Hans Tikkanen
Hans Christian Tikkanen (born 6 February 1985 in Karlstad ) is a Swedish chess player. It is Sweden's 20th Chess Grandmaster.
Life
Hans Tikkanen is the son of the International FIDE arbiter Tapio Tikkanen (* 1947). His club is the southern Swedish Lunds ASK. With the Lunds ASK, he won the Swedish championship team in the season 2010/11. In the Icelandic Team Championship, he played in the 2009/10 season for Haukar in Norway in the 2011/12 season for Kristiansund. Since the 2011/12 season he plays in the German Bundesliga chess at Hansa Dortmund.
Achievements
Tournaments
In 2002 he won the Swedish U20 Championship in Skara. In 2011 he won the Fynsmesterskabet in Odense and shared with Wesley So and Anish Giri first place in the Sigeman & Co tournament in Malmö.
In July 2011 he won in Västerås with 6.5 points from 9 games, the Swedish national championship in front of Jonny Hector and Pia Cramling. In July 2012, in Falun Tikkanen was national champion again after he was able to win in a playoff against Bengt Lindberg, Axel Smith and Emanuel Berg. The title he defended in July 2013 in Örebro down fight against Nils Gran Delius.
Title and rating
After six IM norms he received in November 2007, the title of International Master. The standards he scored the Czech Open in Pardubice in July 2003, in which he defeated Pavel Blatný, at the Junior World Championship in December 2004 in Kochi, India, among others, a win against Jan Smeets, at the European Team Championships 2005 in Gothenburg ( with over-compliance ), where he played for Sweden 3 and, among other things won against Jonny Hector, in the Swedish first league (Elitserien) in the 2006/07 season, the 36th Rilton Cup in Stockholm in January 2007, and in the B- group of the Grandmaster tournament in Olomouc in August 2007.
Grand Master he is since October 2010, the necessary standards, he scored between 31 July and the September 12, 2010 within six weeks -. , The first with his second place behind Anton Korobov at the Czech Open in Pardubice with overachievement, the second at the Cup the Aleksandra - Stulginskis University in Kaunas ( also with over-fulfillment ), which he won, and the third at the tournament XtraCon 5 in Borup at Køge with victories. against Tiger Hillarp Persson, among others, and Kaido Külaots
His Elo rating is 2573 (as of July 2012), he is so behind Evgeny Agrest and Tiger Hillarp Persson on the third place of the Swedish Elo ranking. The previous highest Elo rating was 2596 Hans Tikkanens in July 2011.