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Corvalao is not with us anymore..some one knows the reason?
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Corvalao is a ghost, Mr Gambitman. There is no information on his profile, never said a word in the foruns, and probably never sent anybody a message (Not sure because I never played him). I don´t even believe he is a Brazilian. If he is, he might be master level.
But just out of curiosity, did you see what happened last year, in one of those online tourneys promoted by Chessbase? They had a very strong player with a weird nick who was winning everything. They located the guy through that world map they have. He was in Brazil, playing from a small town in the southeast. The guy, they found out, happened to be Henrique Mecking, our best player of all times (third in the seventies, bellow Karpov and Kortchnoi), who has returned to play after a decade in bed (he was almost vegetative) suffering of a serious and rare illness. That was amazing and they wrote a good article about it! "The Mistery Player" in the middle of the page bellow:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsprint.asp?newsid=1626
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrique_Mecking
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Yeas, Robelix, I heard something about that Mecking was playing chess again. I followed his games in Fischer time around 1970 when I was young to. Me and my father study chess much that time and we expected more from Mecking but then he was suddenly out of chess because ot this illnes you mentiod.
Thanks I am goin to look at this at chessbase.
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I was able to play 6 games with him at chessmaniac.com. Initially he registered as Mecking then changed it to Mr.M when many players learned about it and wanted to play with him or heckle him (those who doubted that he was the real Mecking.
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I may say I come from the Fischer-Spasky match generation, when we could hardly wait for the local magazine bringing the games. But many kids, like me, wanted to play because we had a Brazilian playing at top level. He was our Fischer in many ways.
But speaking of waiting, sometimes weeks, for a game, I´m happy I survived to a century where we can watch a game, live, at real time, like Kasparov´s last one, for example. "Times they a'changing"! Dylan.
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Robelix.
Corvalão existe e é de Floripa!
Eu o conheço.
Eu já joguei e conversei com ele aqui no site. 
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