Fernando Visier Segovia

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Visier and the second or maternal family name is Segovia.

Fernando Visier Segovia
Country	Spain
Born	(1943-02-03) 3 February 1943 (age 81) Madrid, Spain
Title	FIDE Master
Peak rating	2375 (January 1975)[1]

Fernando Visier Segovia (born 3 February 1943, Madrid) is a Spanish chess player with the rank of FIDE Master. He won the Spanish Chess Championship twice.

Biography

He studied at CEIP San Ildefonso, a school founded in Madrid in 1543. While there, he was one of the choirboys who sang the results of the 1957 Spanish Christmas Lottery.[2]

He won the Spanish Chess Championship in 1968 and 1972.[3] He represented Spain three times at Chess Olympiads: 1968 in Lugano, 1972 in Skopje, and 1974 in Nice.[4] He represented Spain at the 1970 European Men's Team Chess Championship.[5] He played for Spain at the Clare Benedict Chess Cup in 1967 (Leysin, Switzerland), 1968 (Bad Aibling, Germany), 1969 (Adelboden, Switzerland), 1970 (Paignton, England), 1972 (Vienna, Austria) and 1973 (Gstaad, Switzerland).[6] In 2004, he was awarded a silver medal for services to sport in Castilla-La Mancha.[7]

Notable games and results

These include:[3]

• 1968 – defeated Juan Betancort Curbelo in 31 moves
• 1968 – 5.5/17 at the tournament in Palma de Mallorca
• 1977 – defeated Mikhail Tal in 39 moves[8]

References

1. Fernando Visier Segovia rating card at FIDE
2. "Bilbao, que jugaba sesenta millones de pesetas, ha recibido mas de doscientos cinquenta de premios" (in Spanish). 22 December 1957. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
3. "Fernando Visier Segovia". chessgames.com. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
4. "Visier Segovia, Fernando". olimpbase.org. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
5. "Visier Segovia, Fernando". olimpbase.org. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
6. "Visier Segovia, Fernando". olimpbase.org. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
7. "Araceli Muñoz da a conocer la relación de galardones de la VII edición de los Premios al Mérito Deportivo de Castilla-La Mancha" (in Spanish). 26 April 2004. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
8. "Fernando Visier Segovia vs Mikhail Tal (1966)". www.chessgames.com. Retrieved 29 October 2019.

External links

• Fernando Visier Segovia rating card at FIDE
• "Fernando Visier Segovia". 365chess.com. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
• "Visier Segovia, Fernando". chessmetrics.com. Retrieved 12 August 2018.