Sampsa Nyysti

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Sampsa Nyysti (born September 21, 1978 ) is a Finnish chess player .

Life

Sampsa Nyysti comes from Jurva in western Finland and lives in Helsinki . Besides chess, he also plays poker .

successes

Sampsa Nyysti took bronze twice at the Finnish individual championships : in Helsinki in 2002 and 2011 and once he was second: in 2015 behind Mikael Agopov in Kalajoki . Nyysti played for the Finnish national team at the 2002 and 2006 Chess Olympiads . as well as the European Team Championships 2005, 2011 and 2015.

In club chess he took part in the European Club Cup six times : in 2000 and 2002 with Taraus Tampere , in 2003 with Joensuun SK and in 2012, 2013 and 2014 with Shakkivelhot Porvoo . In the 2001/02 season of the Finnish league he had the best result of all players with 8.5 points from 9 games. In the team championship of Estonia he plays for the team Panomiehet from Soome near Antsla .

Since November 2002 he has held the title of International Master . An IM norm, he scored for example, a first-Saturday IM tournament of Category II in Budapest in October 2000, which he won. He achieved the norms for obtaining the grandmaster title at the Chess Olympiad in Bled in November 2002 , where he won against grandmasters Dražen Sermek and Walter Arencibia , among others , and in his third place at the 15th Heart of Finland tournament in Jyväskylä in July 2005.

The Elo rating of Sampsa Nyystis is 2333 (as of December 2019), its highest to date was 2445 in January 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sampsa Nyysi at Chess DB (English)
  2. ↑ Chess Olympiads Sampsa Nyystis on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Team European Championships Sampsa Nyystis on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ European Club Cups Sampsa Nyystis on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Finnish Team Championships in The Week in Chess # 384 of March 18, 2002 (English)
  6. ↑ Award of FIDE titles at the 73rd FIDE Congress in Bled on November 20, 2002 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Nyysti, Sampsa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish chess player
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1978