Helgi Áss Grétarsson

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Helgi Dagbjartur Áss Grétarsson (born February 18, 1977 ) is an Icelandic chess player .

He became world champion under 20 years of age in Matinhos, Brazil, in 1994 and was then awarded the title of grandmaster by the world chess federation FIDE . At the FIDE World Chess Championship in Groningen , which was first played in knock-out mode in 1997 , Helgi Áss Grétarsson failed after an opening win against the Spaniard Miguel Illescas Córdoba in the second round to Artur Jussupow .

In 2002 and 2004 Grétarsson was second in the Icelandic national championships, he had to bow to Hannes Stefánsson , most recently he was defeated by this just after a playoff over four games (+0 = 3 −1). Grétarsson played for the Icelandic national team at all three chess Olympiads from 1994 to 1998 , and for the last time in 2002 in Bled , on the second board behind Hannes Stefánsson. In the British Four Nations Chess League Helgi Áss Grétarsson played in the 1999/2000 season for White Rose , in the same season he played in the Swedish Elitserien at Lunds ASK . In the Czech Extra League he played from 1998 to 2000 for ŠK Sokol Kolín , in Iceland for Taflfélag Reykjavíkur and Taflfélagið Hellir ; with both clubs he also took part in the European Club Cup .

His Elo rating is 2448 (as of August 2016), its all-time highest rating of 2563 reached Grétarsson in July 2000th

Grétarsson was married to the native Czech Lenka Ptáčníková , a women's grandmaster who won the Icelandic women's championship several times. Together they both won the “Family Championship” of the ZMD-Open in Dresden in 2002. Professionally, he works as a lawyer and lecturer at the University of Iceland .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FIDE World Championships 1997
  2. ↑ National Championship Iceland 2002 (English)
  3. ↑ National Championship Iceland 2004
  4. ↑ Helgi Áss Grétarsson's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Helgi Áss Grétarsson's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Grétarsson's Elo development from 2000 (English)
  7. ↑ Grétarsson's Elo development from 1990 to 2001 (English)
  8. ↑ 2nd Open German Family Championship , accessed on May 2, 2018
  9. ↑ Skák og mát? Article on pressan.is of October 19, 2009, accessed on September 22, 2016
  10. ↑ Helgi Dagbjartur Áss Grétarsson on the Háskóli Íslands website , accessed on September 22, 2016
Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .
personal data
SURNAME Helgi Áss Grétarsson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gretarsson, Helgi Ass (FIDE); Gretarsson, Hannes (SCHACH magazine)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION icelandic chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 18th February 1977