Héctor Rossetto

Héctor Decio Rossetto (8 September 1922 in Bahía Blanca, Argentina – 23 January 2009 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine chess player.

Héctor Rossetto
Full name	Héctor Decio Rossetto
Country	Argentina
Born	8 September 1922 (1922-09-08) Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Died	23 January 2009 (2009-01-24) (aged 86) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Title	Grandmaster (1960)
Peak rating	2465 (July 1972)

He earned the title of International Master in 1950 and the Grandmaster title in 1960.

He was a five-time Argentine Champion (1942, 1944, 1947, 1962, and 1972). ^[1] Rossetto won the Mar del Plata chess tournament in 1949 and again in 1952 (shared with Julio Bolbochán). He also won in Mar del Plata (KIM) in 1962.^[2] In 1964, he qualifield for the Interzonal Tournament in Amsterdam.^[3]

He was the director of the 1978 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires.

He was a player from the "golden age" of chess in Argentina, led by Miguel Najdorf, with Erich Eliskases, Hermann Pilnik, Carlos Guimard, Julio Bolbochán, and young Oscar Panno.