Hannes Hlífar Stefánsson (born 18 July 1972) is an Iceland

Iceland

Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

ic chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 Grandmaster. Stefánsson has won the Icelandic Chess Championship

Icelandic Chess Championship

The Icelandic Chess Championship is usually held in Reykjavík. It is organised by the Icelandic Chess Federation , the body responsible for holding national chess events and for representing Icelandic chess at the World Chess Federation...

 every year since 1998 except for 2000 and 2009 when he didn't participate. His 11 titles make him the record holder for most Championships. He won at Athens 1993 (Acropolis International

Acropolis International chess tournament

The Acropolis International is a chess tournament held in Athens.The longest running international chess tournament in Greece, the first event was won by Luděk Pachman in 1968....

) and tied for 1st-4th with Hedinn Steingrimsson, Yuriy Kryvoruchko

Yuriy Kryvoruchko

Yuriy Kryvoruchko is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster .He came third in the 2004 European Youth Chess Championship in Ürgüp and in the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship in Yerevan. In 2008 he tied for 1st–8th with Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian, Sergey Fedorchuk, Konstantin Chernyshov, Andrei...

 and Mihail Marin

Mihail Marin

Mihail Marin is a Romanian chess Grandmaster. As of July 2011, his FIDE rating is 2548. Marin's first major success in international chess was in qualifying for the Interzonal in 1987. He has won three Romanian Championships and has played in the Chess Olympiads ten times, winning a bronze...

in the Reykjavik Open tournament 2009.
His current Elo rating is 2588.

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