Joaquim Durão

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Joaquim Durão, Figueira da Foz 2009
Surname Joaquim Manuel Leal Durão
Association PortugalPortugal Portugal
Born October 25, 1930
Lisbon , Portugal
Died May 21, 2015
title International champion (1975)
Best Elo rating 2360 (May 1974)

Joaquim Manuel Leal Durão (born October 25, 1930 in Lisbon ; † May 21, 2015 ) was a Portuguese chess master and official.

Life

Durão learned to play chess at the age of 11; he played his first serious tournament game in 1947. Later he won the national championship of Portugal 13 times: 1955, 1956, 1958 to 1962, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972 and 1973. This makes him the Portuguese record holder. He was a player for Sporting Lisbon and Benfica Lisbon .

He took part in several zone tournaments: in 1957 in Dublin he came in 14th place, in 1960 in Madrid on place 15, in 1962 in Torremolinos on place 10, in 1963 in Enschede on place 13, in 1966 in The Hague on place 15, 1969 in Praia da Rocha in 14th place and in 1975 in Caorle even in 1st place. He also played in numerous international tournaments and traveled to over 80 countries. In Germany he won a tournament in Detmold in April 1966 with 5.5 points from 7 games.

Between 1958 and 1982 he took part in ten Chess Olympiads , four times (1958, 1960 , 1966 and 1974 ) he played on the top board. In total, he scored 78 points from 151 games. One of his best performances was a win against the Czech grandmaster Jan Smejkal at the 1972 Chess Olympiad in Skopje . As the only Portuguese chess player, he sat opposite the American grandmaster Bobby Fischer at the 1966 Chess Olympiad in Havana .

In 1975 he was the first player in his country to be awarded the title of International Master . Since 1985 he has also been an international referee . Durão did not play an Elo-rated game after the tie-off of the Portuguese Senior Championship 2012 in Lisbon in January 2013 and was therefore listed as inactive at FIDE.

At the Senior World Championships in 1991 in Bad Wörishofen he came in 9th place, in 1994 in Biel on place 15, in 1999 in Gladenbach on place 60.

He was president of the Portuguese chess federation Federação Portuguesa de Xadrez several times : 1968 to 1973, 1988 to 1997 and 2005 to 2007. From 1996 to 2001 he was also vice-president of the general assembly ( Assembleia Geral ) of the sports umbrella organization Confederação do Desporto de Portugal . He also worked for the Confédération Sportive Internationale du Travail .

From 1982 to 1996 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the World Chess Federation FIDE , the last two years as its vice-president. In the FIDE presidential election 2006 he supported Bessel Kok against incumbent Kirsan Nikolajewitsch Ilyumschinow .

For his services to the game of chess, he was awarded the Ordem do Mérito Comendador by President Jorge Sampaio .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historial dos vencedores dos campeonatos nacionais individuais ( Memento of December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Centenário do Sporting: Xadrez, apogeu e declínio ( Memento of July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Hans-Dieter Müller: The Detmold tournaments 1964–1967 . Fruth, Unterhaching 2000. pp. 23-30.
  4. ↑ Joaquim Durão's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Durão - Smejkal, Skopje 1972 (Java applet)
  6. ^ Fischer - Durão, Havanna 1966 (Java applet)
  7. ↑ Sportive Internationale du Travail ( Memento of April 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ In Memoriam - Joaquim Durão , on chessdom.com, May 21, 2015 (English)
  9. ↑ Press release of the Federación Paraguaya de Ajedrez of May 4, 2006 ( Memento of August 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Durão, Joaquim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Durão, Joaquim Manuel Leal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese chess master
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 2015