Eros Riccio
Riccio in 2006
CountryItaly
Born (1977-12-01) December 1, 1977
Lucca, Italy
TitleICCF Grandmaster (2010)
ICCF rating2640 (July 2020)
ICCF peak rating2644 (April 2017)

Eros Riccio (born December 1, 1977, in Lucca) is an Italian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, Advanced Chess Champion and chess opening book author.[1] He is FICGS World Champion and ICCF vice-European Champion and Olympic bronze with the Italian national team.

Chess career

Riccio won the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth FICGS Correspondence Chess World Championship.[2] He also won three ICCF Italian championships (2006,[3] 2009[4] and 2012[5]).

In the world online tournaments of Freestyle chess ("Advanced chess", created by GM Garry Kasparov), Riccio won the first (2007) and the third edition (2010) of the FICGS Chess Freestyle Cup,[6] the final of Computer Bild Spiele Schach Turnier[7] (2008) and became the champion of the 8th PAL/CSS Freestyle Tournament[8] (2008), winning the prestigious tournament sponsored by the PAL Group in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).

With his personal chess opening book, which he called Sikanda,[9] Riccio also won the Welcome Freestyle Tournament (2008), the Christmas Freestyle Tournament (2008), the 1st IC Freestyle Masters (2009) and the 1st Freestyle Tournament (2012), organized by Infinity Chess.[10]

Infinity Chess has developed a special Elo classification for centaurs (man + computer),[11] which sees the first place right Eros Riccio (Sephiroth) with 2755 Elo points.

He stands out in various ICCF international tournaments with the Italian national team, of which becomes 1st board in the final of the "7th European Championship",[12] with the silver medal to Italy, in the final of the "17th Olympiad",[13] with the bronze medal to Italy, and in the final of the "18th Olympiad". With the Italian national team Riccio also wins the second silver medal in the final of the "8th European Championship"[14] and the bronze medal in the final of the "9th European Championship".[15]

In July 2009 Riccio (Auryn) beats Rechenschieber,[16] the cluster of the Rybka team, a monster composed of very impressive 55 high-speed computers that function as a single powerful computer, and beats also Highendman,[17] which was the only one before him to beat the Rybka cluster.

In 2013 wins the Umansky Memorial.[18]

In 2021 his Elo ICCF is 2640 points and is 1st in the Italian ranking and 4th in the world ranking.[19]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Eros Riccio". Chess Programming Wiki. Archived from the original on August 20, 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
  2. ↑ "FICGS World Champions". Free Internet Correspondence Games Server. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ "54° Italian Championship". ICCF. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  4. ↑ "57° Italian Championship". ICCF. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  5. ↑ "61° Italian Championship". ICCF. Retrieved October 12, 2012.
  6. ↑ FICGS Freestyle Cup
  7. ↑ "Computerbild Advanced Chess". forum.computerschach.de. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  8. ↑ "8° PAL/CSS/Freestyle". rybkaforum.net.
  9. ↑ "Sikanda". scacchi.blogcindario.com. Retrieved October 28, 2012.
  10. ↑ "The 1st Infinity Freestyle Chess 2012". infinitychess.com. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Infinity Chess: Freestyle Top 100". infinitychess.com. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  12. ↑ "7th European Championship". ICCF. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  13. ↑ "17th Olympiad". ICCF. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  14. ↑ "8th European Championship". ICCF. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  15. ↑ "9th European Championship". ICCF. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  16. ↑ "Advanced Chess: How to beat the cluster". bormix.blogspot.it. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
  17. ↑ "My first win vs the "Highe"". rybkaforum.net. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
  18. ↑ "Umansky Memorial". ICCF. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  19. ↑ "ICCF Ratings". ICCF. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
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