Rafael Leitão

Chess Player

1979 –

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Who is Rafael Leitão?

Rafael Duailibe Leitão is a Brazilian chess grandmaster. 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.

He is currently playing in the 26th World Correspondence Chess Championship, which began in the summer of 2010. International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.

His username on the Internet Chess Club is "Pigzilla".

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Born
Dec 28, 1979
São Luís
Nationality
  • Brazil

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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