Fernando Visier Segovia Explained

Fernando Visier Segovia
Country:Spain
Birth Date:3 February 1943
Birth Place:Madrid, Spain
FIDE Master
Peakrating:2375 (January 1975)
Fideid:2200686

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.[1]

He won the Spanish Chess Championship in 1968 and 1972.[2] He represented Spain three times at Chess Olympiads: 1968 in Lugano, 1972 in Skopje, and 1974 in Nice.[3] He represented Spain at the 1970 European Men's Team Chess Championship.[4] 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).[5] In 2004, he was awarded a silver medal for services to sport in Castilla-La Mancha.[6]

Notable games and results

These include:

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Bilbao, que jugaba sesenta millones de pesetas, ha recibido mas de doscientos cinquenta de premios . Spanish . 22 December 1957 . 12 August 2018.
  2. Web site: Fernando Visier Segovia . chessgames.com . 12 August 2018.
  3. Web site: Visier Segovia, Fernando . olimpbase.org . 12 August 2018.
  4. Web site: Visier Segovia, Fernando . olimpbase.org . 12 August 2018.
  5. Web site: Visier Segovia, Fernando . olimpbase.org . 12 August 2018.
  6. Web site: Araceli Muñoz da a conocer la relación de galardones de la VII edición de los Premios al Mérito Deportivo de Castilla-La Mancha . Spanish . 26 April 2004 . 12 August 2018.
  7. Web site: Fernando Visier Segovia vs Mikhail Tal (1966). www.chessgames.com. 2019-10-29.