Tomi Nyback

Tomi Nybäck ( born April 3 1985 in Järvenpää ) is a Finnish chess player. He became an International Master in 2001. Since 2003 he is the Grand Master.

His current Elo rating is 2627 (as of September 2011), so that he leads the Finnish ranking as the youngest player in the top 20 with a big lead for many years. He had his highest Elo rating of 2656 from January to April 2011.

Achievements

In April 2002, he won a First Saturday GM Tournament in Budapest. When Stork Young Masters in August 2002 in Hengelo he shared the first place with Jan Smeets and reached a Elo performance of 2721st In October 2002, he was third at the U18 European Championship in Peniscola. In July 2003 he won the Heart of Finland tournament in Jyväskylä. Also in the U18 World Youth Championship in October / November 2003 in Halkidiki, he reached the third place. The Finnish singles championship he won in 2008 in Mänttä with 9 points from 9 games.

National

For Finland, he played on six Chess Olympiads (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 ) with a total score of 31.5 points out of 54 games ( 21, = 21, -13, 58.3 %). He participated in six European Team Championships ( 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 ) with a total score of 19, = 22, -6 ( 63.8 % ) participated, taking of at the 2005 European Championships in Gothenburg for its result 5.5 from 8 on first board received an individual bronze medal at the European Championships 2009 in Novi Sad, a silver medal for 6.5 from 9 on top board.

Chess club

Nybäck plays in the Finnish 1st league, the SM -Liiga, for Aatos Helsinki. Also at the British 4NCL ( for Slough Sharks ), the Belgian National Inter Clubs ( for chess fans Wirtz field) and the Icelandic Team Championship ( for Taflfélag Vestmannaeyja ) he has already participated. In Sweden he played for SK Sollentuna, with whom he 2001/ 02 and 2002/ 03 the team championship, won in France, he plays for the Club de L' Echiquier Chalonnaise. In the German Chess Bundesliga he fights for the club Werder Bremen, with whom he was in the 2004/05 season, his first for Bremen, German team champion. The picture shows him wearing the jersey of the club Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga battle in February 2010 in Munich.

With Werder Bremen, he took from 2005 to 2010 in five European Championships for club teams ( European Club Cup) part. 2005 in Saint -Vincent, he reached for his score of 5 out of 6 on the fifth board a bronze medal (Werder Bremen finished fifth ). The following year he had in joining ( Bremen was 13 ) at the association European Team Championships in Bremen a result of 6.5 out of 7 on the fifth board ( Elo performance of 2887 ) and was awarded a gold medal