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Fernando Visier Segovia

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Fernando Visier Segovia (born 3 February 1943, Madrid) is a Spanish chess player with the rank of FIDE Master. He won the Spanish Chess Championship twice.

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Biography

He studied at CEIP San Ildefonso, a school founded in Madrid in 1543. While there, he was one of the choirboys who sang the results of the 1957 Spanish Christmas Lottery.[2]

He won the Spanish Chess Championship in 1968 and 1972.[3] He represented Spain three times at Chess Olympiads: 1968 in Lugano, 1972 in Skopje, and 1974 in Nice.[4] He represented Spain at the 1970 European Men's Team Chess Championship.[5] He played for Spain at the Clare Benedict Chess Cup in 1967 (Leysin, Switzerland), 1968 (Bad Aibling, Germany), 1969 (Adelboden, Switzerland), 1970 (Paignton, England), 1972 (Vienna, Austria) and 1973 (Gstaad, Switzerland).[6] In 2004, he was awarded a silver medal for services to sport in Castilla-La Mancha.[7]

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Notable games and results

These include:[3]

  • 1968  defeated Juan Betancort Curbelo in 31 moves
  • 1968  5.5/17 at the tournament in Palma de Mallorca
  • 1977  defeated Mikhail Tal in 39 moves[8]

References

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