Hannes Hlífar Stefánsson (born 18 July 1972) is an Icelandic

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

grandmaster. He has won the

Icelandic Chess Championship The Icelandic Chess Championship is usually held in Reykjavík. It is organised by the Icelandic Chess Federation (ICF), the body responsible for holding national chess events and for representing Icelandic chess at the World Chess Federation ( FIDE ...

thirteen times, which makes him the record holder for most Icelandic Championship victories.

Chess career

Born in 1972, Hannes won the World U16 Chess Championship in 1987. He won the Acropolis International in 1993 He tied for first to third in the Reykjavik open in 1994, together with Pigusov and Zvjagintsev and tied for 1st–4th with Hedinn Steingrimsson,

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and

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in the

Reykjavik Open The Reykjavik Open is an annual chess tournament that takes place in the capital city of Iceland. It was held every two years up to 2008, currently it runs annually. The first edition was held in 1964 and was won by Mikhail Tal with a score of 12.5 ...

tournament 2009. He won the International chess tournament Open

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2015 in the Czech Republic. He is the No. 2 ranked Icelandic player as of September 2020.

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* 1972 births Living people Hannes Stefansson Chess grandmasters World Youth Chess Champions {{Iceland-chess-bio-stub