Jan Gustafsson

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Jan Gustafsson, 2010
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born June 25, 1979
Hamburg
title International Master (1999)
Grand Master (2003)
Current  Elo rating 2643 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2652 (November 2010)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Jan Gustafsson (born June 25, 1979 in Hamburg ) is a German grandmaster in chess .

Career

Early years

Jan Gustafsson has his chess roots with Hamburger SK . As a teenager he already had successes at the German level, for example he won the German team championship in the U13 age group in 1992, the German championship in the U15 age group in Bad Bevensen in 1994 and both the individual championship in the U17 age group and the team championship in the age group in 1996 U20. In 1999 he began studying law, which he has not yet completed.

Single successes

In 1999 Gustafsson was named International Master by FIDE , and in 2003 Grand Master. Jan Gustafsson is one of the strongest German chess players and was German runner-up in 2004, 2005 and 2011. He is also a very strong blitz player and became the German blitz master in 2001 and 2010 .

In July 2008 he managed to take the second place behind Péter Lékó in the super tournament at the Dortmund Chess Days with 4 points from 7 games . Among other things, he was able to leave the former world chess champion Wladimir Kramnik behind.

Team chess

Gustafsson has been a regular in the first Bundesliga since 1997 . In 2009 he moved from Hamburg SK to the reigning German team champion OSG Baden-Baden , with whom he became champions in 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019 . In the Austrian 1st Bundesliga he played from 2000 to 2010 for SK Hohenems , with which he was team champion in 2004 , and from 2010 to 2012 for SK Sparkasse Jenbach , with which he was Austrian team champion in 2011 .

In 2002 he was nominated for the first time in the German national team on the occasion of a friendship match against Greece . In 2004 in Calvià , 2006 in Turin , 2008 in Dresden and 2012 in Istanbul he represented Germany at the Chess Olympiads , at European team championships he was part of the German team in all five competitions from 2003 to 2011 . In November 2011 he became European team champion with the German national team after a sensational win against Armenia in the last round .

Gustafsson won the Dutch team championship in 2003 and 2005 with ZZICT / De Variant Breda , he has also played in this league for Apeldoorn . In the Spanish team championship he played in 2004 and 2005 for CA Valencia-Cuna del Ajedrez Moderno , in 2008 and 2010 for CA Escuela Int. Kasparov-Marcote Mondariz , with whom he won the title in 2010 , and in 2015 for Chess24-VTI-Atocha . Gustafsson also played in Swiss (for SV Wollishofen ) and French leagues (for Orcher la Tour Gonfreville ).

Elo chart

Elo development

further activities

Nigel Short and Jan Gustafsson comment live on the internet at the GRENKE Chess Classic 2015 in Baden-Baden

Gustafsson is also active as a second , among others he worked for Magnus Carlsen , Péter Lékó and Jan Smeets .

For ChessBase he recorded video lessons that were published on DVD under the title Black Repertoire against 1. e4 . In it, he recommends, among other things, the Marshall attack , of which he is one of the leading experts. He has also on the platform Chess24 numerous video tutorials to openings and middlegame published and commented there also regular tournaments in the live stream and occasionally as his alter ego provocative Radio Jan . His "Banter Blitz Sessions" (blitz games with simultaneous live commentary) are also popular.

At times he played a lot of poker and in 2007 he wrote the book Poker for Winners ( ISBN 978-3-9811543-1-3 ) together with Marcel Lüske . He also introduced the German chess grandmaster Matthias Wahls to poker, who in 2007 co-founded the world's largest poker school, PokerStrategy.com .

Occasionally Gustafsson can be seen on the YouTube channel Rocket Beans TV and comments on chess games taking place there.

Web links

Commons : Jan Gustafsson  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German chess youth: German U15 championship in Bad Bevensen 1994
  2. ^ German chess youth: German championship U17 in Pinneberg 1996
  3. ↑ The Eternal Student on: spiegel-online, accessed on March 5, 2010.
  4. ↑ Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2008 on TeleSchach
  5. ↑ Jan Gustafsson's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Jan Gustafsson's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ We are European champions! on schachbund.de, November 11, 2011
  8. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
  9. ↑ Inside Team Carlsen: Q&A with Peter Heine Nielsen . In: Chess News . December 9, 2016 ( chessbase.com [accessed February 27, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 11, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Gustafsson, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg