Pablo Ricardi


Pablo Ricardi is an Argentine chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster in 1985.
He won the Argentine Chess Championship five times, and was a sub-champion in 2005.
He also won or shared first at La Paz 1987, Buenos Aires 1991, Villa Gesell 1996, Buenos Aires 2003, and Santiago de Chile 2006.
Ricardi played eleven times for Argentina in Chess Olympiads, from 1984 to 2006. He twice represented Argentina in the Pan American Team Chess Championship, and won team gold medal at Villa Gesell 1985, team silver medal at Cascavel 1995, and two individual gold medals there.
Konex Foundation granted him the Platinum Konex Award in 2000 as the most important chess player of the decade.