Rune Djurhuus

Rune Djurhuus ( born January 25, 1970 in Elverum ) is a Norwegian chess player.

Life

The family name Djurhuus comes from the Faroe Islands. Rune Djurhuus is related to Hans Andrias Djurhuus and Janus Djurhuus. At the age of six or seven years he learned to play chess. In 1980, he signed up at Elverum Sjakklub, 1991 at the Akademisk Sjakklubb the University of Oslo, where he studied computer science. He was until 2009 a member of the Swedish association Skara SS He lives in Oslo and has a son and a daughter. Djurhuus regularly writes chess columnist for the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten and the Trondheim newspaper Adresseavisen.

Chess success

In 1985 he was the Norwegian junior champion, turn of the year 1990/91 he was in Arnhem Youth European Championship U20, before Vladimir Kramnik and Loek van Wely. 1990 and 1992, he became Norwegian champion in blitz chess. The Troll Masters in Gausdal he won the year 1993/94 ( category 9). In 2004 he won the Barent Championship in Alta.

Since 1989 he bears the title of International Master, Grandmaster, he was 1996. According to a grandmaster norm at the Chess Olympiad in 1992 in Manila and two standards at the Troll Masters in Gausdal 1994/95 and 1995/96 He is also an International Master in correspondence chess. He received this title in 1994. During the Norwegian Individual Championship in OTB chess, he was second four times (1990, 1994, 2000 and 2003) and five others (1988, 1995, 1996, 1998 and 1999), but she never could win. He took for the Norwegian national team in six Chess Olympiads ( 1988-1996 and 2006) with a positive total return of 26, = 17, -19. In the European Team Championship in 1989 in Haifa, he received an individual gold medal for his score of 7 out of 9 on the sixth board.

His current Elo rating is 2444 (as of March 2011), it is thus ranked Eleven of the Norwegian Elo ranking. He had his best Elo rating of 2530 January-June 1997.