Hannes Hlífar Stefánsson (born 18 July 1972) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster. He has won the Icelandic Chess Championship thirteen times, which makes him the record holder for most Icelandic Championship victories.
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Full name | Hannes Hlífar Stefánsson |
Country | Iceland |
Born | (1972-07-18) 18 July 1972 (age 49) Reykjavík, Iceland |
Title | Grandmaster (1993) |
FIDE rating | 2541 (July 2022) |
Peak rating | 2604 (January 2002) |
Born in 1972, Hannes won the World U16 Chess Championship in 1987. He won the Acropolis International in 1993[1] He tied for first to third in the Reykjavik open in 1994, together with Pigusov and Zvjagintsev and tied for 1st–4th with Hedinn Steingrimsson, Yuriy Kryvoruchko and Mihail Marin in the Reykjavik Open tournament 2009.[2] He won the International chess tournament Open Teplice 2015 in the Czech Republic.[3] He is the No. 2 ranked Icelandic player as of September 2020.[4]
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