Heikki Kallio

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Heikki Kallio (born October 15, 1980 in Vaasa ) is a Finnish chess player and professional poker player ( Texas Hold'em ). He has been a grandmaster in chess since 2001 .

Life

Heikki Kallio is a critic of the Finnish Chess Federation. Since October 2005 he is no longer active in chess. He is a professional Texas Hold'em poker player. As a politician, he ran for the Finnish Greens in the 2007 general election for the Finnish Parliament , but did not get enough votes.

Chess successes

At the U16 World Cup in 1994 in Szeged , he finished second. He won the Finnish U18 championship in 1995. For example, he won individual tournaments in 1995 in Pinneberg , 1999 in Budapest , 2001 in Budapest and Belgrade and in 2002 in Budapest and in the Cuban Santa Clara (Cuba) (together with Walter Arencibia ).

With the Finnish national team he took part in the Chess Olympiads in 2000 and 2002 , as well as in the European team championships in 2001 and 2003. With Sollentuna SK he was Swedish in the 1999/2000 season and Finnish team champion with Gaia Helsinki in the 2003/04 season.

His Elo rating is 2492 (as of August 2018), which puts him in second place behind Tomi Nybäck in the Finnish Elo ranking, but is listed as inactive because he has not played a rated chess game since October 2005. The highest rating Kallios to date was 2522 in January 2002.

He is one of the few chess players who successfully played the Anderssen opening (1. a3) at a high level. With this opening, for example, he won against Iweta Radziewicz and Ferenc Berkes at a First Saturday GM tournament in Budapest in 2001 and against the Irish Paul Walsh at the EU championship in Cork in 2005 .

Web links

English ( Memento from July 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Finnish ( memento from September 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heikki Kallios results at chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Heikki Kallios results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kallio, Heikki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Vaasa