{"id":23000,"date":"2023-05-26T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=23000"},"modified":"2023-10-25T11:02:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T11:02:56","slug":"icelandic-championship-vignir-vatnar-stefansson-wins-maiden-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/icelandic-championship-vignir-vatnar-stefansson-wins-maiden-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic Championship: Vignir Vatnar Stef\u00e1nsson wins maiden title"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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20-year-old IM\u00a0Vignir Vatnar Stef\u00e1nsson<\/strong>\u00a0won his first Icelandic championship title in a close and exciting competition that came down to the wire.<\/p>

Like many previous editions, the 2023 Icelandic Championship was a 12-player round-robin tournament with classical time control that took place from May 15\u201325 in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland.<\/p>

As tournament fate would have it, as many as three participants –\u00a0Gudmundur Kjartansson<\/strong>, Vignir Vatnar Stef\u00e1nsson and\u00a0Hannes Stefansson<\/strong>\u00a0– scored 8.5\/11 and tied for first place. In the final round, the leaders Vignir and Hannes drew their game (although the former was very close to a victory) while Gudmundur beat Lenka Ptacnikova and caught up with them.<\/p>

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To determine the champion, a blitz double round robin (5 min + 5 sec increment) was played. Vignir Vatnar Stef\u00e1nsson defeated Gudmundur Kjartansson and then escaped with a draw against Hannes Stefansson, while Kjartansson made quick work of Hannes Stefansson to score a full point.<\/p>

The competition culminated in the fourth-round game between Gudmundur Kjartansson and Vignir Vatnar Stef\u00e1nsson. Playing with White, Gudmundur achieved a slightly better position but made a fatal error on move 28, allowing his opponent to launch a deadly attack.<\/p>

Now Vignir needed just a draw with the white pieces in the duel between Stefanssons. Although he was in danger at some point, Vignir (pictured below, left) managed to trade most of the pieces and reached a draw that secured his maiden national title.<\/p>

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Final standings<\/strong>:<\/p>

1<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Vignir Vatnar Stefansson<\/p><\/td>

2470<\/p><\/td>

8\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Gudmundur Kjartansson<\/p><\/td>

2402<\/p><\/td>

8\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

3<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Hannes Stefansson<\/p><\/td>

2521<\/p><\/td>

8\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

4<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Hilmir Freyr Heimisson<\/p><\/td>

2353<\/p><\/td>

8<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

5<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson<\/p><\/td>

2539<\/p><\/td>

6<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

6<\/p><\/td>

FM<\/p><\/td>

Aleksandr Domalchuk-Jonasson<\/p><\/td>

2338<\/p><\/td>

5\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

7<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Johann Hjartarson<\/p><\/td>

2466<\/p><\/td>

5\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

8<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Henrik Danielsen<\/p><\/td>

2501<\/p><\/td>

4<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

9<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Dagur Ragnarsson<\/p><\/td>

2346<\/p><\/td>

4<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

10<\/p><\/td>

WGM<\/p><\/td>

Lenka Ptacnikova<\/p><\/td>

2099<\/p><\/td>

3<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

11<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Bragi Thorfinnsson<\/p><\/td>

2431<\/p><\/td>

2\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

12<\/p><\/td>

\u00a0<\/td>

Johann Ingvason<\/p><\/td>

2076<\/p><\/td>

2<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

Official website:\u00a0https:\/\/skak.is\/frettir\/<\/a><\/p>

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20-year-old IM\u00a0Vignir Vatnar Stef\u00e1nsson\u00a0won his first Icelandic championship title in a close and exciting competition that came down to the wire. Like many previous editions, the 2023 Icelandic Championship was a 12-player round-robin tournament with classical time control that took place from May 15\u201325 in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland. As tournament fate would have it, as many as three participants –\u00a0Gudmundur Kjartansson, Vignir Vatnar Stef\u00e1nsson and\u00a0Hannes Stefansson\u00a0– scored 8.5\/11 and tied for first place. In the final round, the leaders Vignir and Hannes drew their game (although the former was very close to a victory) while Gudmundur beat Lenka Ptacnikova and caught up with them. To determine the champion, a blitz double round robin (5 min + 5 sec increment) was played. Vignir Vatnar Stef\u00e1nsson defeated Gudmundur Kjartansson and then escaped with a draw against Hannes Stefansson, while Kjartansson made quick work of Hannes Stefansson to score a full point. The competition culminated in the fourth-round game between Gudmundur Kjartansson and Vignir Vatnar Stef\u00e1nsson. Playing with White, Gudmundur achieved a slightly better position but made a fatal error on move 28, allowing his opponent to launch a deadly attack. Now Vignir needed just a draw with the white pieces in the duel between Stefanssons. Although he was in danger at some point, Vignir (pictured below, left) managed to trade most of the pieces and reached a draw that secured his maiden national title. Final standings: 1 IM Vignir Vatnar Stefansson 2470 8\u00bd 2 GM Gudmundur Kjartansson 2402 8\u00bd 3 GM Hannes Stefansson 2521 8\u00bd 4 IM Hilmir Freyr Heimisson 2353 8 5 GM Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson 2539 6 6 FM Aleksandr Domalchuk-Jonasson 2338 5\u00bd 7 GM Johann Hjartarson 2466 5\u00bd 8 GM Henrik Danielsen 2501 4 9 IM Dagur Ragnarsson 2346 4 10 WGM Lenka Ptacnikova 2099 3 11 GM Bragi Thorfinnsson 2431 2\u00bd 12 \u00a0 Johann Ingvason 2076 2 Official website:\u00a0https:\/\/skak.is\/frettir\/ Photos: official website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23002,"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-23000","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\/23000","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=23000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23005,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23000\/revisions\/23005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23000"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=23000"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=23000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}