Zigurd's Lanka
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| Zigurds Lanka, 2008 |
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 Latvia
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| Born | May 21, 1960 Baldone , Soviet Union |
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International Master (1987) Grand Master (1992) |
| Current Elo rating | 2391 (August 2020) |
| Best Elo rating | 2575 (January 1997) |
| Tab at the FIDE (English) | |
Zigurds Lanka (born May 21, 1960 in Baldone ) is a Latvian chess player and coach. His chess students include Falko Bindrich , Alexei Schirow , Evgenija Shmirina and Maria Schöne .
Life
Lanka was already active in Baldone during his school days. In 1975 and 1976 he was Latvian youth champion, in 1978 third in the Soviet youth championship. From 1978 to 1983 he completed a degree in journalism at the University of Latvia . Until 1987 he wrote as an editor for the chess magazine Šahs / Шахматы . Between 1988 and 1990 he trained as a chess coach in Moscow .
In 1993 and 2020, Lanka won the Latvian Individual Championship in Riga . With the Latvian national team he took part in three chess Olympiads : 1992 in Manila , 1994 in Moscow and 2008 in Dresden with a total of 16.5 points from 30 games (+9 = 15 −6). He also played at the team world championships in 1993 in Lucerne and the European team championships in 1992 in Debrecen , 1997 in Pula and 1999 in Batumi . In 2009 he became champion of the Rhineland-Palatinate Chess Federation , in 2010 he was just as successful.
He played club chess in Soviet, German (for Post SV Dresden , Dresdner SC , TSV Schott Mainz and SC Viernheim ), Croatian, Austrian (for SK Mayrhofen / Zillertal ), French and Czech (for ŠK DP Holdia Prague , with whom he became Czech team champion in 2001 , the ŠK Sokol Kolín - ABNER and BŠŠ Frýdek-Místek ) team championships. He took part in the European Club Cup three times . He received the title of International Master in 1987 and has been a Grand Master since 1992 .
In February 2015, he was twelfth in the Latvian Elo ranking. He had his highest rating with 2575 in January 1997; he was then behind Edvīns Ķeņģis second in the Latvian rankings.
Zigurds Lanka is married to the former high jumper Nina Serbina .
Web links
- Playable chess games from Zigurds Lanka on 365Chess.com (English)
- Curriculum vitae ( memento from February 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on baldone.lv (Latvian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zigurds Lankas results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Zigurds Lankas results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Zigurds Lankas results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ 2nd Rhineland-Palatinate Open 2010 , a fourth place overall, as the best player registered in Rhineland-Palatinate, Lanka became the Rhineland-Palatinate champion.
- ↑ Zigurds Lankas results in the Czech Extraliga on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Zigurds Lankas results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
- ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 81
- ↑ Thomas Pfeiffer: Chess nomads on a European tour . In: The Teckbote . February 13, 2016
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lanka, Zigurds |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lanka, Zigurd F. (FIDE 1990 to 1991) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian chess player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baldons |