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unusual facts about Oscar Panno


Oscar Panno

(He crushed the future World Champion Spassky in their individual game.) This result was probably the peak of his career, as it advanced him to the 1956 Candidates tournament in Amsterdam, the winner of which would play a 24 game match for the World Championship with Mikhail Botvinnik.


Lone Pine International

Evans (USA) placed second at 7–3, and there was a six-way tie at 6½–3½ for positions three through eight between Walter Browne (USA), Florin Gheorghiu (Romania), Weinstein, Oscar Panno (Argentina), Miguel Quinteros (Argentina), and Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia).


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