Erik Blomqvist (born 19 October 1990) is a Swedish
chess grandmaster. He is a two-time
Swedish Chess Champion The first Swedish Champion was Gustaf Nyholm, who won two matches against winners of national tournaments: Berndtsson in Göteborg and Löwenborg in Stockholm in 1917. Up until 1931 Swedish Chess Championships decided by match play. In the 1930s, ...
.
Chess career
Born in 1990, Blomqvist earned his
international master
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combinatio ...
title in 2008 and his
grandmaster title in 2013.
He won the
Swedish Chess Championship in 2016 with a score of 7½/9 (+6–0=3), two points ahead of runner-up
Nils Grandelius. In 2016 he also won the
Nordic Chess Championship The Nordic Chess Championship (''Nordiska Schackkongressen'') is a biennal chess tournament which determines the champion of the Nordic countries. The first edition took place in Stockholm in 1897.
History
The winners in the Nordic Championship i ...
. He won the Swedish Championship again in 2019.
He was the No. 6 ranked Swedish player as of July 2020.
In August 2022, he finished third in the
Riga Technical University Open
Riga Technical University Open (also RTU Open) is international "open" chess festival, annually held in Riga, Latvia in August. It is the largest classical chess tournament in the Baltic states.
Abstract
The Riga Technical University Open is h ...
"A" tournament.
References
External links
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1990 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Sportspeople from Stockholm
Swedish chess players
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