Jan Gustafsson

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Jan Gustafsson

Jan Gustafsson, 2007
Country Germany
Born (1979-06-25) June 25, 1979
Hamburg, West Germany
Title Grandmaster (2003)
FIDE rating 2626 (December 2016)
Peak rating 2652[1]

Jan Gustafsson (born June 25, 1979) is a German chess grandmaster.

Biography

Born in Hamburg, West Germany, Gustafsson began playing chess at a young age. He soon became successful and won the U13 German team championship in 1992. Two years later he won the U15 German championship, and in 1996 both the U17 individual championship and the U20 team championship.[2] He has played in the Chess Bundesliga since 1997.

He earned his IM title in 1999, and his GM title in 2003. He was nominated to the German national team in 2002, and in 2004 he represented Germany in the 2004 Chess Olympiad. Gustafsson is one of the strongest German chess players, and finished second in the 2004 and 2005 German championships.[3][4] He is also considered a very strong blitz chess player, and won the German blitz championship in 2001.[5] In 2011 he tied for 1st-3rd with Nigel Short and Francisco Vallejo Pons in the Thailand Open in Pattaya and won the event on tie-break.[6] His highest Elo rating is 2652, which he sustained from November 2010 until January 2011.[1]

Gustafsson is involved in Chess24.com project, in which he makes video analyses of notable chess games, and has been named by the chess historian Edward Winter as one of the top five Internet chess broadcasters.[7][8] He is also a poker player, and has written a book on poker together with Dutch professional poker player Marcel Lüske.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 FIDE, Chess rating progress chart: Gustafsson, Jan Archived June 24, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ 2. Internationale Fränkische Grossmeistertage (German)
  3. ↑ Deutsche Meisterschaft 2004 (German)
  4. ↑ Deutsche Meisterschaft 2005 (German)
  5. ↑ 28. Deutsche Blitz-Einzelmeisterschaft 2001 (German)
  6. ↑ "Thai Open: Gustafsson ahead of Vallejo and Short on tiebreak". Chess News. Chessbase GmbH. April 17, 2011. Retrieved 2015-03-05.
  7. ↑ "Jan Gustafsson player profile". Chess24.com. Retrieved 2015-03-05.
  8. ↑ Winter, Edward. "9085. Live chess broadcasts on the Internet". Chess Notes.
  9. ↑ Poker für Gewinner der systematische Weg zum Erfolg im Limit Texas Holdem
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