Hjörvar Steinn Grétarsson
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Hjörvar Steinn Grétarsson
OR:
Hjörvar Steinn Grétarsson on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Hjörvar Steinn Grétarsson (born 29 May 1993) is an Icelandic
chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...
grandmaster. As of January 2025, he is the second best-ranked Icelandic player in the world.


Chess career

Born in 1993, Hjörvar earned his
FIDE 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 2011, followed by 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 2012, and Grandmaster title in 2013. He has represented Iceland at the
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 FIDE Onli ...
six times - in
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
,
2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
,
2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
,
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
,
2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
, and
2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
. Grétarsson received a wild card from the Icelandic Chess Federation to compete in the
FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022 The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022 (WFRCC) was the second official World Chess960 Championship , world championship in Fischer Random Chess (also known as Chess960). The competition followed a similar format to the FIDE World ...
.


References


External links

* * 1993 births Living people Chess Grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson {{Iceland-chess-bio-stub