Jonny Hector


Jonny Hector, 2014
Association	Sweden Sweden
Born	February 13, 1964 Malmo , Sweden
title	International Master (1987) Grand Master (1991)
Current Elo rating	2483 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2609 (May 2010)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Jonny Hector (born February 13, 1964 in Malmö ) is a Swedish chess player .

Life

He only learned to play chess at the age of 14. He is married to a Danish woman and lives in Copenhagen . He has one child (* 2004). In 1991 and 1997 he was awarded the Schackgideon , a once a year award from the Swedish Chess Federation named after Gideon Ståhlberg .

Close chess

Single successes

Jonny Hector at the Jersey Festival Open in Saint Helier , February 2005

In 1984 he became the Swedish rapid chess champion in Stockholm . In 1989 he won the international tournament in Gausdal with a lead of 1.5 points over Igor Rausis and Heikki Westerinen . At the Rilton Cup in Stockholm he never won, but achieved several good placements: 1989/90 5th place, 1990/91 3rd place, 1992/93 2nd place, 1993/94 2nd place and 2000/01 8th place . At the 2nd international tournament of the Hellir Reykjavík chess club in 1997 in Reykjavík , he was tied for third place behind Ludger Keitlinghaus and Jörg Hickl . In 1998 he shared victory with Julian Hodgson at the 1st Oxford International , a Category 9 tournament in Oxford , ahead of John Nunn and Emil Sutovsky . In Gausdal he won the 3rd Arnold J. Eikrem Memorial with 7.5 out of 9 and a big lead. In the same year he won the Roskilde Open, tied with Jonathan Speelman . In 2000 he won the Copenhagen Open in Copenhagen together with Boris Gulko and Lars Bo Hansen . He won the International Hamburg Championship in 2001 and 2002, each with 8 out of 9, in 2001 with one and a half and in 2002 with two points and an Elo rating of 2809. In 2001 he won the SoLett Open in Skellefteå , a nine-round tournament based on the Swiss system . He won the Swedish individual championship in a category 9 tournament in 2002 before Evgeny Agrest in Skara . In 2004 he won the centenary tournament of the Copenhagen chess club AS 04 . At the Swedish Championship in Gothenburg in 2006 he was third behind Johan Hellsten and Emanuel Berg . In the same year he was third at the Politiken Cup in Taastrup , tied behind Wadym Malachatko and Nigel Short and won the LGA Open in Nuremberg ahead of Alexander Graf and Daniel Fridman . In 2008 he was tied for the third time at the Politiken Cup , also known as the Copenhagen Open , which this time took place in Helsingør . In 2010 he won the GM tournament for the 75th anniversary of the BSF club in Copenhagen-Brønshøj.

National team

With the Swedish national team he took part in four chess Olympiads , in 1988 in Thessaloniki on the second reserve board, in 1992 in Manila on the third board, in 2000 in Istanbul on the third board (with an Elo performance of 2634) and in 2002 in Bled on the third board. At the Chess Olympiads he got a total of 25.5 points from 42 games (+17 = 17 −8, 60.7 percent). He also played at four European team championships . In 1989 in Haifa he had the best result of all players on the fourth board with 6 points from 8 games (Elo performance 2614), in 2001 in León he also played on the fourth board, in 2003 in Plovdiv on the second board and in 2005 in Gothenburg on the first reserve board. At European team championships, his overall balance is 15.5 out of 29 (+12 = 7 −10, 53.4 percent).

Club teams

From 1994 until the end of the commitment of the club sponsor after the 2002/03 season, he played in Germany at Lübecker SV . During this time he won the German team championship three times in a row between 2001 and 2003 . Since the 2005/06 season he played for SK Turm Emsdetten , now for SG Turm Kiel . In the Swedish Elitserien he plays on the top board of the Malmö chess club Limhamns SK , with which he won the team championship in the 2012/13 season , in the 1980s and 1990s he played for the Malmö chess club Kirsebergs SK . In the Danish first division he plays for the Græsteder Skakklubb Nordkalotten . He has also played in the Icelandic team championship, most recently in the 2001/02 season. In the Spanish team championship , Hector played for RC Labradores Sevilla in 1988 and 1990 , and in 2003 for CA Alzira .

Play style and rating

Jonny Hector is known for interesting openings. His playing style is aggressive with a deep knowledge of little known gambit lines . He likes to set the Göring gambit , the Schara-Hennig gambit , the Desprez opening , the Breyer variant in the Viennese part , the Sleipner opening , Sicilian in the Paulsen variant and the Neo-Archangelsk variant in the Spanish Defense one.

In 1987 he became international master , since 1991 he has been a grand master . With his highest rating of 2609 in May 2010, he was behind Emanuel Berg in second place in the Swedish Elo ranking.

Correspondence chess

In correspondence chess , his current rating is 2616 (as of March 22, 2009), which puts him on the shared 48th place in the correspondence chess world rankings. The last time he played for the Swedish national team was correspondence chess in 2003, in an international match against Germany. His opponent was Stephan Busemann . Hector holds the title of Grand Master in correspondence chess.