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{{short description|Brazilian chess grandmaster (born 1957)}}
{{BLP sources|date=February 2019}}
{{Portuguese name|Sunye|Neto}}
{{Infobox chess player
|image = Jaime Sunyé Neto 1984 Thessaloniki.jpg
|name = Jaime Sunye Neto
|caption = At the [[26th Chess Olympiad|Thessaloniki 1984 Olympiad]]
|birthname =
|country = [[Brazil]]
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|5|2}}
|birth_place = [[Curitiba]], Brazil
|death_date = 
|death_place = 
|title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (1986)
|peakranking = No. 78 (July 1986)
|peakrating = 2558 (July 2000)
|FideID = 2100037
}}
'''Jaime Sunye Neto''' (born May 2, 1957) is a Brazilian [[chess]] player. Awarded the [[International master|International Master]] title in 1980 and the [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] title in 1986, he was [[Brazilian Chess Championship|Brazilian champion]] 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]] from 1988 to 1992.

[[File:Jaime Sunye Neto 1980 Malta.JPG|thumb|left|upright|Jaim Sunye Neto, 1980 at the [[24th Chess Olympiad]]]]

In 1979 he was invited to play in [[World Chess Championship 1981#1979 Interzonal tournaments|the Interzonal]] in [[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]]) and defeating several grandmasters, including the tournament winner [[Lajos Portisch]]. In 1989 he won the [[South American Chess Championship]], which was also the South American Zonal, and qualified for the [[World Chess Championship 1993#1990 Interzonal Tournament|1990 Interzonal]], where he finished equal 29th–39th out of 64 players.

Other best results were joint second place at [[Havana]] 1985 , and first at [[Zenica]] 1986. From 1978 to 1986 he was a mainstay on the Brazilian team at the [[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]] by 87 votes to 44. The German delegate suggested gifts were used by Ilyumzhinov to influence the vote.<ref>[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]]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[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 }}

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[[Category:1957 births]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Curitiba]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Chess Grandmasters]]
[[Category:Brazilian chess players]]
[[Category:Chess Olympiad competitors]]


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