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Toms Kantāns (born 16 January 1994) is a Latvian chess grandmaster (2017).

Toms Kantāns
Kantāns in 2022
Country	Latvia
Born	(1994-01-16) 16 January 1994 (age 28) Riga, Latvia
Title	Grandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating	2517 (November 2022)
Peak rating	2541 (August 2017)

Biography

Kantāns started playing chess at the age of six.[1] He has been a Latvian Youth Chess Champion in different age groups, and regularly participated in the European Youth and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups. In 2007, he won silver medal in European Union Youth Championship in the U14 age group,[2] but in 2008 in this same tournament won bronze medal.[3] Since 2009, Toms Kantans has regularly participated in the Latvian Chess Championships. Best results – 2nd place (2015, 2017) and 3rd place (2010, 2014). He is multiple winner of Latvian Team Chess Championship with Riga Technical University team (2010, 2012, 2015). In August 2022, Kantāns finished second in the Riga Technical University Open "A" tournament.[4]

Kantāns played for Latvia team:

• in Chess Olympiads (2010, 2014, 2018, 2022);[5][6]
• in European Team Chess Championship participated in 2015;[7]
• in 2013 Summer Universiade chess tournament.[8]

In 2014, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title[9] and received the FIDE International Grandmaster (GM) title three years later.[10]

Personal life

In 2015, Kantāns married Polish chess master Anna Iwanow (born 1995).[11]

References

External links

• Toms Kantans player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Toms Kantans chess games at 365Chess.com

На других языках

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[de] Toms Kantāns

Toms Kantāns (* 16. Januar 1994 in Riga) ist ein lettischer Schachspieler.

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- [en] Toms Kantāns

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[ru] Кантанс, Том

Том Кантанс (латыш. Toms Kantāns; род. 16 января 1994, Рига) — латвийский шахматист, гроссмейстер (2017).

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