Jorge Szmetan an Argentine 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.

At the beginning of his career, he won at Brasila 1969. He played many times in Argentine Chess Championship

Argentine Chess Championship

The first Argentine Chess Championship was held in 1921. The Champion's title was granted after victorious or drawn match between previous champion and challenger, a winner of Torneo Mayor...

, and was a Champion in 1976. He also tied for 4-7th in 1971, tied for 10-11th in 1972, shared 5th in 1973, took 2nd in 1974, took 6th in 1975, shared 5th in 2003, etc.
He took 7th at São Paulo 1972 (zonal, Henrique Mecking

Henrique Mecking

Henrique Mecking was a leading Brazilian chess Grandmaster in the 1970s. He was a very strong player at an early age , drawing comparisons to Bobby Fischer, although he did not achieve the International Grandmaster title until 1971...

 won), shared 5th at Fortaleza 1975 (zonal, Raúl Sanguineti won), tied for 5-6th at Buenos Aires Club Argentino 1975 (Samuel Schweber

Samuel Schweber

Samuel Schweber is an Argentine chess player.Schweber played in several Argentine chess championships. He was 7-8th in 1956 , 4-6th in 1960 , 2nd in 1963 , 3rd in 1965 , 5-8th in 1967 , 2nd in 1968 , 3rd-4th in 1969 , 3rd-4th in 1980 Samuel Schweber (born 16 July 1936) is an Argentine chess...

 won), took 16th at Corrientes 1985 (zonal, Miguel Quinteros

Miguel Quinteros

Miguel Quinteros is an Argentine chess grandmaster.He won the Argentine Chess Championship at the age of 18 and in 1969 took eighth place at the Mar del Plata Zonal tournament...

 and Ivan Morovic

Iván Morovic

Iván Eduardo Morović Fernández is a Chilean chess player and an International Grandmaster of Croatian origin. He often has been the best Latin American chess player....

 won). He was a winner of Third Konex Master Open Tournament

Konex chess tournament

The first Konex Master Chess Tournament organised by the Konex Foundation started off in Buenos Aires in 1977. The foundation sponsored Marcelo Tempone, World Chess Champion Junior, for further training and so as to participate in international tournaments , the Argentine Team to the Olympiads for...

 at Buenos Aires 1980.

Szmetan thrice represented Argentina in Chess Olympiads at Nice 1974, Haifa 1976, and Buenos Aires 1978.

He was awarded the International Master title in 1976.