Luc Winants

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Luc Winants (born January 1, 1963 in Watermael-Boitsfort near Brussels ) is a Belgian chess player .

Life

Luc Winants is the son of Henri Winants (1929-2014), who won the Belgian individual championship in 1975 together with Johan Goormachtigh and José Tonoli .

successes

In 1986 he became an International Master of FIDE . He achieved the standards for this at the 1984 Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki , in Ostend and at the Belgian individual championship in 1986. In 1998, he became a grandmaster according to standards in Ostend, Wijk aan Zee ( Hoogovens B tournament ) and Barcelona . From his own appointment as grandmaster to Bart Michiels ' awarding the title in April 2014, Winants was the only living grandmaster born in Belgium. In Belgium he is known for the queen pawn game 1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 .

In 1986 he became Belgian individual champion in Anderlecht with a result of 10 out of 12. He took part in eight Chess Olympiads with the Belgian national team (1984 on the first reserve board, 1986 , 1988 , 2002 , 2004 and 2006 on the top board, 2012 on the second board and again in 2014 on the first board). In his first participation in a chess Olympiad in 1984 in Thessaloniki, he remained unbeaten as well as in 2004 in Calvià . This was only the second time that the first board of the Belgian national team did not lose a game at a chess Olympiad after Albéric O'Kelly de Galway at the 1956 Chess Olympiad in Moscow . With Belgium Winants also took part in the European Team Championships in 1989 and 2007.

Further tournament successes:

  • Dordrecht 1988: 2-4. space
  • Barcelona Vulca 1991: 1st place

With the Slough Chess Club he won the British Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) in the 1998/99 season . In Luxembourg he played for the CE Le Cavalier Differdange , in Belgium earlier for Anderlecht , with whom he reached the semifinals of the European Club Cup in 1986 , before 2001 for the KSK Rochade Eupen-Kelmis , with which he took part in the European Club Cup three times until 2006 for Cercle Royal de Liege , with whom he also took part in the European Club Cup three times, from 2006 to 2008 for Cercle des Echecs de Charleroi , from 2008 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2016 for Schachfreunde Wirtzfeld (with whom he played in 2009 and In 2013 he won the Belgian team championship, and in the 2008/09 season he simultaneously achieved the best individual result in the league with 7.5 points from 9 games and took part in the European Club Cup 2013), from 2010 to 2012 for Ans , with whom he in 2011 participated in the European Club Cup and in the 2018/19 season for the Club d'échecs de Watermael-Boitsfort . In the Netherlands, Winants played for Rotterdam for decades and for En Passant Bunschoten-Spakenburg since the 2013/14 season . In his first season at Bunschoten-Spakenburg , he won the Dutch team championship. In France he played for L'Echiquier Cappellois from Cappelle la Grande and in Germany for SC Bann .

His Elo rating is 2506 (as of February 2020), making him third in the Belgian Elo ranking, behind Michail Gurewitsch and Bart Michiels, which Winants had topped in 2016. In November 2015, he achieved his highest rating to date of 2571.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luc Winants' results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Luc Winants' results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d e Luc Winants' results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Winants, Luc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Watermael-Boitsfort