Jaan Ehlvest

Jaan Ehlvest, Tallinn 2014
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Estonia (1992 to 2006) United States (since 2006)
Born	October 14, 1962 Tallinn , Soviet Union
title	International Master (1983) Grand Master (1987)
Current  Elo rating	2517 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2660 (January and July 1996)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Jaan Ehlvest (born October 14, 1962 in Tallinn , Estonian SSR ) is an Estonian chess grandmaster .

Life

Jaan Ehlvest

He learned to play chess from his mother at the age of six. At the age of eight he received a trained coach , at 14 he won the Tallinn City Championship for adults. Because of his talent, he was invited to courses at the Soviet chess school led by former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik , where he made the acquaintance of Garry Kasparov , among others .

In 1981 he won the junior championship of the USSR , in 1983 he finished second in the junior world championship and won the junior European championship in Groningen . In 1986 he won the national championship of Estonia, although he suffered from alcohol problems during this time . In 1987 he finished his studies of psychology at the State University of Tartu .

One of his greatest chess successes was the third place at the world cup tournament in Belfort in 1988 behind Kasparov and Anatoli Karpow , but in front of numerous world-class players.

Ehlvest was the sole winner of the very strong invitation tournament in Reggio nell'Emilia from 1989/90, he won with a full point in front of 2. Wassyl Ivanchuk , 3. Anatoli Karpov, 4./5. Zoltán Ribli and Ulf Andersson , a total of eleven players, including Lajos Portisch and Alexander Beliavsky , who came last.

The New York Open in 1994 won Ehlvest thanks to better fine-vote in a divided 1-2. Rank ahead of his compatriot Lembit Oll with equal points . Already in 1993 Ehlvest had reached the shared first to seventh place at the New York Open, but did not have the best ranking.

Jaan Ehlvest played at several FIDE knockout world championships :

• In 1999 in Las Vegas he lost in the second round to Yevgeny Bareev
• In 2000 in New Delhi he eliminated Ivanchuk, but then lost to Alexander Grishchuk
• In 2001 in Moscow he made it to the fourth round, but then failed again because of Bareev.

He has been playing for the USA Chess Federation since March 15, 2006 .

His brother Jüri Ehlvest was a well-known Estonian writer.

Team chess

National team

Ehlvest took part in eight Chess Olympiads , in 1988 in Thessaloniki with the Soviet team that won the tournament, 1992 to 2004 with the Estonian team. He achieved the third best individual result on the second board in Moscow in 1994 . Ehlvest won the 1989 World Team Championship in Lucerne with the Soviet team and took part in the 1997 European Team Championship in Pula with the Estonian team .

societies

Ehlvest took part in the European Club Cup six times between 1992 and 1999 and represented five different clubs (Lyon-Oyonnax, Paide MK, Peristeri Athens, Baltika Liepāja and Pärnu MK). In the Swedish Elitserien he played between 1999 and 2003 at SK Rockaden Stockholm and was with this 2001 Swedish team champion. In the United States Chess League , he played for the Philadelphia Inventors in 2006 , and for Tennessee Tempo in 2008 and 2009 .

Awards

• Estonia's Sportsman of the Year 1987, 1989
• Order of the Estonian Red Cross 4th category (2001)

literature

• J. Ehlvest: The story of a chess player . Arbiter Publishing, New York 2004, ISBN 0-9763891-0-X .

Web links

Commons : Jaan Ehlvest  - Collection of Images

• Portrait at the US Chess Federation ( Memento from December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Replayable chess games by Jaan Ehlvest on 365Chess.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Caroline Winkler: World Cup started in Belfort . Schach-Echo 1988, issue 7, pages 259 to 263 (report, table, games).
2. ↑ Change of association in 2006 at FIDE (English)
3. ↑ Jaan Ehlvest's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Jaan Ehlvest's results at the team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Jaan Ehlvest's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Jaan Ehlvest's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Bearers of decorations - Jaan Ehlvest . www.president.ee. Retrieved December 28, 2009.