Sebastian Bogner (born 17 January 1991) is a German-Swiss

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 represented Germany until transferring to Switzerland in 2013. He won the

Swiss Chess Championship The Swiss Chess Championship is held annually during two weeks of July. It is organised by the Swiss Chess Federation (the SSB), which has been a member of the overall governing body, Swiss Olympic, since 2000. The SSB is itself a relatively new org ...

in 2018.

Chess career

Born in 1991, Bogner earned his

international master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

title in 2005 and his grandmaster title in 2009. He competed for Germany at the

39th Chess Olympiad The 39th Chess Olympiad (russian: 39-я Шахматная олимпиада, ''39-ya Shakhmatnaya olimpiada''), organised by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of ch ...

. He transferred to Switzerland in 2013. He competed for Switzerland at the

42nd Chess Olympiad The 42nd Chess Olympiad ( az, 42-ci Şahmat Olimpiadası; also known as the Baku Chess Olympiad), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an openAlthough sometimes referred to as the "men's division", this ...

. In March 2018, he competed in the

European Individual Chess Championship The European Individual Chess Championship is a chess tournament organised by the European Chess Union. It was established in 2000 and has since then taken place on a yearly basis. Apart from determining the European champions (open and women's), ...

. He placed sixty-eighth, scoring 6½/11 (+4–2=5). He won the

in July 2018. He is the No. 2 ranked Swiss player as of July 2021, with a rating of 2581, behind only

Vadim Milov Vadim Milov (born 1 August 1972) is a Swiss chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1993. Early life Born in Ufa, following the collapse of the USSR, he moved to Israel in 1992, before finally settling in Switzerland in ...

. In July 2021, Bogner competed in the

FIDE World Cup The FIDE World Cup refers to three different events over the years. Since 2000, it has been a major chess event organized by FIDE, the International Chess Federation. Since 2005, it has been a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, formi ...

, and was eliminated in the first round by Indian grandmaster P. Iniyan.

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* * 1991 births Living people Chess grandmasters German chess players Swiss chess players Sportspeople from Pforzheim {{Switzerland-chess-bio-stub