Tiger Hillarp Persson

Tiger Hillarp Persson
Hillarp Persson in 2016
CountrySweden
Born (1970-10-28) 28 October 1970
Malmö, Sweden
TitleGrandmaster (1999)
FIDE rating2445 (July 2025)
Peak rating2618 (April 2009)

Tiger Hillarp Persson is a Swedish chess grandmaster. He is a Swedish Chess Champion. In Go he attained the level of amateur 1-Dan on KGS in 2015 and 3-Dan in the EGF ratings in 2023.[1][2]

Chess career

He won tournaments in Gentofte (VISA Nordic Grand Prix), ahead of Sune Berg Hansen, Simen Agdestein, Einar Gausel, Helgi Grétarsson, Heikki Westerinen and others, York in 1999, Jersey (2000), Barcelona Sants 2003 and multiple times the Guernsey International Chess Open (2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 (best on tie-break), 2016, and again 2018 (best on tie-break)). He finished second in the Nordic Chess Championship in Vammala, Finland (2005). In 2008 he was the winner of the Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in his hometown of Malmö with an impressive 71⁄2 points. In 2009 he finished second in the C group of the Corus Chess Tournament. Representing Sweden, he scored individual bronze medals in the Chess Olympiad in Elista, 1998 and in Dresden 2008.

Tiger has been called 'one of the most creative and non-traditional players', exemplified by his construction of 'one of the few self-administered pawn forks in chess history' in the game against Peter Heine Nielsen.[3][4] His game against Tomas Laurusas at the 43rd Chess Olympiad was ranked best game of 2018 by the editors of Chess.com.[5]

Tiger has written two books on the Modern Defense, including Tiger's Modern.[6]

Books & DVDs

  • Hillarp Persson, Tiger (2005). Tiger's Modern. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-9197524360.
  • Hillarp Persson, Tiger (2014). The Modern Tiger. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-83-5.
  • Hillarp Persson, Tiger (2013), Fighting for the Initiative in Chess (DVD) - A2B Media Ltd

Notable games

References

  1. ^ "Chess Grandmaster Tiger Hillarp Achieves Shodan « American Go e-Journal". usgo.org. Archived from the original on 26 January 2023.
  2. ^ "European Go Database – Player card for Tiger Hillarp". europeangodatabase.eu. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  3. ^ "In the Jaws of the Tiger – part two". chessbase.com. August 2007.
  4. ^ "Peter Heine Nielsen vs Tiger Hillarp Persson (1998) Perssonal Best". chessgames.com.
  5. ^ "The 10 Best Chess Games of 2018". chess.com. 28 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Chess is My Life!: The Modern Tiger- A Review". sagarteacheschess.blogspot.com. 4 March 2015.
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