Johan Hellsten (born 25 December 1975) is a Swedish

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grandmaster. He was

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, ...

in 2006.

Chess career

Born in 1975, Hellsten earned his

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title in 1995 and his grandmaster title in 2004.Hellsten, Johan FIDE Chess Profile
/ref> In 2006, he won the

Swedish Chess Championship 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, Gi ...

. He played for Sweden in the

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and ...

s of 1996, 2004 and 2006 and in the

European Team Chess Championship The European Team Championship (often abbreviated in texts and games databases as ''ETC'') is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of European nations whose chess federations are located in zones 1.1 to 1.9. This more ...

s of 1997, 2003 and 2005. He tied for second–sixth with

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and Erik van den Doel in the Abihome Open 2000 and tied for first with Dmitry Svetushkin and Marcin Szymanski in the Ikaros Chess Festival 2003. As of the July 2020 rating

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list, he has an

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of 2550, making him the No. 4 ranked Swedish player, though he is inactive. Hellsten was champion in the chess tournament "Semana Valdiviana", Chile, 2002.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hellsten, Johan 1975 births Living people Chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Chess writers Swedish chess players Sportspeople from Malmö