Léon Mons


Léon Mons, Vienna 2015
Association	Germany Germany
Born	September 10, 1995 Lübeck
title	International Master (2014) Grand Master (2018)
Current Elo rating	2530 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2559 (May 2019)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Léon Mons (born September 10, 1995 in Lübeck ) is a German chess grandmaster .

Léon Mons learned to play chess from his father, who was also a club player. As a teenager he trained regularly with the grandmaster Michael Prusikin . Since March 2019, he has been a research assistant at the University of Salzburg as a doctoral student in mathematics .

In the 2012/13 season of the German Chess League , his win against Arkadij Naiditsch was voted the best game of the season on schachbundesliga.de.

title

2012: FIDE Champion
August 2014: International Master
April 2018: Grand Master

societies

in Germany:
- 2004–2014 SC Forchheim (2nd and 1st Bundesliga )
- 2014–2015 SC Eppingen . 1st National League
- 2015-2016 SC Hansa Dortmund . 1st National League
- since 2016: MSA Zugzwang München 82 (1st Bundesliga, season 2016/17, season 2017/2018, season 2018/2019 )

in Austria:
- since 2011: SIR Royal Salzburg (2nd and 1st Bundesliga (season 2011/12, 2013 to 2016, 2017 to 2019))

Web links

Commons : Léon Mons - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

^ Richard Saathoff: Léon Mons - soon to be GM. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
↑ Not a prince, but almost a king - Interview with IM Léon Mons. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
^ The game of the 2012/13 season , Schachbundesliga.de, September 11, 2013
↑ Leon Mons and Julian Martin get GM norms at the Sants Open in Barcelona . In: Chess News . August 29, 2017 ( chessbase.com [accessed May 6, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Mons, Leon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH	September 10, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck

[1] Richard Saathoff: Léon Mons - soon to be GM. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .

[2] Not a prince, but almost a king - Interview with IM Léon Mons. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .

[3] The game of the 2012/13 season , Schachbundesliga.de, September 11, 2013

[4] Leon Mons and Julian Martin get GM norms at the Sants Open in Barcelona . In: Chess News . August 29, 2017 ( chessbase.com [accessed May 6, 2018]).