Kjetil Aleksander Lie

Kjetil Aleksander Lie ( born November 18, 1980 in Porsgrunn ) is a Norwegian chess player.

As the eighth Norwegian, who was Grand Master, he is playing for the Porsgrunn Sjakklubb in the southern Telemark, Norway's first grandmaster, who does not come from the Oslo area.

Lie began to play chess at age eight. In 1994 he was the Norwegian U15 champion. 2000 and 2006 he won the Open Norwegian Championship. In October 2006, he won the Masters in Tiger Hillarp Persson Gausdal before. For the Norwegian national team, he took between 2000 and 2008 at five Chess Olympiads ( 24, = 16, -14 ) and at the European Team Championships in 2005 and 2007 ( 7 = 4, -7 ). The Norwegian Individual Championship he won in Bergen 2009.

He became an International Master in 2002. Grandmaster standards he reached in the Norwegian team championship 2003/2004, as well as the policies Cup in Copenhagen in 2004 and in January 2005 at the Smartfish Chess Masters in Drammen (as in the short term due to illness for Simen Agdestein eingesprungener substitute and the only non -GM); the required Elo rating of 2500 he had not yet reached. End of February 2005, he played a local tournament in Porsgrunn. Since he won the first two rounds and had thus preliminary Elo evaluation reaches a Elo rating of 2500.5, ensured him the Grandmaster title even if he had lost three Elo points at the end of the tournament.

At the World Championship Candidates Tournament in 2007 in Elista he seconded Magnus Carlsen.

Lie is regarded as self-sacrificing chess player.

His current Elo rating is 2547 (as of January 2010), he is so on the fourth place in the Norwegian Elo ranking. His previous highest Elo rating was 2563 in October 2007.

His younger brother Espen ( born 1984 ) is a strong chess player, International Master with a highest Elo rating of 2462 since September 2009.