| Fabio Finocchiaro | |
|---|---|
| Country |  Italy |
| Born | June 5, 1939 San Giovanni la Punta, Italy |
| Title | ICCF Grandmaster (1998) |
| ICCF World Champion | 2009–13 |
| ICCF rating | 2571 (October 2021) |
| ICCF peak rating | 2621 (January 2013) |
Fabio Finocchiaro (born June 6, 1939) is an Italian chess player who holds the ICCF title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster. [1]
He started to play chess at age 15 in his native Sicily. Since 1968 Finocchiaro actively participated in the correspondence chess tournaments. In 1977 and 1979 he twice won Italian correspondence chess championship. [2] In 2013 Finocchiaro won the 25th World Correspondence Chess Championship (2009–2013). [3]
Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played through a correspondence chess server, a public internet chess forum, or email. Less common methods that have been employed include fax, homing pigeon and phone. It is in contrast to over-the-board (OTB) chess, where the players sit at a chessboard at the same time, or play each other in real time via the internet.
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Rafael Duailibe Leitão is a Brazilian chess player. He is a grandmaster in both over-the-board chess and correspondence chess. Leitão is a seven-time Brazilian champion. He competed in the FIDE World Championship in 1999, 2000 and 2004 and in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2015.
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