Jonas Buhl Bjerre (born 26 June 2004) is a Danish

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grandmaster.

Biography

In 2015, Jonas Buhl Bjerre won the Nordic Youth Chess Championship in the group E (for players born in 2004 and 2005). The next year he won the group D. Bjerre won a gold medal at the 2017

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s, held in

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, in the U14 category. The next year, in

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, he took the bronze medal in the same division. In July 2018, Bjerre was awarded the title of international master by

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. A few months later he played for the Danish national team, on the reserve board, in the

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(+4, =4, -1). He tied for first place with Allan Stig Rasmussen in the Danish championship 2019 and lost the playoff match. Bjerre achieved his final

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for the title of grandmaster at the

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to become the youngest Dane ever to achieve this title. FIDE awarded him the title in March 2020. Bjerre participated in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2022 Challengers group where he finished 3rd with a score of 8.5 / 13.

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* * 2004 births Living people Danish chess players Chess Grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Place of birth missing (living people) {{Denmark-chess-bio-stub