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Felipe El Debs

Brazilian chess player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ456442 ↗
Source-derived summary

Felipe de Cresce El Debs (born 29 January 1985) is a Brazilian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2017. El Debs played for the Brazilian team in the Chess Olympiad and Pan American Team Chess Championship. In this latter event, in 2013, his team finished third. In 2004 he won the Brazilian under-20 championship with a score of 100%.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Felipe El Debs” as brazilian chess player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2017, 2013, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-01-29. The account is most persuasive where Felipe, Debs and Brazilian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as brazilian chess player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q456442. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985, 2017, 2013 and 2004.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Felipe El Debs” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.