Hans Tikkanen

Hans Tikkanen, 2016
Surname	Hans Christian Tikkanen
Association	Sweden
Born	February 6, 1985 Karlstad
title	International Master (2007) Grand Master (2010)
Current  Elo rating	2498 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2596 (July 2011)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Hans Christian Tikkanen (born February 6, 1985 in Karlstad ) is a Swedish chess player . He is Sweden's 20th chess grandmaster .

Life

Hans Tikkanen is the son of the international FIDE referee Tapio Tikkanen (* 1947) and studies psychology . His club is the southern Swedish Lunds ASK .

successes

Tournaments

In 2002 he won the Swedish U20 championship in Skara . In 2011 he won the Fynsmesterskabet in Odense and shared first place with Wesley So and Anish Giri at the Sigeman & Co tournament in Malmö .

In July 2011 he won the Swedish national championship in Västerås with 6.5 points from 9 games ahead of Jonny Hector and Pia Cramling . In July 2012 in Falun Tikkanen was again national champion after he prevailed in a playoff against Bengt Lindberg , Axel Smith and Emanuel Berg . He defended the title in July 2013 in Örebro in a playoff against Nils Grandelius . For the fourth time, Tikkanen became the Swedish single champion in Stockholm in 2017 . Tikkanen won his fifth title in Ronneby in July 2018 .

Title and rating

After six IM standards, he was awarded the title of International Master in November 2007 . He achieved the norms at the Czech Open in Pardubice in July 2003, where he defeated Pavel Blatný , at the Junior World Championship in December 2004 in Kochi , India with, among other things, a win against Jan Smeets , at the European Team Championship in Gothenburg in 2005 (with overachievement ), in which he played for Sweden 3 and won against Jonny Hector , among others , in the Swedish team championship 2006/07 , at the 36th Rilton Cup in Stockholm in January 2007 and in the B group of the Grand Masters tournament in Olomouc in August 2007 .

He has been a grandmaster since October 2010. He achieved the necessary norms within six weeks between July 31st and September 12th, 2010 - the first with his second place behind Anton Korobow at the Czech Open in Pardubice with overachievement, the second with the cup of the Aleksandras Stulginskis University in Kaunas (also with over-fulfillment), which he won, as well as the third at the XtraCon 5 tournament in Borup near Køge with victories against, among others, Tiger Hillarp Persson and Kaido Külaots .

In February 2015, he is in fifth place in the Swedish Elo ranking.

National team

With the Swedish national team Tikkanen took part in the Chess Olympiads in 2012 and 2014 and the European Team Championships in 2005 (in Sweden's third team), 2011 and 2013.

societies

Tikkanen has been playing with Lunds ASK in the Swedish Elitserien since the 1999/2000 season . With this he became Swedish team champion in 2011 and 2019 and took part in the European Club Cup 2011. In the German Bundesliga he played for Hansa Dortmund in the 2011/12 season , in the Icelandic team championship he played for Haukar in the 2009/10 season , in Norway he played for the Schakklubben av 1911 and from 2011 to 2011 2013 for the Kristiansunds SK . In the Danish Skakligaen he played in the 2015/16 season for the Charlottenlunder club Philidor , with which he became champion, and in the 2018/19 season for the Xtracon Køge team , with which he also won the title.

Publications

• with Axel Smith: The Woodpecker Method . Quality Chess, Glasgow 2019, ISBN 978-1-78483-055-7 .

Web links

Commons : Hans Tikkanen  - Collection of Images

• Re-playable chess games by Hans Tikkanen on 365Chess.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tournament website (Swedish), accessed July 26, 2011
2. ↑ Final score at the Swedish Chess Federation (Swedish)
3. ↑ Klaus Besenthal: Hans Tikkannen is Swedish master. In: ChessBase. July 8, 2018, accessed July 8, 2018 . 
4. ↑ IM application (English)
5. ↑ GM application ( PDF , English; 913 kB)
6. ↑ Hans Tikkan's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Hans Tikkanens results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Hans Tikkanens results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)