Vilka Sipilä

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Vilka Sipilä 2013.jpg
Vilka Sipilä, Warsaw 2013
Association FinlandFinland Finland
Born December 13, 1987
title International Master (2012)
Current  Elo rating 2402 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2474 (August 2013)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Vilka Sipilä (born December 13, 1987 ) is a Finnish chess player .

Life

The Turku native Vilka Sipilä started playing chess at the age of ten.

successes

At the Finnish individual championship in Helsinki in 2010 he finished second behind Mika Karttunen , and he won the Finnish individual championship in 2012 there. Also in 2012 he won the Finnish championship in rapid chess in Mänttä-Vilppula with 6.5 points from 7 games. At the Rilton Cup 2012/13 in Stockholm , which Michał Krasenkow won, Vilka Sipilä was fifth with 6.5 points from 9 games and secured a norm for the grandmaster title with an Elo rating of 2679 . He achieved another grandmaster norm in June 2014 at the Visma tournament in Växjö , Sweden , where he won against Henrik Danielsen , among others . In 2016 he won the Finnish championship for the second time.

For the Finnish national team he played at the Chess Olympiads 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk (on the reserve board), 2012 in Istanbul (on the fourth board) and 2014 (also on the fourth board) in Tromsø with a positive overall result of 14 points from 27 games (+12 = 4 −11). He also played for Finland at the 2013 European Team Championship in Warsaw on the second board. He played club chess for the TuTS team from Turku.

Since September 2012 he has held the title of International Master . He achieved the standards for this in the Finnish team championship of the 2011/12 season with overachievement (he defeated, among others, the grandmasters Normunds Miezis and Maxim Nowik and played a draw against the grandmasters Yevgeny Soloshenkin and Robert Hübner ), when he won the Finnish individual championship in 2012 (also with overachievement) and in group A of the Open de Sants in Barcelona in August 2012.

In February 2015 he is in seventh place in the Finnish Elo ranking.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michal Krasenkow wins the Rilton Cup . Article by Alina l'Ami from January 8, 2013 on chessbase.de
  2. ↑ Vilka Sipiläs results at chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Vilka Sipiläs results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ IM application (English)
personal data
SURNAME Sipilä, Vilka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sipila, Vilka (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish chess player
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1987