Hannes Hlífar Stefánsson (born 18 July 1972) is an Icelandic
chess
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grandmaster. He has won the
Icelandic Chess Championship The Icelandic Chess Championship is usually held in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. It is organised by the Icelandic Chess Federation (ICF), the body responsible for holding national chess events and for representing Icelandic chess at the World ...
a record thirteen times.
Chess career
Born in 1972, Hannes won the
World U16 Chess Championship in 1987. He won the
Acropolis International in 1993.
He tied for first to third in the Reykjavik Open in 1994, together with Pigusov and Zvjagintsev and tied for 1st–4th with
Hedinn Steingrimsson,
Yuriy Kryvoruchko and
Mihail Marin
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in the
Reykjavik Open
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tournament 2009. He won the International chess tournament Open
Teplice
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2015 in the Czech Republic. He is the No. 1 ranked Icelandic player
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1972 births
Living people
Hannes Stefansson
Chess Grandmasters
World Youth Chess Champions
Hannes Stefansson
Chess Olympiad competitors
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