Henrique Mecking

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Henrique Mecking

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Henrique Mecking was born on January 23, 1952 and is 72 years old now.

Birthday: January 23, 1952
How Old - Age: 72

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Henrique Mecking - Biography

Henrique Costa Mecking (born 23 January 1952), also known as Mequinho, is a Brazilian chess grandmaster who reached his zenith in the 1970s and is still one of the strongest players in Brazil. He was a chess prodigy, drawing comparisons to Bobby Fischer, although he did not achieve the International Grandmaster title until 1972. He won the Interzonals of Petropolis 1973 and Manila 1976. His highest FIDE rating was 2635, achieved in 1977, when he was ranked No. 3 in the world. He was the first Brazilian to become a grandmaster. Despite winning his first national championship at the age of 13, he played in very few tournaments. He won at Vršac in 1971 and finished third with Robert Byrne (after the co-winners Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi) at Hastings in 1971–72. In 1975, he twice shared second place behind Ljubomir Ljubojević, firstly at Las Palmas with Ulf Andersson and Mikhail Tal and then at Manila with Lev Polugaevsky, Bent Larsen and Helmut Pfleger. Mecking played for Brazil in the Chess Olympiads of 1968, 1974, 2002 and 2004.

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