Curt Hansen (born September 18, 1964, in Bov,

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) is a Danish

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grandmaster and a former World Junior Champion. He is a six-time Danish Champion.

Chess career

A strong junior player, Hansen had major successes in international youth competitions, commencing with the then

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-based

European Junior Chess Championship The first chess youth championship in Europe was the yearly European Junior Championship for under age 20. It was played from 1971–2002. FIDE officially introduced the European Junior Championship in 1970 at their Annual Congress and so the 19 ...

, where he finished first in 1982 and second in 1983. The next year, he became the World Junior Champion in Kiljava, ahead of

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and beating the defending champion

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, and was awarded the

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title. In 1985, he became a Grandmaster after earning the necessary

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s. In domestic chess, he succeeded

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as Denmark's strongest player and between 1983 and 2000 won the Danish Championship six times. By 1992, his rating had reached 2600 and later the same year rose to 2635, giving him his best ever ranking, tied for 14th place on the

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list. Hansen has represented his country five times at the

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between 1984 and 2000, always playing and always scoring in excess of 50%. He was twice shared winner at the traditional Sigeman & Co. tournament in

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, in 1994 (with

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) and in 2004 (with

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), ahead of

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and

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. His list of international tournament successes also includes outright or shared first places at

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1984, Vejstrup 1989 (ahead of Ian Rogers, including all three Polgar sisters in a round robin of ten players), Groningen 1991,

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1992,

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1994,

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1994, and

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Zonal 1995. As of November 2009, Hansen had an

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of 2619, making him Denmark's second-ranking player, although he has rarely played since 2006.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hansen, Curt 1964 births Living people People from Aabenraa Municipality Chess grandmasters Chess double grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Danish chess players World Junior Chess Champions