Leif Erlend Johannessen

Leif Erlend Johannessen ( born April 14, 1980 in Oslo) is a Norwegian chess player.

Achievements

He finished second behind mountains Østenstad 1999, the Norwegian singles championship. In the same year he became Norwegian champion in blitz chess. For the Norwegian singles championship in 2000 he finished third in 2001 second again, this time behind Einar Gausel. In January 2002, he won the OSS Grandmaster Tournament in Oslo in April of the same year the 6th United Insurance Master in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In January 2004, he won the Excelsior Cup in Gothenburg, in August of that year he was tied for first in the policies Cup in Taastrup. In 2005 he finished third in the Norwegian singles championship.

For the Norwegian national team, he played at the 1995 U16 Chess Olympiad in the Canary Islands on the first board. In the European Team Championships 2005 in Gothenburg, he played on the first board with an Elo performance of 2647, he participated in five Chess Olympiads: .. 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 At the Chess Olympiad in 2010 he coached the Norwegian women's national team.

Chess club he plays in Norway at the Oslo Schakselskap whose vice president he is. In the German Chess Bundesliga he first played for Werder Bremen and from 2002 for the SV Wattenscheid. In the British 4NCL he played on top board of the team Betsson.com. He already played in the Icelandic Team Championship. In Portugal, he plays for Mata de Benfica of Lisbon. In the Swedish Elitserien he played in the 2004/05 season, and indeed for the Lunds ASK.

He became International Champion in 1999, and since 2002 it bears the grandmaster title. The first standard for this he reached in Oslo, the second in Southampton Parish on Bermuda and the third at Siegeman tournament in Malmö. His Elo rating is 2521 (as of February 2013), so it is on the fifth place in the Norwegian Elo ranking. His previous highest Elo rating was 2564 in October 2005.

Innovation

Alexei Shirov played against Johannessen on 13 November 2004 in the chess Bundesliga in the Karlovy Vary variation of the Slav Defence 1 d2 -d4 d7 -d5 2 c4 c2 - c7 - c6 3 Sg1 -f3 - f6 Ng8 4 Nb1 - c3 d5xc4 5 a2 -a4 Bc8 - f5 6 Nf3 - e5 - d7 Sb8 7 Se5xc4 Qd8 - c7 after the familiar features 8 g2 - g3 e7 - e5 9 d4xe5 Sd7xe5 10 Lc1 - f4 Nf6 - d7 - 11 Lf1 g2 g7- g5 12 Sc4 e3 g5xf4 13 Se3xf5 0-0-0 Dd1 14 -c2 - c5 Nd7 15 0-0 Sc5 - e6 16 Dc2 -e4 a7 - a5 f4xg3 17 h2xg3 the new train 18. Sc3 B5N! , from whom he had learned that Peter Heine Nielsen had analyzed him to win. In Informator # 92 Johannessen's train was honored as best innovation.

The father of innovation 18.Sb5 Peter Heine Nielsen 's, who had previously found it together in January Gustafsson and analyzed. Nielsen showed the train his former pupil, Magnus Carlsen, who in turn to his colleague in the Norwegian national team, Leif Erlend Johannessen, passed on him.

Private

From professional Johannessen is a lawyer. He is married.

For the Norsk Sjakkblad, the official organ of the Norwegian Chess Federation, he writes a column called Leffis lille lure. Together with the Norwegian chess player Sverre Johnsen (born 1964 ), he wrote a book about the Zaitsev variation in the Ruy Lopez.

Publications

• The Ruy Lopez: A Guide for Black. Gambit Publications, London 2007, ISBN 1-904600-67-0. ( with Sverre Johnsen )