Mark Lapidus (born 27 December 1995) is an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

player who won the

Estonian Chess Championship The Estonian Chess Championship is played to determine the Estonian champion in chess. The first unofficial championship in Estonia was held in 1903 and was organized by a chess club from Tallinn (then Reval, Russian Empire). After World War I, ...

in 2012.

Chess career

Mark Lapidus won the Estonian Junior Chess Championships (U16) in 2009 and 2011. From 2004 he participated in the European Junior Chess Championships and the World Junior Chess Championships in different age groups. He won an IM norm at the World Junior Championship (2012). In the Estonian Chess Championship Mark Lapidus has won gold medal (2012). Mark Lapidus played for Estonia in

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 FIDE Onli ...

s:Men's Chess Olympiads :: Mark Lapidus
/ref> * In 2012, at second board in the

40th Chess Olympiad The 40th Chess Olympiad (), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, was an international team chess event that took p ...

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(+2, =2, -4).

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* * * 1995 births Living people Estonian chess players Chess Olympiad competitors Chess players from Tallinn {{Estonia-sport-bio-stub