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Rune Djurhuus NM Hamar 2007.jpg
Rune Djurhuus, Hamar 2007
Association NorwayNorway Norway
Born January 25, 1970
Elverum , Norway
title International Master (1989)
Grand Master (1996)
Current  Elo rating 2430 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2530 (January 1997)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Rune Djurhuus (born January 25, 1970 in Elverum ) is a Norwegian chess player .

Life

The family name Djurhuus comes from the Faroe Islands . Rune Djurhuus is related to Hans Andrias Djurhuus and Janus Djurhuus . He learned to play chess at the age of six to seven. In 1980 he registered with the Elverum Sjakklub , in 1991 with the Akademisk Sjakklubb of the University of Oslo , where he studied computer science. He lives in Oslo and has a son and a daughter. Djurhuus regularly writes chess columns for the Oslo daily Aftenposten and the Trondheim daily Adresseavisen .

Chess successes

In 1985 he became Norwegian junior champion, at the turn of the year 1990/91 he became European youth champion U20 in Arnhem , ahead of Wladimir Kramnik and Loek van Wely . In 1990 and 1992 he became the Norwegian master of blitz chess . He won the Troll Masters in Gausdal at the turn of the year 1993/94 ( category 9). In 2004 he won the Barent Championship in Alta .

Since 1989 he has the title International Master , Grand Master , he was in 1996, after a grandmaster norm at the Chess Olympiad in 1992 in Manila and two standards at Troll Masters in Gausdal 1994/95 and 1995/96. He is also an international champion in correspondence chess . He received this title in 1994. At the Norwegian individual championship in local chess he came second four times (1990, 1994, 2000 and 2003) and third five times (1988, 1995, 1996, 1998 and 1999), but has never won it.

In January 2015 Djurhuus was ranked 14th on the Norwegian Elo list.

National team

Djurhuus took part with Norway in the Chess Olympiads in 1988 , 1990 , 1992 , 1994 , 1996 , 2006 and 2014 (in the third team) as well as the European team championship in 1989, in which he achieved the best individual result on the sixth board.

societies

In the Norwegian Eliteserien Djurhuus played for the Akademisk Sjakklubb Oslo until 2013 , in the 2014/15 season he played for the Nordstrand Sjakklubb , for which he competes again in the 2016/17 season. In the Swedish Elitserien he played from 1999 to 2009 for the Skara Schacksällskap .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norwegian surprised in Arnhem . JugendSchach issue 1/1991, pp. 11–13 (report, table and games)
  2. ↑ List of Norwegian champions from 1918 to 2002 (Norwegian)
  3. ↑ Rune Djurhuus' results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Rune Djurhuus' results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Djurhuus, rune
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Elverum