Helgi Dam Ziska
Helgi Dam Ziska | |
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Country | Faroe Islands |
Born | Tórshavn, Faroe Islands | 27 July 1990
Title | Grandmaster (2017) |
FIDE rating | 2551 (March 2024) |
Peak rating | 2555 (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
In 2006 he competed at the
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
- ISBN 9781476633619. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
- ^ Hansen, Jóannes (12 September 2016). "Helgi er stórmeistari!!" (in Faroese). in.fo. Archived from the original on 14 October 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Helgi hevur vunnið GM norm" (in Faroese). in.fo. 10 August 2013. Archived from the original on 14 October 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "GM Bartosz Socko lifts the trophy in Riga". Chessdom. 12 August 2013. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Helgi Dam Ziska vann FM í snartalvi" (in Faroese). Kringvarp Føroya. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Unglingar telva NM í Havn" (in Faroese). Tórshavnar Kommuna. 6 February 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ "Helgi vann" (in Faroese). Tórshavnar Kommuna. 14 February 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ "Helgi vann á Karpov!" (in Faroese). Faroechess.com. 25 July 2010. Archived from the original on 15 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Vestergaard, Thomas (31 March 2013). "Davor Palo danmarksmester". Dansk Skak Union. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ "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.