Zoilo Caputto

Zoilo Rudecindo Caputto (Argentina, 14.11.1923 - 15.12.2021)  was a chess composer and writer of chess books

Profession:

Prof. Zoilo Rudecindo Caputto (Banfield, 23 November 1923 - city of Buenos Aires 15 December 2021) graduated as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Works:

He published several books on chess tournaments and collaborated with Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf in "15 Aspirants to the World Championship", Candidates Tournament (Switzerland 1953), a two-volume work published in 1954.

He published chess articles in national and foreign magazines and was also a columnist for the magazines "Ajedrez de Estilo" (Argentina) and "Scacco" (Italy).

He was the author of the treatise "El Arte del Estudio de Ajedrez" (The Art of the Chess Study) which deals with the subject of composition starting from its historical evolution, and then exposes an extraordinary number of chess studies classified by authors and the countries they represent. It is also highly remarkable the valuable and detailed complementary information that makes his work a fundamental element for researchers and lovers of the artistic expression manifested in chess studies. The entire work is published, i.e. volumes I to V.

He was an outstanding analyst of the aforementioned chess studies and has also been a member of juries in international competitions.

As a chess composer, he had produced, individually or in collaboration with other Argentinean composers, several chess studies. Some of them were presented in international competitions, obtaining notable distinctions.

At the age of 94, he published Ajedrez para todos, Dunken, 2017, 320 pages, aimed at teaching young people the beauties of artistic chess. In 2014 he had written Ajedrez con Jaque, a work of similar content.

Source: UNION ARGENTINA DE PROBLEMISTAS DE AJEDREZ

              Website ARVES shows 8 chess studies by Caputto. Selection by Mario G. García