User:Marco Bonavoglia
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Something about myself
My name is, of course!, Marco Bonavoglia; I'm Italian, 53, and have worked in the Italian Wikipedia for a while, but I was highly disappointed with the average quality of the articles. I hope CZ will prove that it is possible to have a free high quality encyclopedia. My background is physics at the university and software engineering afterwards, but I really don't think I'm going to write about that. My real area of expertise is chess and whatever is chess related. Today I'm much more a chess composer than a chess player; also I've been involved for a long time in chess variants and fairy chess.
As this is an English Encyclopaedia, I can also help in most Italian-related issues, especially about Milan and Lombardy where I live.
I think I will mostly check recent changes and make minor edits. My English is normally understandable, but it's not my mother tongue and I'm pretty certain that this is self-evident.
CV
I rewrite here the E-mail I posted to the Citizendium personnel
Application for editor or author in Citizendium
subject: chess, chess variants and chess problems
Marco Bonavoglia
born in Milano (Italy) May 14th 1953
- Candidate Master in Chess with Italian ELO 2030
- Secretary (ie chairman) of the Italian Chess Problem Association (API) from 1985 to 1994
- Italian delegate to FIDE Permanent Commission or Chess Composition (PCCC) from 1987 to 1996
- Italian Champion of Progressive Chess (Over the Board) in 1981
- Italian champion of Losing Progressive Chess (Correspondence) in 1980
- Italian quick chess problem solving champion in 2005
- Judges in some composing tournaments
- Column editor of chess problems and fairy chess in the magazines
- Zeitnot 1985
- Sinfonie Scacchistiche 1985-1994
- Eteroscacco 1980-1997
- Chess Magazine online (omissis this is still in progress, and would be an ad!)
References: (online)
- indirect reference to some of my editorial work in
- judging in composing tourneys
- results
- small biographical notes (not by myself)
Paper references
- La storia degli scacchi in Italia ISBN 88-317-5383-5 (page 573)
- Le guide des Echecs ISBN 2-221-05913-1 (page 1299)
- Nuova Antologia dei problemisti Italiani (1992)