Tiger Hillarp Persson

Tiger Hillarp Persson
Full name Tiger Christopher Robin Hillarp-Persson
Country  Sweden
Born (1970-10-28) 28 October 1970
Malmö, Sweden
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2511 (December 2016)
Peak rating 2618 (April 2009)

Tiger Christopher Robin Hillarp-Persson[1][2] (born 28 October 1970) is a Swedish chess Grandmaster.

He won tournaments in Gentofte (VISA Nordic Grand Prix), ahead of Sune Berg Hansen, Simen Agdestein, Einar Gausel, Helgi Grétarsson, Heikki Westerinen and others, York in 1999, Jersey (2000), Barcelona Sants 2003 and The Guernsey International Open (2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010). He finished second in the Nordic Chess Championship in Vammala, Finland (2005). In 2008 he was the winner of the Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in his hometown of Malmö with an impressive 7½ points. He has won the Swedish Chess Championship twice, in 2007 and 2008. In 2009 he finished second in the C group of the Corus Chess Tournament. Representing Sweden, he scored individual bronze medals in the Chess Olympiad in Elista, 1998 and in Dresden 2008.

In 2015 he also attained the level of 1-Dan in the game of Go.[3]

Books

Notable games

References

  1. ↑ "2008 Gibraltar Chess Festival - Who's Who". Gibraltar Chess Festival. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Youngest Player Rapport Wins In Ancient Place - Chess.com". 2015-12-01. Archived from the original on December 1, 2015. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
  3. ↑ http://www.usgo.org/news/2015/03/chess-grandmaster-tiger-hillarp-achieves-shodan


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