Sune Berg Hansen
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Country | Denmark |
Born | 21 April 1971 (1971-04-21) (age 53) Gentofte, Denmark |
Title | Grandmaster (1998) |
FIDE rating | 2520 (August 2024) |
Peak rating | 2603 (November 2010) |
Sune Berg Hansen (born 21 April 1971) is a Danish chess grandmaster. He is a seven-time Danish Chess Champion.
Chess career
Hansen earned his international master title in 1993 and his grandmaster title in 1998. He has won the Danish Chess Championship on seven occasions: in 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2015. He has competed in eight Chess Olympiads: in 1994, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012 and 2016. He has also competed in six European Team Chess Championships: in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015. As of September 2017, he has a rating of 2580, which makes him the No. 3 ranked Danish player.[1]
Personal life
Born in Gentofte, Hansen holds a cand.polit. from the University of Copenhagen and has been a professional poker player since 2005. He is also a day trader and writes a chess and poker column for the Danish newspaper Politiken.[2] He founded the Danish PokerNet website, which was acquired by the RakeTech Group in 2017.[3]
References
- ^ "Federations Ranking - Denmark". FIDE. September 2017. Archived from the original on 2019-05-17. Retrieved 2017-09-27.
- ^ Gravesen, Af Mads (26 October 2015). "Skakkonge sætter markedet til vægs". Dagbladet Børsen (in Danish). p. 5.
- ^ Menmuir, Ted (May 24, 2017). "RakeTech strengthens Danish arm with Pokernet.dk and Odds.dk acquisitions". SBCNews.uk. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
External links
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- Sune Berg Hansen player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Sune Berg Hansen rating card at FIDE
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- Jacob Aagaard
- Mads Andersen
- Jonas Buhl Bjerre
- Henrik Danielsen
- Jakob Vang Glud [Wikidata]
- Curt Hansen
- Lars Bo Hansen [Wikidata]
- Sune Berg Hansen
- Carsten Høi
- Jens Kristiansen
- Bent Larsen
- Bjorn Moller Ochsner [ru]
- Peter Heine Nielsen
- Davor Palo
- Allan Stig Rasmussen
- Lars Schandorff [Wikidata]
- Jesper Søndergaard Thybo
- See also: List of chess grandmasters
- Category:Danish chess players
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