Ľubomír Ftáčnik

Lubomir Ftáčnik ( born October 30, 1957 in Bratislava) is a Slovak chess master.

Ftáčnik learned chess only 13 years old, yet he achieved numerous successes as a youth In 1977, he won the European Youth Championships in Groningen and in the same year came second in the World Junior Championship. In this year he became an International Master. 1980 FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title.

In the 1980s, he had his most successful phase. He won tournaments in Cienfuegos in 1980, Esbjerg 1982, Trnava and Travemünde 1983 Altensteig 1987, the Baden -Baden Open 1987. Dortmund Chess In the days of 1981, he finished third, level on points with the winner Henadij Kuzmin and Jonathan Speelman. He also won in Sydney in 1991, Neuchâtel 1996, Forio on the island of Ischia in 1996, Hamburg 1998, Los Angeles 1999 ( shared with Tony Miles, Alexander Beliavsky and Suat Atalik ), Gold Coast 2000. 2001, he was tied second behind Konstantin Landa in Deizisau. He won the 2002 Slovak Cup and four times (1981, 1982, 1983 and 1985 ) the championship of Czechoslovakia. He is a prolific commentator employees and ChessBase. His current Elo rating is 2543 (as of March 2014). He is thus the third Slovak Elo ranking. By July 2003, he was among the top 100 in the world.

Chess team

National

Ftáčnik took out the CSSR in seven Chess Olympiads. At the Chess Olympiad 1982 in Lucerne, he won with his native silver. He then played nine times for Slovakia. Ftáčnik participated in five European Team Championships, where he Skara the best individual result reached in 1980 on the sixth board.

Chess club

Ftáčnik plays since 1989 in the chess Bundesliga, first to 1991 for the Munich SC 1836, since the 1992/93 season for the Hamburger SK. Of the 312 league competitions, the disputed since the 1992/93 season the Hamburg SK, Ftáčnik has only four failed ( status: According to the 2012/13 season). In the Austrian Bundesliga 1 ( to 2003 State League A ) Ftáčnik played in the season 1996/ 97 for the SG Pinggau -Friedberg, from 2000 to 2002 for Union Raika Gamlitz, from 2003 to 2008 for Union Ansfelden, with whom he 2005 and 2007 Austrian team champion was, and in the 2008/ 09 season for ASVÖ Pamhagen. In the Dutch Meesterklasse Ftáčnik comes in Rotterdam since 1997 occasionally used the British Four Nations Chess League he won in 2000 with Slough, where he played from 1999 to 2001.

Private

Ftáčnik is the brother of the politician Milan Ftáčnik that by 2002 a ministerial post in Slovakia occupied in 1998 and is since 2010 the mayor of Bratislava. His twin, Jan is a physicist at the Comenius University in Bratislava.