{"id":2839,"date":"2011-12-17T08:41:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T07:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=2839"},"modified":"2012-01-06T08:33:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T07:33:46","slug":"portugal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=2839","title":{"rendered":"Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Name of Federation<\/strong>: APXC \u2013 Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Portuguesa de Xadrez por Correspond\u00eancia<\/p>\n

Year of Foundation<\/strong>: 1983 \u2013 CNXC;\u00a0Refoundation: 2010 \u2013 APXC<\/p>\n

ICCF Delegate<\/strong>: Jo\u00e3o Salvador Marques (jrodavlas@hotmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

E-Mail contact<\/strong>: Joaquim Pedro Soberano (soberano@apxc.pt<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Website<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.apxc.pt\/<\/a> ;\u00a0Blog: http:\/\/apxcpt.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Article provided by<\/strong>: \u00c1lvaro Pereira \/ Joaquim Pedro Soberano<\/p>\n

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The definitive History of Chess in Portugal remains to be written.<\/p>\n

However, we know that in our country chess as an organised sport started in the 1920s, not only over the board but also by correspondence.<\/p>\n

Thus it is not surprising that Portugal participated in CC Olympiad 1. What is rather strange is the fact that the internationally inexperienced members of the team reached the final, where they achieved fourth place. We notice even at this early stage a certain tendency for the Portuguese players to have more success in correspondence than in OTB play.<\/p>\n

Portugal also participated in Olympiad 2 (later renamed Olympiad 1<\/a>, while the previous one became known as the European Olympiad<\/a>), once again achieving fourth place in the final through team \u201cA\u201d, with players from Lisbon.<\/p>\n

After a few decades of not so brilliant performances, Portuguese CC over the past 30 years has recovered its international reputation, with some good results, either individually or as a team. During the 80s and the 90s, \u00c1lvaro Pereira and Lu\u00eds Santos did well in the World Championship 13 Final (Jo\u00e3o Cordovil qualified for the World Championship 14 Final, but was forced to withdraw due to illness), Ilda Miranda was 10th in the Ladies World Championship 5 Final and the national team finished 5th in Olympiad 9.<\/p>\n

More recently, Portugal won the last edition of Copa Latina and placed 4th in Olympiad 15 Final, 5th in European TC 7 Final and 3th in NATT 6.<\/p>\n

Hor\u00e1cio Neto took part in World Championship 23 Final, ending 8th, and seven Portuguese players are participating in Candidate Tournaments.<\/p>\n

On the women’s side, Portuguese CC has been unusually active, presenting a team in the last two Ladies Olympiads. And, for a while, Maria Gil was ranked 2th lady in the ICCF Elo list.<\/p>\n

Portugal has 5 Grandmasters \u2013 \u00c1lvaro Pereira, Lu\u00eds Santos, Joaquim Pedro Soberano, Hor\u00e1cio Neto and Ant\u00f3nio Silva \u2013, 12 Senior International Masters \u2013 Carlos Quaresma, Jo\u00e3o Peres, Jos\u00e9 Pereira dos Santos, Fernando Cleto, Ant\u00f3nio Dem\u00e9trio, J\u00falio Flores, Gustavo Morais, Ant\u00f3nio Moura, Francisco Pessoa, Luis Quaresma, Luis Sim\u00f5es Reis and Manuel Camejo de Almeida \u2013 and 8 International Masters \u2013 Jo\u00e3o Cordovil, Jo\u00e3o Leonardo, Eduardo Calhau, Vitor Cordeiro, Jos\u00e9 Am\u00e9rico Moreira, Albano Pinheiro, Joaquim Brand\u00e3o de Pinho and Jo\u00e3o Salvador Marques.<\/p>\n

Since mid-20th century until the present time, CC in Portugal went through several changes and adjustments. For many years it was part of the Portuguese Chess Federation, with no legal personality and no administrative or financial autonomy. However, in 2010, APXC emerged as an autonomous association, run by a five member Executive Board and with its own legal frame, registered publicly. The current members of the APXC Board are: Jo\u00e3o Salvador Marques (President), Ant\u00f3nio Moura (Treasurer), Pedro Soberano, Am\u00e9rico Moreira, Jo\u00e3o Ferreira (Tournaments Director) and Eduardo Calhau (ICCF applications).<\/p>\n

For some years CNXC published a CC chess magazine named Pe\u00e3o Distante. Today, the printed edition has been replaced by a digital bulletin available online to every CC enthusiasts.<\/p>\n

At the present time, Portugal has some 100 players registered in ICCF.<\/p>\n

See our website at www.apxc.pt and our blog at www.apxcpt.blogspot.com.<\/p>\n

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Playing for the \u201cB\u201d team \u2013 made up by players from Oporto \u2013 in the first world Olympiad, Alexandre Gon\u00e7alves inflicted on Cecil Purdy one of the only two CC defeats he suffered in his entire career.<\/p>\n

That game (see it on the 2002 ICCF Gold Book) was the first victory of a Portuguese player over a World Champion to be. In 2009, no less than three Portuguese GMs won to former World Champions.<\/p>\n

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GM \u00c1lvaro Pereira<\/p><\/div>\n

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GM Hor\u00e1cio Neto<\/p><\/div>\n

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GM Joaquim Pedro Soberano<\/p><\/div>\n

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Games<\/p>\n