Country Brazil Role Chess Player | Name Rafael Leitao Title Grandmaster | |
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Born 28 December 1979 (age 44)
Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil ( 1979-12-28 ) | ||
Rafael leit o x yifan hou partida 1 chess world cup 2015 round 1
Rafael Duailibe Leitão (born 1979, in São Luís, Maranhão) is a Brazilian chess grandmaster.
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Chess career
He won the World Youth Chess Championship in the U12 category in 1991 and in the U18 category in 1996. He won the Brazilian Chess Championship in 1996, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2011 and 2013 and played for Brazil in the Chess Olympiads of 1996, 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2010.
His username on the Internet Chess Club is "Pigzilla". His last name (Leitão) means piglet in Portuguese.
Correspondence chess
He started playing correspondence chess via the International Correspondence Chess Federation in 2009, becoming an ICCF International Master in 2011 and an ICCF Grandmaster in 2012. By finishing second in the third Candidate Tournament, Leitao qualified for the 26th Correspondence World Championship, eventually finishing third with 9.5/16.
