Nikolaus Stanec (born 29 April 1968,

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) is an

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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 (2003). He won the

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ten times in the period 1995–2005. He also represented Austria in the

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of 1994 and 1996, and in the

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at Pula 1997. In 2019, he won the 2nd Vienna Christmas Open with 6/7 points. Awarded the

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title in 1991, and the Grandmaster title in 2003.

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