Helgi Dam Ziska

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Helgi Dam Ziska
Helgi Dam Ziska, 2009
CountryFaroe Islands
Born (1990-07-27) 27 July 1990 (age 33)
Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
TitleGrandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating2551 (March 2024)
Peak rating2555 (December 2016)

Helgi Dam Ziska (born 27 July 1990 in Tórshavn[1]) is a Faroese chess player. He completed the requirements for the title Grandmaster (GM) at the 42nd Chess Olympiad on 12 September 2016.[2] He is the first Faroese player to qualify for the Grandmaster title. Ziska is the top ranked and the highest ever rated player from his country,[3][4] and has been rated number one amongst Faroese chess players since the age of 16.[5] He has competed at the Chess Olympiad since 2006, representing the Faroe Islands.[6]

Helgi Dam Ziska was awarded the title

Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament in June 2006.[7]

In 2006 he competed at the

blitz event (Tournament D) with a score of 9.5/11 points.[9]

Ziska has won the Faroese championship several times.[10][11][12] Ziska won the Nordic Junior Chess Championship in 2006 for boys born in 1989 and 1990.[13] In 2007 he took bronze and in 2008 he took silver together with Høgni Egilstoft Nielsen at the Nordic Junior Chess Championship.[14] In 2009 he became Nordic Junior Champion in the oldest age group at the competition which was held in Ziska's hometown Tórshavn that year.[15] In 2010 Anatoly Karpov visited the Faroe Islands, and on that occasion Ziska won against him in fast chess, but also lost against him.[16]

Ziska finished second at the Copenhagen Chess Challenge in 2012[17] and 2014.[18] He was second at the 2013 Danish Chess Championship, behind Davor Palo.[19]

In April 2016 Ziska won the 2nd European Small Nations Individual Chess Championship in Luxembourg City to qualify to participate at the Chess World Cup 2017.[20]

Honour

  • 2006 - Sportsman of the Year 2006 in The Faroe Islands[5]

References

  1. . Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  2. ^ Hansen, Jóannes (12 September 2016). "Helgi er stórmeistari!!" (in Faroese). in.fo. Archived from the original on 14 October 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  3. ^ Frederiksen, Leivur (29 August 2016). "Vangamyndin: Helgi Dam Ziska" (in Faroese). Kringvarp Føroya. Archived from the original on 2 September 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Helgi hevur vunnið GM norm" (in Faroese). in.fo. 10 August 2013. Archived from the original on 14 October 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  5. ^ a b c "Helgi Dam Ziska Sportsman of the Year 2006 in The Faroe Islands". World Chess Federation. 5 January 2007. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  6. ^ Nielsen, Jóanis (2 September 2016). "Talv OL: Føroyar vunnu fyrsta dystin". jn.fo (in Faroese). Archived from the original on 6 September 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  7. ^ "Title Applications - 1st quarter Presidential Board, 27-28 January 2007, Antalya, Turkey". FIDE. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  8. ^ Crowther, Mark (12 August 2013). "Riga Technical University Open 2013". The Week in Chess. Archived from the original on 2 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  9. ^ "GM Bartosz Socko lifts the trophy in Riga". Chessdom. 12 August 2013. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  10. ^ "Talv: Helgi Dam Ziska er nýggjur føroyameistari". vev.fo (in Faroese). Kringvarp Føroya. 22 March 2008. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2008.
  11. ^ "Helgi Dam Ziska vann FM í snartalvi" (in Faroese). Kringvarp Føroya. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  12. ^ "Helgi vann FM í snartelving við fullum stigatali!" (in Faroese). Faroechess.com. 27 December 2015. Archived from the original on 15 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  13. ^ Pedersen, Steffen (20 February 2006). "To danske nordiske mestre" (in Danish). Dansk Skak Union. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  14. ^ "Unglingar telva NM í Havn" (in Faroese). Tórshavnar Kommuna. 6 February 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  15. ^ "Helgi vann" (in Faroese). Tórshavnar Kommuna. 14 February 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  16. ^ "Helgi vann á Karpov!" (in Faroese). Faroechess.com. 25 July 2010. Archived from the original on 15 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  17. ^ Skovgaard, Tom (7 May 2012). "Copenhagen Chess Challenge 2012" (in Danish). Københavns Skak Union. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  18. ^ "Jens Ove Fries-Nielsen winner of Copenhagen Chess Challenge". Chessdom. 20 May 2014. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  19. ^ Vestergaard, Thomas (31 March 2013). "Davor Palo danmarksmester". Dansk Skak Union. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  20. ^ "IM Helgi Dam Ziska wins European Small Nations Chess Championship". Chessdom. 12 April 2016. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.