Sipke Ernst (born 8 January 1979), is a Dutch
chess
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Grandmaster,
Dutch Chess Championship medalist, and
FIDE Trainer.
Biography
In the 2000s, Sipke Ernst was one of the leading Dutch chess players. He won four medals in the
Dutch Chess Championship: a silver medal in 2017, and three bronze medals in 2010, 2011, and 2014, respectively. Ernst has won many international chess tournaments, including
Lichfield
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in 2000 and ''Schaakfestival'' in
Groningen
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in 2001, 2005, and 2006.
Ernst played for the Netherlands in the
Chess Olympiad in 2002, at the second reserve board in the
35th Chess Olympiad in
Bled
Bled (; german: Veldes,''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 146. in older sources also ''Feldes'') is a town on Lake Bled in the Upper ...
(+0, =1, -0).
Ernst additionally played for the Netherlands in the
European Team Chess Championship in 2009, at the reserve board in the 17th European Team Chess Championship in
Novi Sad
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(+2, =2, -1).
In 1999, he was awarded the
International Master
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title and received the
Grandmaster title in 2007. In 2018, he became a FIDE Trainer.
References
External links
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Sipke Ernstchess games at 365chess.com
1979 births
Living people
People from Dantumadiel
Dutch chess players
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Sportspeople from Friesland
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