Daniel Cámpora

Daniel Hugo Cámpora Sivori (born 30 June 1957, San Nicolás de los Arroyos ) is an Argentine chess player.

In 1975, Daniel was Cámpora Argentine youth champion. Twice he won the Argentine Individual Championship (1986 and 1989). International tournaments he won, among others, in 1983 in Tuzla, 1996 in Benasque ( shared with Oleg Korneev ), 2003 in Almendralejo and 2006 in Seville. In the 1990s and 2000s, he played in the Argentine, Swiss ( Biel ), Spanish ( for CA Tiendas UPI) and Portuguese ( for DG Diana Évora ) 1st League.

Cámpora took 1978-2008 for Argentina in nine chess Olympiads, where in 1994 he was awarded a gold medal for his rating of 7.5 out of 9 on the first board and a silver medal for his performance rating of 2776 Elo points in Moscow.

Although Cámpora counted never the best in the world (his best world ranking was noisy historical Elo calculation 41 in April 1987), but he has managed during his career, beating many world class players: He wins boast against Lubomir Ftáčnik, Bent Larsen, Milan Matulović, Andras Adorjan, Lajos Portisch, Dragoljub Velimirović, Boris Gulko, László Szabó, Murray Chandler, Efim Geller, Ye Jiangchuan, Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga, Vesselin Topalov, Alexander Morozevich, Andrei Charlow, William Lombardy Jan Timman, Emil Sutovsky, Ilia Smirin, Vadim Milov, Nigel Short, Alexei Shirov, Jaan Ehlvest and Sergei Karjakin.

1982 Cámpora became International Master, he is since 1986 grandmasters. Cámpora lives in Seville, Spain.