Ľubomír Ftáčnik

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Ľubomír Ftáčnik
Ľubomír Ftáčnik in the German Chess League 2008/09
Surname Ľubomír Ftáčnik
Association CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Slovakia
SlovakiaSlovakia 
Born October 30, 1957
Bratislava , Czechoslovakia
title International Master (1977)
Grand Master (1980)
Current  Elo rating 2510 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2618 (January to June 2001)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Ľubomír Ftáčnik (born October 30, 1957 in Bratislava ) is a Slovak chess master .

Career

Ftáčnik did not learn chess until he was 13, but he still had numerous successes as a youth: in 1977 he won the European Youth Championship in Groningen and came second in the World Youth Championship that same year . That year he became International Master . 1980 awarded him FIDE the Grandmaster title .

Jan Smejkal and Ľubomír Ftáčnik at the 1988 Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki

In the 1980s it had its most successful phase. He won tournaments in Cienfuegos (Capablanca Memorial) 1980, Esbjerg 1982, Trnava and Travemünde 1983, Altensteig 1987, the Baden-Baden- Open 1987 and the international invitation tournament in Haninge , Sweden 1989. At the Dortmund Schachtagen 1981 he was third, tied with points the winner Hennadij Kusmin and Jonathan Speelman . He also won in Sydney 1991, Neuchâtel 1996, Forio on the island of Ischia 1996, Hamburg 1998, Los Angeles 1999 (shared with Tony Miles , Alexander Beliavsky and Suat Atalık ), Gold Coast 2000. In 2001 he finished second behind Konstantin Landa in Deizisau . In 2002 he won the Slovak championship and four times (1981, 1982, 1983 and 1985) the championship of Czechoslovakia. He is a distinguished employee and commentator at ChessBase .

By July 2003 it was among the top 100 in the world.

Team chess

National team

Ftáčnik first represented the ČSSR at seven Chess Olympiads . At the 1982 Chess Olympiad in Lucerne , he won silver with his home country. He then played ten times for Slovakia . Ftáčnik took part in five European team championships (1980 and 1989 for Czechoslovakia, 1997, 1999 and 2001 for Slovakia), where he achieved the best individual result on the sixth board in 1980 in Skara .

Club chess

Ftáčnik has been playing in the German Federal Chess League since 1989 , initially until 1991 for Munich SC 1836 , and since the 1992/93 season for Hamburg SK , with whom he also took part twice in the European Club Cup . Of the 327 Bundesliga competitions that Hamburg SK has contested since the 1992/93 season, Ftáčnik only missed seven (as of after the 2013/14 season). In the Austrian 1st Bundesliga (State League A until 2003), Ftáčnik played in the 1996/97 season for SG Pinggau-Friedberg, from 2000 to 2002 for Union Raika Gamlitz , from 2003 to 2008 for Union Ansfelden , with whom he played in 2005 and 2007 Austrian team champion and took part in the European Club Cup 2005, and in the 2008/09 season for ASVÖ Pamhagen .

In the Dutch master class , Ftáčnik has been playing occasionally at Rotterdam since 1997 , and he won the British Four Nations Chess League in 2000 with Slough , where he played from 1999 to 2001.

In the Czech Extra League, Ftáčnik played from 1993 to 1996 for TJ Bohemians Prague , with whom he became team champion in 1994 and took part in the European Club Cup, from 1996 to 2003 for ŠK Zlín , from 2003 to 2005 for ŠK Mahrla Prague , and since 2005 he has played for TJ Zikuda Turnov .

In the Slovak Extraliga , Ftáčnik has been playing for ŠK Slovan Bratislava since 1994 (although he remained without a service in the 2005/06 season and only played in the second highest division, the 1st division Zapad, in the 2006/07 season), with whom he played He was the Slovak team champion in 1996 , 1999 , 2001 , 2002 , 2009 and 2013 and took part in the European Club Cup in 1996, 1998 and 2009, where he also represented the Slovak clubs ŠK Bestex Nové Zámky (2001) and Corpora Lipovec (2003).

Private

Ftáčnik is the brother of politician Milan Ftáčnik , who was Slovakia's education minister from 1998 to 2002 and mayor of Bratislava from 2010 to 2014 . His twin Jan is a physicist at the Comenius University in Bratislava .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 77.
  2. ↑ Dortmund Chess Days 1981
  3. ↑ Ľubomír Ftáčnik's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Ľubomír Ftáčnik's results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ a b c d Ľubomír Ftáčnik's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Ľubomír Ftáčnik's results in the Czech extra league on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Results of the Slovak 1st league Zapad 2006/07 on chess-results.com
  8. ↑ Ľubomír Ftáčniks results in the Slovakian extra league on olimpbase.org (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Ftáčnik, Ľubomír
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ftacnik, Lubomir (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak chess master
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava