MÄris Krakops
Māris Krakops ( born April 3, 1978) is a Latvian chess player.
Life
Māris Krakops graduated in law at the University of Latvia in Riga. After graduating, he worked in a law firm as bankruptcy consultants. In 2001, he began as an assistant to a corporate lawyer at Linstow Center Management, a group based in Riga, which manages shopping centers in Latvia and Norway. In 2003 he became head of the legal department.
Achievements
As a 12 -year-old he took in 1990 at the last Soviet U20 Championship part. In the U14 World Cup in 1994 in Szeged was Māris Krakops behind Péter Lékó and before Rustam Kasimjanov second. In 1998 he won in Riga, the Latvian individual championship in a final against Juzefs Petkevičs. The Troll Masters in Gausdal he won in 2000 in the tiebreaker before Igor Rausis.
With the Latvian national team, he participated in the Chess Olympiads of 1998, 2000 and 2002, in part with a positive total return of 14.5 points from 24 games, as well as to the European Team Championships in 1997, 1999 and 2001, where he in 2001 in León an individual silver medal for his score of 5, 5 points from 8 games won on the third board. He succeeded in attaining this victory against, among others, Stuart Conquest and Ján Markos. At the European Club Cup 1997 in Kazan, he took part with Baltika Liepāja. Chess club in Germany, he played the end of the 1990s for the chess community Enger - Spengemann.
1994 Māris Krakops received the title of International Master and since 1998 he is the Grand Master. His Elo rating is 2510 (as of January 2011), but he is regarded as inactive ( since 2003, he has only three -evaluated chess games played); the highest Elo rating was 2530, which he had in the years 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2003.