Ilkka Salmi (chess player)

Ilkka Salmi (* 1956 ) is a Finnish correspondence chess player .

Life

Ilkka Salmi is an accountant by profession and has three daughters. He lives in Hyvinkää .

His club is the Hyvinkää Shakkikerhon , where he takes part in team fights and is president. At the 1995 World Youth Championship in Guarapuava , Brazil , he was employed by the Finnish Chess Federation as a coach.

Correspondence chess

In correspondence chess, he is mainly active in team tournaments for the Finnish national team. The international matches that Finland won with him include comparisons against France in 2003/04, Norway in 2006 and Sweden in 2013/14.

In 2009 he was named International Master (IM) in correspondence chess and in 2010 he was named Honored International Master (SIM). He achieved the norms for his title in the final of the VI. European team championship 2004/07, in which he had the best individual result of all participants ahead of Grandmaster Ingo Schütt with 8.5 points from 13 games, and at the Baltic Sea team tournament 2008/10. His highest correspondence chess rating was 2,469 in the second quarter of 2002 and the fourth quarter of 2013.

Web links

• Ilkka Salmi at the World Correspondence Chess Federation ICCF (English)
• Detailed article about Ilkka Salmi on shakki.net ( PDF , Finnish)
• Ilkka Salmi at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)