Mark Lapidus (born 27 December 1995) is an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

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 ...

player who won the

Estonian Chess Championship The Estonian Chess Championship is played to determine the Estonian champion in chess. The first unofficial championship in Estonia was held in 1903 and was organized by a chess club from Tallinn (then Reval, Russian Empire). After World War I, ...

in 2012.

Chess career

Mark Lapidus won the Estonian Junior Chess Championships (U16) in 2009 and 2011. From 2004 he participated in the European Junior Chess Championships and the World Junior Chess Championships in different age groups. He won an IM norm at the World Junior Championship (2012). In the Estonian Chess Championship Mark Lapidus has won gold medal (2012). Mark Lapidus played for Estonia in

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and ...

s:Men's Chess Olympiads :: Mark Lapidus
/ref> * In 2012, at second board in the

40th Chess Olympiad The 40th Chess Olympiad ( tr, 40. Satranç Olimpiyatı), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place in Istan ...

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(+2, =2, -4).

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lapidus, Mark 1995 births Living people Estonian chess players Chess Olympiad competitors Sportspeople from Tallinn