Giovanni Vescovi

Giovanni Vescovi, Toluca 2011
Surname	Giovanni Portilho Vescovi
Association	Brazil
Born	June 14, 1978 Porto Alegre
title	International Master (1993) Grand Master (1998)
Current  Elo rating	2606 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2660 (January 2010)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Giovanni Portilho Vescovi (born June 14, 1978 in Porto Alegre ) is a Brazilian chess player .

He learned chess when he was three and took part in tournaments for the first time when he was eight as a member of Club Athlético Paulistano .

successes

Giovanni Vescovi, Linares 2008

In 1993 he received the title of International Master , in 1998 he became a Grand Master .

Vescovi won eleven Brazilian youth championships: U10 (1987, 1988), U12 (1989, 1990), U14 (1989, 1991), U16 (1990, 1994), U18 (1991, 1996), U20 (1992) - and five Pan-American Youth championships: U12 (1990), U16 (1993), U18 (1994), U20 (1993, 1998). He is a seven-time Brazilian individual champion (1999, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010). In 1987 he finished second at the U10 World Cup in San Juan . In 1993 he became Brazilian lightning team champion and youth team champion. In the same year he was third at the U16 World Cup in Bratislava . In 1994 in Matinhos he also took third place at the U20 World Cup . In 1995 he won an open in Zlín, Czech Republic . In 1998 he was team champion at the Youth World Cup in Rio de Janeiro and received a gold medal for his result of 91.7 percent. In 2001 he won the zone tournament in Sao Paulo . In 2003 he won a category 15 tournament in Bermuda , in 2004 he won again in Bermuda (this time the tournament was category 18). In the world chess championships he has never made it past the second round despite two appearances. He was Ibero-American champion in Linares in 2008 .

With his Elo rating of 2606, he would be in fourth place in the Brazilian Elo ranking in February 2015, which he led for a long time. However, he is listed as inactive because he did not play an Elo-rated game after the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul .

National team

Vescovi took part in the 1994 , 1998 , 2000 , 2002 , 2006 and 2012 Chess Olympiads with the Brazilian national team. In 1996 he was nominated as a reserve player, but was not used. He also played in the team's World Cup 2010 on top board of the Brazilian selection and was at three Pan-American Team Championships for the Brazilian team. With the team he won the Pan American Team Championship in 2009, after finishing third in 1995 and second in 2000.

Personal and professional

Vescovi lives in São Paulo and has two sons. In 2003 he founded the Equilibrium Empreendimentos Sócio-Culturais Ltda , which managed to bring chess players like Karpow and Anand to Brazil. In 2004 he translated for the Brazilian publisher Editora Solis Kasparow's multi-volume work Meine Große Vorkampf [ My Great Advocates] . He holds a degree in law from the private university Universidade Estadual Paulista in São Paulo and is a board member of the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP).

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Vescovi  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Giovanni Vescovi on chessgames.com (English)
• Portrait on chess.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Giovanni Vescovi's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Giovanni Vescovi's results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Giovanni Vescovi's results at the Pan-American Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)