Everaldo Matsuura

Everaldo Matsuura (born 1 October 1970) is a Brazilian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2011.

Matsuura in São Paulo in 2008

Born in Maringá,[1] Matsuura won the Brazilian Chess Championship in 1991 and 2016.[2] He won the Pan American Club Championship in 1993 playing for team C. X. Joinville.[3] By finishing 6th in the American Continental Championship in 2007, Matsuura qualified to the FIDE World Cup[1] held later in the same year. He was eliminated from this latter competition in the first round after losing to Sergey Karjakin by 0–2.[4] In 2018 Matsuura won the CXC Brazil Open in Curitiba.[5] Matsuura played on the Brazilian national team at the Chess Olympiad, the Panamerican Team Chess Championship, the World Youth U26 Team Chess Championship and the South American Team Chess Championship.[6]

References
  1. "Giovanni Vescovi wins the Brazil Chess Championship". Chessdom. 2010-12-08. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
  2. Silver, Albert (2017-03-04). "Matsuura wins second Brazilian Championship after 26 years". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
  3. Adaucto Wanderley da Nóbrega. "Caiobá 1993 - 2° Campeonato Panamericano Interclubes". BrasilBase.
  4. "The Week in Chess 681". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
  5. "Everaldo Matsuura is the winner in CXC Brazil Open". Chessdom. 2018-02-27. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  6. Everaldo Matsuura team chess record at Olimpbase.org
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