Jonny Hector
Jonny Hector ( born February 13, 1964 in Malmö) is a Swedish chess player.
Life
The chess games he learned at the age of 14 years. He is married to a Dane and lives in Copenhagen. He has one child (* 2004). 1991 and 1997, he was awarded the Schack Gideon, a once a year Prize awarded by the Swedish Chess Federation, which is named after Gideon Ståhlberg.
Achievements
OTB
Individual successes
In 1984 he was in Stockholm Swedish chess master. In 1989 he won with 1.5 points ahead of Igor Rausis and Heikki Westerinen the International Tournament in Gausdal. When Rilton Cup in Stockholm he could never win, but recorded several good placings: 1989/90 5th, 1990/91 3rd place, 1992/93 2nd place, 1993/94 2nd place and 2000/ 01 8th Place. At the 2nd International tournament of the chess club Hellir Reykjavík Reykjavík in 1997, he was tied behind Ludger Keitlinghaus and Jörg Hickl third parties. In 1998, he shared in the 1st Oxford Oxford International, a category 9 tournament victory with Julian Hodgson, ahead of John Nunn and Emil Sutovsky. In Gausdal he won this year the 3rd Arnold J. Eikrem Memorial 7.5 from 9 and a large margin. In the same year he won together he tied with Jonathan Speelman the Roskilde Open. In 2000, he won jointly with Boris Gulko and Lars Bo Hansen, the Copenhagen Open in Copenhagen. The International Hamburger Championship he could win in 2001 and 2002, with 8 out of 9, 2001, and 2002, one and a half by two points and an Elo performance of 2809th In 2001, he won the soLett Open in Skellefteå, a Swiss system tournament neunrundiges. The Swedish Individual Championship he won in a category 9 tournament 2002 Evgeny Agrest in Skara. In 2004, he won the tournament to mark the centennial anniversary of the Copenhagen chess club AS 04 In the Swedish championship in 2006 in Gothenburg, he was behind Johan Hellsten and Emanuel Berg third parties. In the same year he was third in the policies Cup in Taastrup, tied behind Wadym Malachatko and Nigel Short and won the Open LGA in Nuremberg Alexander Graf and Daniel Fridman. In 2008 he was called for the third time tied for first in the policies Cup, also called Copenhagen Open, which took place this time in Helsingør. In 2010 he won the GM tournament for the 75th anniversary of the association BSF in Copenhagen Brønshøj.
National
With the Swedish national team, he participated in four Chess Olympiads, in 1988 in Thessaloniki on 2nd Reserve Board, 1992 in Manila on the third board, 2000 in Istanbul on the third board ( with an Elo performance of 2634 ) and 2002 in Bled on the third board. He pulled at Chess Olympiads 25.5 points from 42 games ( 17, = 17, -8, 60.7 percent). He also plays in four European Team Championships. 1989 in Haifa, he had the best score of all players on the fourth board with 6 points from 8 games ( Elo performance 2614 ), 2001 in León, he also played on the fourth board, 2003 in Plovdiv on the second board and 2005 in Gothenburg on the first reserve board. In European Team Championships his overall record is 15.5 out of 29 ( 12, = 7, -10, 53.4 percent).
Club teams
From 1994 until the end of the commitment of the club sponsor after the 2002/ 03 season he played in Germany at SV Lübeck. During this time he won between 2001 and 2003 three times in succession the German team championship. Since the season 2005/ 06 he played at SK Tower Emsdetten. In the Swedish Elitserien he plays on top board of the chess club Malmö Limhamns SK, with whom he won the team championship in the 2012/13 season, in the 1980s and 1990s, he played for Malmö chess club Kirsebergs SK. In the Danish 1st League, he plays for the Græsteder Skakklubb Nordkalott. Also in the Icelandic Team Championships he has played, most recently in the 2001/ 02 season.
Playing style and rating
Jonny Hector is known for interesting openings. His playing style is aggressive with deep knowledge of little-known gambit play. So he is like the Goering Gambit, the Schara - Hennig Gambit, the Desprez Opening the Breyer Variation in the Vienna Game, the Sleipner Opening, Sicilian Paulsen in the variant and the Neo - Archangelsk variant of the Spanish defense one.
In 1987 he became an International Master, he is since 1991 grandmasters. His Elo rating is 2539 (as of March 2013), that he is on the seventh position of the Swedish Elo ranking. The previous highest Elo rating of 2609 Hector was in May 2010.
Correspondence Chess
In correspondence chess his current Elo rating is 2616 (as of March 22, 2009 ), thus it is on the shared 48th place of the Correspondence Chess World Ranking. Last for the Swedish national team, he played in the 2003 correspondence chess, in a friendly against Germany. His opponent was Stephan Busemann. Hector bears the title of Grand Champion in correspondence chess.