An international tournament was held in Mogliano Veneto (near Venice, Italy) April 28th to May 1st. I played a nice game there, it is shown here.
I started playing chess at the age of six, but did not make any progress until 1984, when I played a couple of games with some friends and started thinking that I really liked the game. I then attended a course held by dr. Roberto Pastres, a Chemist and a chess Master, and began to play in Venezia's chess club "Esteban Canal", where dr. Antonio Rosino, a Math teacher and FIDE chess Master, helped me to gain insight in this wonderful game.
My first tournament was the Italian Chess Championship held by ARCI scacchi in Forli' in December 1984. I played with non classified opponents and scored 3 points in 6 games. After that a long row of tournaments have followed. In one year I become 3rd national category, in another I got to 2nd category, and in 1987 1st category. In 1988 I won the 1st category Mogliano chess tournament and become a Candidate Master.
Since then, I've played a lot of Magistral tournaments, but I never got to the first place (a second place once, though). My ELO rating has kept increasing, and it is currently 2120. Unfortunately Physics is a very time-consuming job, and I have played very rarely since 1993. My best results have been a 3.5/6 in a Magistral Chess Tournament in Mogliano, 1990, and a draw with a russian International Master, Deev (then 2435). My last tournament was Mogliano 1998, where I played 6 games. My results there:
- Dorigo - A.Caruso (M, 2324) 1/2
- K.Klundt (IM,2375) - Dorigo 1-0
- C.Bracaglia (CM,2000) - Dorigo 0-1
- Dorigo - A.Fabris (M,2225) 1/2
- A.Guerra (M,2175) - Dorigo 1-0
- E.Weinberg (CM,1950) - Dorigo 0-1
for a total score of 3/6 and a performance rating of about 2175.
I forgot to mention that I've always liked to compose chess problems. I never submitted any to chess composition tournaments, but some of my achievings are not that bad. You will find some here soon; for the time being let's just have one study: in the following position,
White to move and win. Solution
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