{{short description|Italian chess player}} {{use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} '''Vincenzo Castaldi''' (15 May 1916, Marradi – 6 January 1970, Florence) was an Italian chess master.
He won the Italian Chess Championship seven times, (1936, 1937, 1947 (jointly), 1948, 1952 (jointly), 1953, and 1959),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/Italia/campionati.htm |title=I campionati italiani<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2009-02-09 |archive-date=2012-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728092801/http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/Italia/campionati.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was an Italian correspondence chess champion in 1956.
Castaldi represented Italy on first board in the 7th Chess Olympiad at Stockholm 1937 and 9th Chess Olympiad at Dubrovnik 1950.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/x5hp5xvi.html|title=Men's Chess Olympiads: Vincenzo Castaldi|publisher=OlimpBase|access-date=1 May 2011}}</ref>
He was awarded the International Master title in 1950.
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