Jaan Eslon

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Jaan Eslon 1972 Strasbourg.jpg
Jaan Eslon, Strasbourg 1972
Association SwedenSweden Sweden
Born March 4, 1952
Falköping , Sweden
Died September 24, 2000
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
title International champion (1977)
Best Elo rating 2445 (July 1981, July 1984 to January 1985)

Jaan Eslon (born March 4, 1952 in Falköping , † September 24, 2000 in Las Palmas ) was a Swedish chess master .

Life

Eslon won the Swedish Junior Championship in 1969. In 1974 he took part for Sweden in the student team world championship in Stockton-on-Tees . In 1976 he finished second in Eksjö , and in 1977 the World Chess Federation awarded him the title of International Master .

In 1978 he celebrated the greatest success of his career when he won the first ever tournament in Linares . Eslon has lived in Spain since 1977, in the 1990s he had his residence in Castellón and participated in numerous Spanish tournaments: He won in Jávea 1992 (1st - 3rd), Valencia 1992, Ceuta 1992 (B tournament), Mislata 1995 (1-3) and Candás 1997. In the Spanish team championship , he played from 1979 to 1983 for CA Gambito Valencia. Eslon died of a heart attack during a chess tournament in Las Palmas in 2000 (according to another source, he died in a car accident). He was the father of a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Jaan Eslon  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 93
  2. ↑ a b c Obituary in Tidskrift för Schack 8/2000, page 504f. (PDF file, 1.58 MB; Swedish)
  3. ↑ Jaan Eslon's results in the Spanish team championship on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ TWIC 307
  5. ↑ chessbase.com
personal data
SURNAME Eslon, Jaan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish chess player
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkoping
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2000
Place of death Las Palmas de Gran Canaria