Kjetil Lie

Kjetil Lie, Bergen 2009
Surname	Kjetil Aleksander Lie
Association	Norway
Born	November 18, 1980 Porsgrunn , Norway
title	International Master (2002) Grand Master (2005)
Current  Elo rating	2520 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2563 (October 2007)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Kjetil Aleksander Lie (born November 18, 1980 in Porsgrunn ) is a Norwegian chess player .

As the eighth Norwegian to become a grandmaster , playing for the Porsgrunn Sjakklubb in southern Telemark , he is the first Norwegian grandmaster not to come from the greater Oslo area.

Life

Kjetil Lie at the Norwegian Championship in Hamar , July 2007

Lie started playing chess when he was eight. In 1994 he became Norwegian U15 champion. In 2000 and 2006 he won the Norwegian Open Championship. In October 2006 he won the Masters in Gausdal ahead of Tiger Hillarp Persson . For the Norwegian national team, he took part in six chess Olympiads from 2000 to 2008 and 2014 (+26 = 19 −17), as well as in the European team championships in 2005, 2007 and 2011 (+7 = 7 −13). In 2009 he won the Norwegian individual championship in Bergen .

In the Norwegian Eliteserien , he played for Porsgrunn Team Buer from 2006 to 2012 and for the Asker Schakklubb from the 2013/14 season to the 2015/16 season . From 2016 to 2019 he played for Vålerenga Sjakklubb , with whom he became Norwegian team champion in 2017 , 2018 and 2019 and took part in the European Club Cup 2018, in the 2019/20 season for SOSS .

In 2002 he became International Master . He achieved grandmaster standards in the Norwegian team championship 2003/2004 as well as at the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen in 2004 and in January 2005 at the Smartfish Chess Masters in Drammen (as a substitute for Simen Agdestein at short notice due to illness and the only non-GM); However , he had not yet reached the required Elo rating of 2500. At the end of February 2005 he played a local tournament in Porsgrunn. Since he won in the first two rounds and thus achieved an Elo rating of 2500.5 according to a preliminary evaluation, this secured him the Grandmaster title, even if he had lost three Elo points at the end of the tournament.

At the 2007 World Championship candidate tournament in Elista , he seconded Magnus Carlsen .

Lie is considered a self-sacrificing chess player.

In February 2015 he is in sixth place in the Norwegian Elo ranking.

His younger brother Espen (* 1984) is also a strong chess player, an international master with a highest Elo rating of 2476 from August to October 2012.

Web links

Commons : Kjetil Lie  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Kjetil Lie on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kjetil Read the results of the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Kjetil Reads results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ 34th European Club Cup team line-up with individual results Valerenga Sjakklubb. In: chess-results.com. October 24, 2018, accessed June 9, 2019 .