Arturo Reggio was an Italian chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

He started playing chess as an engineering student at the Graz University of Technology

Graz University of Technology

The Graz University of Technology is the second largest university in Styria, Austria, after the University of Graz. Austria has three universities of technology – in Graz, in Leoben, and in Vienna. The Graz University of Technology was founded in 1811 by Archduke John of Austria. TUG, as the...

 and at the Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute

Vienna University of Technology

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 of Vienna

Vienna

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, both in Austria

Austria

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. After he settled in Milan in the 1890s, he joined the Societá Scacchistica Milanese and edited a chess column

Chess columns in newspapers

The earliest known chess column appeared in the Lancet in 1823, but due to lack of popularity disappeared after less than a year.-Historical development:...

 for the magazine La Bicicletta, since 1898.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Reggio was an unofficial Italian Chess Champion

Italian Chess Championship

The Italian Chess Federation , was established in 1920.The first Italian Chess Championship took place at Viareggio 1921.The 1998 Championship was held 21–29 November in Saint-Vincent....

. He won five times in the strongest national tournaments: at Rome 1900 (1st Torneo dell'USI), Venice 1901 (2nd Torneo dell'USI), Florence 1905 (3rd Torneo dell'USI), Bologna 1913 (2nd Torneo "L'Italia Scacchistica"), and Milan 1916 (1st Torneo Nazionale "Crespi").

He also took 3rd at Milan 1906 (4th Torneo dell'USI, Giovanni Martinolich

Giovanni Martinolich

Giovanni Martinolich was an Italian chess master.Born in Trieste , The son of Dr Giovanni Martinolich , a lawyer, Sec. of the Austrian Association of Maritime law and legal advisor to the British and US Consulates and of Anna Gerolimich of Lussinpiccolo a ship owner, he studied in Vienna...

 won), took 3rd at Rome 1911 (5th Torneo dell'USI, Matteo Gladig

Matteo Gladig

Matteo Gladig was an Italian chess master.Born in Triest , he won at Triest 1905 , took 2nd, behind Giovanni Martinolich, at Triest 1909 , and drew a short match with Oldřich Duras at Triest 1909...

 won), won at Bologna 1912 (torneo interregionale) and won at Milan 1912 (torneo cittadino).

Reggio played in several international tournaments where took 11th at Monte Carlo 1901 (Dawid Janowski

Dawid Janowski

Dawid Markelowicz Janowski was a leading Polish chess master and subsequent French citizen....

 won), took 19th at Monte Carlo 1902 (Géza Maróczy

Géza Maróczy

Géza Maróczy was a leading Hungarian chess Grandmaster, one of the best players in the world in his time. He was also a practicing engineer.-Early career:...

 won), took 13th at Monte Carlo 1903 (Siegbert Tarrasch

Siegbert Tarrasch

Siegbert Tarrasch was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th century and early 20th century....

 won), tied for 7-8th at Barmen 1905 (Masters B, Leo Fleischmann

Leó Forgács

Leó Forgács was a Hungarian chess player.-Biography:...

 won), took 8th at Scheveningen 1905 (Frank James Marshall won), took 9th at Ostend 1906 (elim., Carl Schlechter

Carl Schlechter

Carl Schlechter was a leading Austrian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker.-Early life:...

won).