Rafael Leitão

Rafael Leitão
Leitão in 2012
Personal information
BornRafael Duailibe Leitão
(1979-12-28) 28 December 1979
Chess career
CountryBrazil
Title
FIDE rating2588 (March 2026)
Peak rating2652 (June 2014)
Peak rankingNo. 100 (June 2014)
ICCF rating2592 (April 2012)

Rafael Duailibe Leitão (born 28 December 1979) is a Brazilian chess grandmaster. He is a grandmaster in both over-the-board chess and correspondence chess. Leitão is a seven-time Brazilian champion. He competed in the FIDE World Championship in 1999, 2000 and 2004 and in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2015.