Jorge Viterbo Ferreira

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Jorge Viterbo Ferreira (born June 24, 1994 in Porto ) is a Portuguese chess player .

Life

Jorge Viterbo Ferreira studies philosophy at the Faculty of Literature at the University of Porto .

successes

At the Portuguese Individual Championship, he finished second behind António Fernandes in both 2014 and 2015 .

For Portugal, he played on the top board at the 2010 U16 Olympics in Burdur . He had a positive result both at the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul on the fourth board and at the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø on the second board.

He plays club chess in Portugal for the Grupo Desportivo Dias Ferreira from Matosinhos , with which he also participated in the European Club Cup 2015 in Skopje . He also plays regularly in Spanish regional leagues, in Belgium he has been playing for L'Echiquier Amaytois since 2017 .

Since October 2013 he has held the title of International Master . He achieved the standards for this at the IV Ibero-American Open in Quito in April 2012, in the Portuguese team championship in July 2012 in Matosinhos, which remained unbeaten, and at the Cerrado tournament in Gijón in August 2013. Since October 2018, Ferreira has held the title of one Grand Master . He fulfilled the required standards for this in the 2014/15 and 2017/18 seasons of the Portuguese team championship and in March 2018 at the European individual championship in Batumi .

His Elo rating is 2521 (as of February 2020). With his highest Elo rating of 2539 in August 2018, he led the Portuguese Elo ranking.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview of January 12, 2015 by Vânia Dias on the University of Porto website (Portuguese)
  2. ↑ List of Portuguese masters on the website of the Portuguese Chess Federation (Portuguese)
  3. ↑ The Chess Olympiads Jorge Viterbo Ferreiras on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ IM application (English)
  5. ↑ FIDE Title Applications 89th FIDE Congress 2018, 26 Sep - 6 Oct, Batumi, Georgia Grandmaster (GM) Ferreira, Jorge Viterbo. In: FIDE. Retrieved October 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ferreira, Jorge Viterbo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferreira, Jorge (Portuguese Chess Federation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese chess player
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH postage