Erik Blomqvist (chess player)

Erik Blomqvist
Blomqvist in 2016
CountrySweden
Born19 October 1990 (1990-10-19) (age 34)
Stockholm, Sweden
TitleGrandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating2481 (January 2025)
Peak rating2574 (January 2017)

Erik Blomqvist (born 19 October 1990) is a Swedish chess grandmaster. He is a two-time Swedish Chess Champion.

Chess career

Born in 1990, Blomqvist earned his international master title in 2008 and his grandmaster title in 2013.[1]

He won the Swedish Chess Championship in 2016 with a score of 7½/9 (+6–0=3), two points ahead of runner-up Nils Grandelius.[2] In 2016 he also won the Nordic Chess Championship. He won the Swedish Championship again in 2019.[3] He was the No. 6 ranked Swedish player as of July 2020.[4]

In August 2022, he finished third in the Riga Technical University Open "A" tournament.[5] In August 2023, he finished second in the Riga Technical University Open "A" tournament.[6]

References

  1. ^ 84th FIDE Congress, Tallinn, EST, 30 September - 10 October 2013 FIDE
  2. ^ Erik Blomqvist: Swedish Champion 2016 ChessBase
  3. ^ Erik Blomqvist vann SM i Eskilstuna Archived 14 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine Swedish Chess Federation
  4. ^ Staff writer(s) (July 2018). "Federations Ranking – Sweden". FIDE. Archived from the original on 1 June 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  5. ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Riga Technical University Open 2022 - Tournament A". chess-results.com.
  6. ^ Riga Technical University Open 2023 - Tournament A
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