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Kjetil Aleksander Lie (born 18 November 1980 in
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) is a Norwegian
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player, and Norway's eighth
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(GM). Lie was the Norwegian chess champion in 2009 and 2010. Representing the chess club in
Porsgrunn is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Porsgrunn (town), city ...
, Lie is the first Norwegian GM not from the
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vicinity. Lie started playing scholastic chess at the age of eight. In 1994 he won the Norwegian championship for the cadet age group (14- and 15-year-olds). He won the Open Norwegian Championship in 2000, and finished first in the top age group in the Norwegian Youth Championships every year from 2000 to 2003. In 2002, Lie was awarded the title of
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. The required three Grandmaster norms came in the Norwegian team chess championship of 2003 to 2004, Politiken Cup in
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in 2004, and Smartfish Chess Masters in
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in December 2004 and January 2005. Even after these norms, Lie had still not achieved the required
Elo rating The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American chess master and physics professor. The Elo system wa ...
of 2500 until he won the first two rounds in a local tournament in Porsgrunn at the end of February 2005. These wins gave Lie a rating of 2500.5, and it did not matter that Lie immediately proceeded to lose the third game. During the 2007 candidates matches in
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, Lie served as
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's second, helping with analysis and preparations. He was praised by Magnus's father for his efforts and humor. Lie has played on the Norwegian team at the
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s between 2000 and 2010. In the 2008 Olympiad in
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, Lie's third round win over
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secured Norway an upset win over China. Lie secured his first Norwegian chess championship in
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2009 with 6.5/9 points, despite an upset loss to Lasse Løvik in the first round. In the 2010 championship, Lie was one of four players to share first place with 6.0/9, the three others being his brother
Espen Lie Espen Lie (born January 3, 1984) is a Norwegian chess player who currently holds the title of International Master, and was the Norwegian Chess Champion for 2007. He is the younger brother of GM Kjetil A. Lie. Lie plays for the chess club in Po ...
, Joachim Thomassen, and
Frode O. O. Urkedal Frode Olav Olsen Urkedal (born 14 May 1993) is a Norwegian chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, and is the 2012 and 2014 Norwegian champion. Career Urkedal began playing chess as an after-school activity at his school at Kjelsås, ...
. Later that year, he won the double round-robin play-offs 14–17 October in Stavanger with 4/6. Lie's playing style is aggressive and sacrificial, and he is known as a dangerous tactician. With White, Lie has varied between 1.c4 and 1.e4, with Black he prefers sharp defenses such as the
Sicilian Defence The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: :1. e4 c5 The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. The opening 1.d4 is a statistically more successful opening for Whi ...
and
Benoni Defense The Benoni Defense, or simply the Benoni, is a chess opening characterized by an early reply of ...c5 against White's opening move 1.d4. The original form of the Benoni, now known as the Old Benoni, is characterized by : 1. d4 c5 This leaves ...
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* * * Hansen, Victor "Første stormester fra landet". (2005). Norsk Sjakkblad, pp. 5-7
Online pdf file
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lie, Kjetil Aleksander 1980 births Living people Norwegian chess players Chess Grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Sportspeople from Porsgrunn