Monticelli Mario (16.03.1902 – 30.06.1995)

Italian International Grandmaster (honoris causa in 1985) and journalist. Italian Champion in 1929, 1934 and 1939. He became a national Master in 1924.

Best results: Budapest 1926, 1^st-2^nd; Barcelona 1929, 4^th-5^th; Milan 1938, 1^st-2^nd; Venice 1947, 4^th.

A participant in the Olympiads in 1927, 1928, 1931, 1933 and 1935.

Monticelli was a foreign correspondent for “Corriere della Sera” and wrote a chess column in the same journal at least until the late ’70s. Also author of a booklet on the Spassky-Fischer match.