GMJorge Viterbo Ferreira

Jorge Viterbo Ferreira was born in Porto in 1994 and began playing chess at school when he was eleven. He won the Porto district championship at fourteen and Portugal’s under-18 championship in 2011. He trained with Kevin Spraggett and became an international master in 2013. He received the grandmaster title in 2018. He finished runner-up in the Portuguese championship in 2014, 2015 and 2021, and represented Portugal at several Olympiads.

Ferreira initially studied physics at the University of Porto before changing to philosophy. He completed a master’s degree in logic at the University of Amsterdam. In 2018 he began doctoral studies in philosophy at New York University, working with David Chalmers.