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 (1979-1980), the Argentine Team to the Olympiads for players under 26, held at Mexico City 1980, the Argentine Chess Team, to the First World Chess Championship for Teams, held in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1985, Hugo Hernán Spangenberg (13 years old) in the Infant World Chess Championship, at Puerto Rico 1989, and the participation of the Argentine and South American (Female) Champion Claudia Amura in the Inter-Zone Chess Tournament in Moscow, Russia, in 1990.[1]
| # | Year | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1977 | Raúl Sanguineti (Argentina) |
| 2 | 1979 | Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) Ljubomir Ljubojević (Yugoslavia) |
| 3 | 1980 | Jorge Szmetan (Argentina) |
| 4 | 1985 | Miguel Quinteros (Argentina) Iván Morovic (Chile) |
| 5 | 1987 | Mikhail Tal (Soviet Union) |
| 6 | 1988 | Gilberto Milos (Brazil) Zenon Franco (Paraguay) |
| 7 | 1991 | Pablo Ricardi (Argentina) |
| 8 | 1994 | Pablo Zarnicki (Argentina) |