Hannes Stefánsson

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Hannes.

Hannes Stefansson
Hannes Stefansson, 2008
Full name	Hannes Hlífar Stefánsson
Country	Iceland
Born	(1972-07-18) 18 July 1972 (age 52) Reykjavík, Iceland
Title	Grandmaster (1993)
FIDE rating	2457 (December 2024)
Peak rating	2604 (January 2002)
Peak ranking	No. 83 (January 2002)

Hannes Hlífar Stefánsson (born 18 July 1972) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster. He has won the Icelandic Chess Championship a record thirteen times.

Chess career

Born in 1972, Hannes won the World U16 Chess Championship in 1987. He won the Acropolis International in 1993^[1] He tied for first to third in the Reykjavik open in 1994, together with Pigusov and Zvjagintsev and tied for 1st–4th with Hedinn Steingrimsson, Yuriy Kryvoruchko and Mihail Marin in the Reykjavik Open tournament 2009.^[2] He won the International chess tournament Open Teplice 2015 in the Czech Republic.^[3] He is the No. 1 ranked Icelandic player as of September 2023.^[update][4]

References

1. "Ilya Smirin wins Acropolis 2007". ChessBase News. 26 August 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-10.
2. "Reykjavik Open 2009 – chess in geothermal splendor". ChessBase. 2009-04-13. Retrieved 14 May 2010.
3. "Winner GM Hannes Stefansson". International chess tournament Open Teplice. Archived from the original on 2015-07-03.
4. "Federations Ranking – Iceland". FIDE. Retrieved 2023-09-09.

External links

• Hannes Stefansson player profile and games at Chessgames.com