Bart Michiels


Bart Michiels, 2011
Association	Belgium Belgium
Born	October 30, 1986 Ghent
title	International Master (2004) Grand Master (2014)
Current Elo rating	2567 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2572 (January 2020)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Bart Michiels (born October 30, 1986 in Gent ) is a Belgian chess player .

Life

He is studying engineering at the University of Ghent . While working on his dissertation on electromagnetism , he is a research associate at the university in the field of information technology.

successes

In 1997 he won the Stork Open , the open Dutch U14 championship, in Hengelo . In July 2004 he won the Belgian individual championship as the youngest player to succeed in Westerlo with equal points in front of Alexandre Dgebuadze . In 2007 he became the Belgian student champion. In 2011 he won the Belgian individual championship as the best placed Belgian at the expert tournament in Antwerp-Berchem . The tournament was won by the Armenian international master Mher Howhannisjan , who is now a grandmaster .

He also plays club chess in Belgium for KGSRL ( Koninklijke Gentse Schaakkring Ruy Lopez ), with whom he became Belgian team champion in 2016 , also in the Netherlands, initially for HWP Sas van Gent , from 2010 to 2014 for SO Rotterdam and since the 2014/15 season for Charlois Europoort , with whom he became champion in 2015. In the German 2nd Bundesliga West he played for three seasons from 2003 for SC Remagen , and in the 2009/10 Bundesliga season for Erfurt SK . For the 2010/11 season he returned to SC Remagen and played with them in the 1st Bundesliga until 2012. In the 2015/16 season he played at DJK Aufwärts St. Josef Aachen in the 2nd Bundesliga. In the French top 12 he played for Grasse Echecs in the 2014/15 season .

For the Belgian national team he played on the top board at the 2010 Chess Olympiad, on the third board at the 2012 Chess Olympiad and on the second board at the 2014 Chess Olympiad , and on the first board at the 2013 European Team Championship.

He has held the title of International Master since February 2004 and was the youngest Belgian to succeed until Tanguy Ringoir (* 1994) was awarded the title in 2010. He achieved the standards for this in November 2002 at the 17th International Open in Le Touquet , in August 2003 at the Stork Young Masters in Hengelo and in November 2003 at the 18th International Open in Le Touquet. Michiels has held the title of Grand Master since April 2014, and he achieved the required standards at the Belgian team championship in 2008/09 , at the InventiChess in September 2010 in Antwerp and at the European team championship in November 2013 in Warsaw .