Hannes Stefánsson
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Full name | Hannes Hlífar Stefánsson |
Country | Iceland |
Born | Reykjavík, Iceland | 18 July 1972
Title | Grandmaster (1993) |
FIDE rating | 2493 (April 2024) |
Peak rating | 2604 (January 2002) |
Peak ranking | No. 83 (January 2002) |
Hannes Hlífar Stefánsson (born 18 July 1972) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster. He has won the Icelandic Chess Championship a record thirteen times.
Chess career
Born in 1972, Hannes won the
Yuriy Kryvoruchko and Mihail Marin in the Reykjavik Open tournament 2009.[2] He won the International chess tournament Open Teplice 2015 in the Czech Republic.[3] He is the No. 1 ranked Icelandic player as of September 2023.[update][4]
References
- ^ "Ilya Smirin wins Acropolis 2007". ChessBase News. 26 August 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-10.
- ^ "Reykjavik Open 2009 – chess in geothermal splendor". ChessBase. 2009-04-13. Retrieved 14 May 2010.
- ^ "Winner GM Hannes Stefansson". International chess tournament Open Teplice. Archived from the original on 2015-07-03.
- ^ "Federations Ranking – Iceland". FIDE. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
External links
- Hannes Stefansson player profile and games at Chessgames.com