{"id":15198,"date":"2021-05-01T15:36:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T15:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=15198"},"modified":"2023-10-27T08:54:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T08:54:37","slug":"gretarsson-wins-icelandic-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/gretarsson-wins-icelandic-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretarsson wins Icelandic Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15198\" class=\"elementor elementor-15198\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7cea845d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"7cea845d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-41640d62\" data-id=\"41640d62\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78698065 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"78698065\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Icelandic Championship, a 10-player round-robin tournament with classical time control took place from 22-30 April 2021 in K\u00f3pavogur.<\/p><p>This tournament was a very exciting event with a keenly contested\u00a0final round that did not disappoint the participants and chess fans. The rating-favourite\u00a0<strong>Hj\u00f6rvar Steinn Gr\u00e9tarsson<\/strong>\u00a0was a half-point ahead of\u00a0<strong>J\u00f3hann Hjartarson<\/strong>\u00a0but the veteran put tremendous pressure on the leader by defeating Hannes Hl\u00edfar with black pieces.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/app.fide.com\/upload\/9823\/83fc8b2e80070bfef2dde3210f1811d4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p><p>To his credit, Hj\u00f6rvar did not flinch \u2013 he gradually outplayed\u00a0<strong>Sigurbj\u00f6rn Bj\u00f6rnsson<\/strong>\u00a0to score a full point in an endgame and took his first national title.\u00a0<strong>Gudmundur Kjartansson<\/strong>\u00a0finished third and earned bronze.<\/p><p><strong>Final standings<\/strong>:<\/p><p>1. \u00a0Gretarsson, Hjorvar Steinn (2588) \u2013 7<br \/>2. Hjartarson, Johann (2523) \u2013 6\u00bd<br \/>3. Kjartansson, Gudmundur (2503) \u2013 6<br \/>4. Thorfinnsson, Bragi (2432) \u2013 5\u00bd<br \/>5. Stefansson, Vignir Vatnar (2327) \u2013 5<br \/>6. Gretarsson, Helgi Ass (2437) \u2013 5<br \/>7. Stefansson, Hannes (2532) \u2013 4<br \/>8. Thorfinnsson, Bjorn (2384) \u2013 3\u00bd<br \/>9. Bjornsson, Sigurbjorn (2327) \u2013 2<br \/>10. Mai, Alexander Oliver (2025) \u2013 \u00bd<\/p><p>Photo: Ingibj\u00f6rg Edda<\/p><p>Official website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/skak.is\/skakthing\/\">skak.is\/skakthing\/<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Icelandic Championship, a 10-player round-robin tournament with classical time control took place from 22-30 April 2021 in K\u00f3pavogur. This tournament was a very exciting event with a keenly contested\u00a0final round that did not disappoint the participants and chess fans. The rating-favourite\u00a0Hj\u00f6rvar Steinn Gr\u00e9tarsson\u00a0was a half-point ahead of\u00a0J\u00f3hann Hjartarson\u00a0but the veteran put tremendous pressure on the leader by defeating Hannes Hl\u00edfar with black pieces. To his credit, Hj\u00f6rvar did not flinch \u2013 he gradually outplayed\u00a0Sigurbj\u00f6rn Bj\u00f6rnsson\u00a0to score a full point in an endgame and took his first national title.\u00a0Gudmundur Kjartansson\u00a0finished third and earned bronze. Final standings: 1. \u00a0Gretarsson, Hjorvar Steinn (2588) \u2013 72. Hjartarson, Johann (2523) \u2013 6\u00bd3. Kjartansson, Gudmundur (2503) \u2013 64. Thorfinnsson, Bragi (2432) \u2013 5\u00bd5. Stefansson, Vignir Vatnar (2327) \u2013 56. Gretarsson, Helgi Ass (2437) \u2013 57. Stefansson, Hannes (2532) \u2013 48. Thorfinnsson, Bjorn (2384) \u2013 3\u00bd9. Bjornsson, Sigurbjorn (2327) \u2013 210. Mai, Alexander Oliver (2025) \u2013 \u00bd Photo: Ingibj\u00f6rg Edda Official website:\u00a0skak.is\/skakthing\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[227,49],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-15198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-iceland","tag-national-championships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15203,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15198\/revisions\/15203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15198"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=15198"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=15198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}