{"id":46192,"date":"2026-05-09T22:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/?p=46192"},"modified":"2026-05-11T06:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:14:53","slug":"icelandic-championship-2026-hilmir-freyurisson-claims-maiden-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/icelandic-championship-2026-hilmir-freyurisson-claims-maiden-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic Championship 2026: Hilmir Freyurisson claims maiden title"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"46192\" class=\"elementor elementor-46192\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4718196 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4718196\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e69c924 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"e69c924\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iceland-Champion.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-46193\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iceland-Champion.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iceland-Champion-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iceland-Champion-768x520.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45ec324 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"45ec324\" 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>IM <strong>Hilmir Freyurisson<\/strong> emerged as the winner of the 2026 Icelandic Championship, securing his maiden national title.<\/p><p>The 2026 edition of the Icelandic Championship, a 10-player round-robin with classical time control, took place in Reykjavik from May 1\u20139. The event was a very close race, with as many as three players \u2013 Freyurisson (7\/8), defending champion GM <strong>Vignir Vatnar Stefansson<\/strong> (6.5\/8), and GM <strong>Hannes Stefansson<\/strong> (6\/8) \u2013 having a shot at the title heading into the final round.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-04e470c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"04e470c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iceland-Playing-Hall.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-46196\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iceland-Playing-Hall.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iceland-Playing-Hall-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iceland-Playing-Hall-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e613f5c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e613f5c\" 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>Freyurisson took matters into his own hands and clinched the title by defeating FM <strong>B\u00e1r\u00f0ur \u00d6rn Birkisson<\/strong>. The champion&#8217;s record in this event is nothing short of remarkable: eight wins, one loss, and not a single draw.<\/p><p>Vignir Vatnar Stefansson also pulled off a final-round victory over <strong>Gudmundur Kjartansson <\/strong>but finished half a point behind the champion. Notably, he was the only player to beat the champion and completed the event undefeated.<\/p><p>Hannes Stefansson rounded out the podium with 6.5\/9 following a quick draw with IM Dagur Ragnarsson in the final round.<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.chess-results.com\/tnr1372834.aspx?lan=11&amp;art=4&amp;turdet=YES&amp;SNode=S0\">Final standings<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p>Photos<strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/skak.is\/\">https:\/\/skak.is\/<\/a> <\/strong><\/p><p>Official website<strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/skak.is\/\">https:\/\/skak.is\/<\/a> <\/strong><\/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\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IM Hilmir Freyurisson emerged as the winner of the 2026 Icelandic Championship, securing his maiden national title. The 2026 edition of the Icelandic Championship, a 10-player round-robin with classical time control, took place in Reykjavik from May 1\u20139. The event was a very close race, with as many as three players \u2013 Freyurisson (7\/8), defending champion GM Vignir Vatnar Stefansson (6.5\/8), and GM Hannes Stefansson (6\/8) \u2013 having a shot at the title heading into the final round. Freyurisson took matters into his own hands and clinched the title by defeating FM B\u00e1r\u00f0ur \u00d6rn Birkisson. The champion&#8217;s record in this event is nothing short of remarkable: eight wins, one loss, and not a single draw. Vignir Vatnar Stefansson also pulled off a final-round victory over Gudmundur Kjartansson but finished half a point behind the champion. Notably, he was the only player to beat the champion and completed the event undefeated. Hannes Stefansson rounded out the podium with 6.5\/9 following a quick draw with IM Dagur Ragnarsson in the final round. Final standings Photos: https:\/\/skak.is\/ Official website: https:\/\/skak.is\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[227,297],"regular":[361],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-46192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-iceland","tag-national-championship","regular-regular"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46192","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46200,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46192\/revisions\/46200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46192"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=46192"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=46192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}