Fernando Visier Segovia
CountrySpain
Born (1943-02-03) 3 February 1943
Madrid, Spain
Peak rating2375 (January 1975)[1]

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.

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]

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

  1. ↑ Fernando Visier Segovia rating card at FIDE
  2. ↑ "Bilbao, que jugaba sesenta millones de pesetas, ha recibido mas de doscientos cinquenta de premios" (in Spanish). 22 December 1957. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Fernando Visier Segovia". chessgames.com. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "Visier Segovia, Fernando". olimpbase.org. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "Visier Segovia, Fernando". olimpbase.org. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "Visier Segovia, Fernando". olimpbase.org. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "Araceli Muñoz da a conocer la relación de galardones de la VII edición de los Premios al Mérito Deportivo de Castilla-La Mancha" (in Spanish). 26 April 2004. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  8. ↑ "Fernando Visier Segovia vs Mikhail Tal (1966)". www.chessgames.com. Retrieved 29 October 2019.


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