Pontus Carlsson

This article deals with the chess player Pontus Carlsson; on the football player, see Pontus Karlsson .

Pontus Carlsson at the 2011 European Team
Association	Sweden
Born	December 18, 1982 Cali , Colombia
title	International Master (2005) Grand Master (2007)
Current  Elo rating	2473 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2531 (May 2012)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Pontus Erik Sergio Carlsson (born December 18, 1982 in Cali , Colombia ) is a Swedish chess player .

Life

When Carlsson was one year old, his entire Colombian family was killed. He was adopted by a Swedish couple. When he was four years old, his adoptive father Ingvar (who holds the title of correspondence chess grandmaster ) taught him to play chess.

Pontus Carlsson has held the title of International Master since August 2005 . For this purpose, it met five standards between June 2001 and July 2005. He has been a grandmaster since June 2007. He fulfilled the required standards at the European Team Championships 2005 in Gothenburg , in August 2006 at the 7 Ciutat Tarragona , in February 2007 at the II Ciutat de Sóller and in April 2007 at the Sigeman tournament in Malmö .

National team

With the Swedish national team he took part in the Chess Olympiads 2006 in Turin , 2008 in Dresden and 2012 in Istanbul . He also played at the European Team Championships in Gothenburg in 2005 (in the second team), in Heraklion in 2007 , in Porto Carras in 2011 and in Warsaw in 2013 , where he received an individual bronze medal in 2007 for his result of 6 points from 9 games as reserve player.

societies

He played club chess in Sweden for Linköping ASS , from 1999 to 2013 for Sollentuna SK (since 2009 Team Viking ), with whom he won the Swedish team championship several times ( 1999/2000 , 2001/02 , 2002/03 , 2005/06 , 2006 / 07 , 2009/10 and 2011/12 ) and in the European Club Cups 2002, 2005 and 2007. From 2013 to 2017 he played for Eksjö SK and in the 2017/18 season for champions Malmö AS . Outside of the Swedish first division, he has played in clubs in Spanish and Catalan leagues as well as in Iceland; in the Czech extra league he played for ŠK ERA Poštovní spořitelna in the 2013/14 season and for ŠK Dopravní podnik Praha in the 2019/20 season .

Web links

Commons : Pontus Carlsson  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Pontus Carlsson on chessgames.com (English)
• Portrait on The Chess Drum from November 24, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)
2. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
3. ↑ Pontus Carlsson's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Pontus Carlssons results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Pontus Carlsson's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)