Tournament
Konex chess tournament
The first Konex Master Chess Tournament organised by the Konex Foundation started off in Buenos Aires in 1977. The foundation sponsored Marcelo Tempone, World Chess Champion Junior, for further training and so as to participate in international tournaments , the Argentine Team to the Olympiads for...

), Villa Gesell 1996, Buenos Aires 2003, and Santiago de Chile 2006.

Ricardi played eleven times for Argentina
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...

 in Chess Olympiads, from 1984 to 2006. He twice represented Argentina in Panamerican Team Chess Championship, and won team gold medal at Villa Gesell
Villa Gesell
Villa Gesell is a seaside village in Villa Gesell Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It was founded in 1931, afforestating a dune field. The growth of the city allowed it to annex the nearby cities of Mar de las Pampas, Las Gaviotas and Mar Azul....

 1985, team silver medal at Cascavel
Cascavel
Cascavel is a city and municipality in western Paraná state, Brazil. The population is 296.975 inhabitants.The city is on a plateau 781 meters above sea level...

 1995, and two individual gold medals there.

He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1997.

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