Giovanni Cenni 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 won twice Bologna City championships (1911, 1912),
took 4th at Rome 1911 (unofficial Italian Chess Championship

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....

, V Torneo dell'Unione Scacchistica Italiana, 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), tied for 2nd-3rd at Viareggio 1912 (I Torneo "L'Italia Scacchistica", Alberto Batori won), took 3rd at Bologna 1913 (II Torneo "L'Italia Scacchistica", Arturo Reggio

Arturo Reggio

Arturo Reggio was an Italian chess master.He started playing chess as an engineering student at the Graz University of Technology and at the Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute of Vienna, both in Austria...

 won), took 2nd, behind A. Reggio, at Milan 1916 (I Torneo Nazionale "Crespi"), took 2nd, behind Stefano Rosselli del Turco

Stefano Rosselli del Turco

Stefano Rosselli Del Turco, marquis, was an Italian chess master.He played in all first ten Italian championships, and was twice Italian Champion...

, at Milan 1922 (III Torneo Nazionale "Crespi"), and tied for 7-8th at Bologna 1925 (Mario Monticelli

Mario Monticelli

Mario Monticelli was an Italian chess grandmaster.In 1922, he won in Rome . In 1925, he won in Bologna. In 1926, Monticelli tied for 1st with Ernst Grünfeld in Budapest. In 1929, he took 11th in Budapest . In 1929, he tied for 4-5th in Barcelona...

 won).

He participated in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad

1st unofficial Chess Olympiad

The first Team Chess Tournament had been held by coinciding the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12th - 20 July 1924, at Hotel Majestic. The core of the organizing committee were the Frenchmen Pierre Vincent and Alexander Alekhine. Fifty-four players representing 18 countries arrived to Paris...

at Paris 1924, and shared 8th in the Consolation Cup.