Jan Gustafsson

Grand Master (2003)

January Gustafsson ( born June 25, 1979 in Hamburg ) is a German grandmaster in chess.

January Gustafsson has its roots chess at Hamburger SK. Already as a teenager he had made ​​a success at the German level, he won the 1992 the German team championship in the age group U13, 1994 in Bad Bevensen the German Championship in the age group U15 and 1996 both the individual championship in the age group U17 and the team championship in the age group U20. Since 1997 he has been a regular in the first Bundesliga. In 1999, he began studying law, he has still not complete. In the same year he was appointed by the FIDE International Master for 2003 Grand Master. January Gustafsson is one of the strongest German chess players, and was in 2004, 2005 and 2011, German Vice Champion.

He was first nominated on the occasion of a friendship struggle against Greece in the German national team in 2002. 2004 in Calvià, 2006 in Turin and at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden in 2008, he represented Germany at Chess Olympiads. In 2009 he moved from Hamburg to SK current German team champion OSG Baden -Baden. In the first Austrian Bundesliga he played for SK Hohenems, from the season 2010/ 11 for the SK Sparkasse Jenbach.

In July 2008, he was able to prove at the Dortmund Chess days in the super-tournament with 4 points from 7 games shared second place behind Péter Lékó. He could, inter alia, leave the former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik behind. He has also worked as Sekundant, among other things, he worked for Péter Lékó and Jan Smeets.

November 2011 he was with the German national team champion Europe. This was achieved by a sensational victory against Armenia in the last round.

For ChessBase he took lessons on video that were published under the title Black repertoire against 1.e4 on DVD. It recommended, among other things the Marshall Attack, whose leading experts he belongs.

At times, he played a lot of poker and, together with Marcel Lüske the book Poker for Winners (ISBN 978-3-9811543-1-3 ) written.

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