# Jaime Sunye Neto > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jaime_Sunye_Neto > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jaime_Sunye_Neto.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Sunye_Neto > Source revision: 1311814128 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Brazilian chess grandmaster (born 1957)}} {{Portuguese name|Sunye|Neto}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2019}} {{Infobox chess player |image = Jaime Sunyé Neto 1984 Thessaloniki.jpg |name = Jaime Sunye Neto |caption = At the [Thessaloniki 1984 Olympiad](/source/26th_Chess_Olympiad) |birthname = |country = [Brazil](/source/Brazil) |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|5|2}} |birth_place = [Curitiba](/source/Curitiba), Brazil |death_date = |death_place = |title = [Grandmaster](/source/Grandmaster_(chess)) (1986) |peakranking = No. 78 (July 1986) |peakrating = 2558 (July 2000) |FideID = 2100037 }} '''Jaime Sunye Neto''' (born May 2, 1957) is a Brazilian [chess](/source/chess) player. Awarded the [International Master](/source/International_master) title in 1980 and the [Grandmaster](/source/Grandmaster_(chess)) title in 1986, he was [Brazilian champion](/source/Brazilian_Chess_Championship) seven times, in 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983 (jointly with Marcos Paolozzi). Sunye Neto was also president of the [Brazilian Chess Confederation](/source/Brazilian_Chess_Confederation) from 1988 to 1992. [[File:Jaime Sunye Neto 1980 Malta.JPG|thumb|left|upright|Jaim Sunye Neto, 1980 at the [24th Chess Olympiad](/source/24th_Chess_Olympiad)]] In 1979 he was invited to play in [the Interzonal](/source/World_Chess_Championship_1981) in [Rio de Janeiro](/source/Rio_de_Janeiro) as a second representative of the host nation. Untitled at the time, he delivered one of the best performances of his career, finishing =fifth overall (tied with [Borislav Ivkov](/source/Borislav_Ivkov)) and defeating several grandmasters, including the tournament winner [Lajos Portisch](/source/Lajos_Portisch). In 1989 he won the [South American Chess Championship](/source/South_American_Chess_Championship), which was also the South American Zonal, and qualified for the [1990 Interzonal](/source/World_Chess_Championship_1993), where he finished equal 29th–39th out of 64 players. Other best results were joint second place at [Havana](/source/Havana) 1985, and first at [Zenica](/source/Zenica) 1986. From 1978 to 1986 he was a mainstay on the Brazilian team at the [Chess Olympiad](/source/Chess_Olympiad). ==Campaign for FIDE presidency== In 1996, Sunye Neto ran for president of FIDE. He assembled a powerful team and won the support of almost all of the chess playing countries of Europe. However he lost to incumbent [Kirsan Ilyumzhinov](/source/Kirsan_Ilyumzhinov) by 87 votes to 44. The German delegate suggested gifts were used by Ilyumzhinov to influence the vote.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083406/http://www.uschess.org/news/archives/fide/yerva-09.html Report by Egon Ditt on the meeting in Yerevan], [United States Chess Federation](/source/United_States_Chess_Federation) ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *{{chessgames player|id=15457}} *[http://www.uschess.org/news/archives/fide/yerva-06.html#Main Report by Carol Jarecki on the meeting in Yerevan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926222212/http://www.uschess.org/news/archives/fide/yerva-06.html#Main |date=2007-09-26 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sunye Neto, Jaime}} Category:1957 births Category:Sportspeople from Curitiba Category:Living people Category:Chess Grandmasters Category:Brazilian chess players Category:Chess Olympiad competitors {{Brazil-chess-bio-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jaime Sunye Neto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Sunye_Neto) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Sunye_Neto?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.