Darcy Lima

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Darcy Lima
Full nameDarcy Gustavo Machado Vieira Lima
Country Brazil
Born (1962-05-22) 22 May 1962 (age 60)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Title Grandmaster (1997)
FIDE   rating 2420 (September 2022)
Peak rating 2550 (April 2001) [1]

Darcy Gustavo Machado Vieira Lima (born 22 May 1962) is a Brazilian chess player. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1989 and the Grandmaster title in 1997. Also a chess official, Lima was granted the titles of FIDE Trainer in 2010 and FIDE International Organizer in 2013. He was the president of the Brazilian Chess Confederation from 1999 - 2004 and then from 2013 - 2020. [2] [3] [4]

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Chess career

In 1980 Lima won the Brazilian junior championship in Fortaleza. [5] He won the Brazilian Chess Championship three times (1992, 2002, 2003).

Lima won the South American zonal tournament at São Paulo twice, in 2000 and 2003. Thanks to these victories, he qualified to play in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000 and the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, respectively. Lima also competed in the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk in 2005, [6] 2007 and 2011. Also in 2007, he tied for 1st-5th places in the American Continental Championship at Cali, Colombia. [7]

Lima represented Brazil eleven times in the Chess Olympiad (1988–2008). [8] [9]

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