Slavko Cicak (born 25 October 1969) is a Swedish
chess
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player. He was awarded the title
Grandmaster by
FIDE
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in 2001.
He played for Sweden in the
Chess Olympiad
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in 2006, 2008 and 2010 and in the European Team Chess Championship in 2007. In 2005 he tied for 6th–9th with
Normunds Miezis
Normunds Miezis (born 11 May 1971) is a Latvian chess Grandmaster (1997).
Chess career
He won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1991 and 2006. He played for Latvia in the Chess Olympiads of 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 20 ...
,
Joel Benjamin
Joel Lawrence Benjamin (born March 11, 1964) is an American chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). In 1998, he was voted "Grandmaster of the Year" by the U.S. Chess Federation. , his Elo rating was 2506, making him the No ...
and
Alexander Baburin
Alexander Evgenyevich Baburin (, ''Aleksandr Yevgen'yevich Baburin''; born 19 February 1967) is a Russian-Irish grandmaster of chess. He was born in Gorky, and has been living in Dublin, Ireland since 1993. He is editor-in-chief of the e-mail ...
in the
European Union Championship. In 2006 he tied for 2nd–5th with
Leonid Gofshtein,
José González García and
Josep Manuel Lopez Martinez in the 8th
Sants
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Open. In 2012, he shared first place with
Hans Tikkanen and
Emanuel Berg at the
Västerås
Västerås ( , , ) is a city in central Sweden on the shore of Lake Mälaren in the province of Västmanland, west of Stockholm. The city had a population of 127,799 at the end of 2019, out of the municipal total of 154,049.
Västerås is the se ...
Open.
References
External links
Slavko Cicakchess games at 365Chess.com
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1969 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Montenegrin chess players
Swedish chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
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