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Eric Hansen (chess player)

Eric Hansen (born May 24, 1992) is a Canadian chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title in 2013. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2011 and 2013. Hansen has represented Canada in the Chess Olympiad since 2012.[1]

Eric Hansen
Hansen in 2014 during the Reykjavik Open
CountryCanada
Born (1992-05-24) May 24, 1992 (age 31)
Irvine, California, U.S.
TitleGrandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating2610 (May 2024)
Peak rating2629 (September 2017)

Biography edit

Hansen holds a dual citizenship as a Canadian and American. Hansen was born in Irvine, California, United States,[2] but grew up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He first attended elementary school at Webber Academy where his Chess roots formed a solid foundation during school Chess club.

In a March 2016 interview with La Presse, Hansen said he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) when he was 8 or 9 years old.[3] In a 2015 article by sportsnet, Hansen said he was prescribed Ritalin temporarily and enrolled in a school for kids with learning disabilities.[4]

Hansen attended the University of Texas at Dallas for one year, beginning in September 2011, on a chess scholarship, representing the school in intercollegiate tournaments. He took a break from his studies to focus on chess full-time,[5] and made his European base in Valencia, Spain, in autumn 2013.[6]

Chess career edit

Eric began playing chess in grade school at age nine. By 15, he became the youngest ever Alberta champion[7] and earned the title FIDE Master (FM). He became Alberta champion again in 2009,[8] 2011,[9] and 2013.[10]

In 2011, Hansen tied for first place in the Canadian Closed Championship with a score of 7½/9 points, but lost a two-game playoff to Bator Sambuev, who was declared champion. Nevertheless, Hansen was nominated to play in the FIDE World Cup 2011.[11][12] In that event, Hansen played Vugar Gashimov, losing both games. In a 4 September 2012 video interview at the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Hansen reflected on his 2011 World Cup experience: "I got paired against Gashimov and he killed me. It was a good experience because I realized I wasn't serious enough to be competing with these guys. I'm more serious now ... it was good for motivating me."[13]

Hansen won the Canadian Open Chess Championship in Victoria, British Columbia, in July 2012.[14] The next month, he tied for 5th–10th places in the World Junior Chess Championship in Athens, Greece, scoring 9/13 points,[15] the best-ever finish by a Canadian in this event; the previous best had been Vinny Puri's tie for 8th place in 1988.[citation needed] At the Isthmia Open tournament at Vrachati a few days later, Hansen scored his first Grandmaster norm with a tie for 1st–3rd place.[16]

Hansen achieved his final Grandmaster norm in the 40th Chess Olympiad, in Istanbul, Turkey, in August–September 2012,[17] where he made his debut on the Canadian national team. He played on board four and scored 7½/10 points, boosting his FIDE rating by 25 points, reaching 2500 (the minimum for the GM title). Hansen is the second-youngest Canadian to attain the title of Grandmaster, after Mark Bluvshtein, who did so at age 16 in 2004, and the youngest homegrown Canadian (because Bluvshtein received Israeli youth chess training systems before immigrating to Canada in 1999 at age 11). FIDE awarded him the title in January 2013.[18]

Hansen tied for 1st–5th places at the October 2012 American Continental Championship in Mar del Plata, Argentina, with Julio Granda Zuñiga, Alexander Shabalov, Diego Flores, and Gregory Kaidanov. Since there were four qualifying places for the 2013 World Cup, Hansen played a rapidplay playoff with the other four, finishing fourth.[19] In December, he won the 2nd Panama Open, scoring 8½/9.[20][21]

In early 2013, Hansen tied for first place at the Cappelle-la-Grande Open in France.[22] In July he shared first place in the Canadian Open in Ottawa with Nigel Short, with both scoring 7½/9.[23]

In the 2015 Canadian Zonal Championship, Hansen shared first place with Leonid Gerzhoy and Tomas Krnan, who was declared the winner on tiebreak.[24]

In the online tournament Airthings Masters in February 2022, Hansen defeated both the World Champion Magnus Carlsen and the 2021's challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi in the preliminary rounds and qualified for the knockout phase.[25]

Online chess and streaming edit

Hansen is predominantly a blitz and bullet player, both over-the-board and online. He has played at Internet Chess Club (ICC), Chess.com, ChessCube, PlayChess.com, and lichess.org. For most of 2011, Hansen was recognized as the highest-rated player on ChessCube.com, with a 3000+ rating.[26] By April 2012, he was recognized as the highest-rated bullet player on Chess.com. He subsequently qualified for and accepted Chess.com's Death-Match 4 against then-IM Conrad Holt, who had the highest blitz rating. The two were living in the same dorm on the University of Texas at Dallas campus.[27] They were tied 4–4 after the first 8 rounds of 5-minute + 1-second increment blitz games. In the second round of 3-minute + 1-second increment blitz games, Holt pulled ahead 5.5–3.5, and he eventually won 15–11.[28]

Hansen is the main host of the "Chessbrah" chess channel on Twitch along with GM Aman Hambleton. The channel occasionally features other "brahs", most of whom are titled players, such as GM Yasser Seirawan, GM Robin van Kampen, GM Aryan Tari, NM Elias Oussedik, NM Omid Malek, NM Eric Kurtz, and FM Lefong Hua. Stream highlights are often later posted on a YouTube account with the same name as the Twitch channel. As of August 2023, both channels have about 320,000 followers/subscribers each.[29][30]

In April 2021, the Chessbrah YouTube channel received copyright strikes from a multi-channel network acting on the behalf of fellow Grandmaster and streamer Hikaru Nakamura, leading Hansen to criticise Nakamura for the strikes and for his past behaviour in the broader chess community.[31][32] Nakamura publicly apologized and retracted the copyright strikes, indicating he would take a more active role in the management of his content and business.[33]

References edit

  1. ^ Cohen, David (December 29, 2018). "Eric Hansen". Canadian Chess Biographies. Retrieved April 25, 2023.
  2. ^ "IM title application" (PDF). FIDE. July 8, 2010.
  3. ^ "Grand maître 2.0". La Presse. March 28, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
  4. ^ "Grand maître 2.0". sportsnet. 2015. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
  5. ^ "29th Cappelle-La-Grande Open: Sjugirov edges out pack". Chess News. March 4, 2013. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
  6. ^ http://www.chesstalk.info/forum/showthread.php?9541-Eric-Hansen-Aman-Hambleton-BIG-NEWS .Chesstalk.com, announcement by GM Eric Hansen, June 2013
  7. ^ "Alberta Chess Report - September 2008" (PDF). albertachess.org. Alberta Chess Review. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  8. ^ "Alberta Chess Report - June 2009" (PDF).
  9. ^ "Alberta Chess Report - June 2011" (PDF).
  10. ^ "Alberta Chess Report - August 2013" (PDF).
  11. ^ von Keitz, Michael (May 17, 2011). "2011 Canadian Closed Chess Championship". ChessBase. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  12. ^ Ficzere, Tony (May 13, 2011). "GM Sambuev wins the 2011 Canadian Closed Championship!". Susan Polgar Global Chess Daily News and Information. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  13. ^ "Interview With Eric Hansen Of Canada". YouTube. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  14. ^ "The Week in Chess 923". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  15. ^ "World Junior Championship: GM Alex Ipatov is the winner". ChessBase. August 16, 2012.
  16. ^ "GM Dmitry Svetushkin wins International Chess Tournament Isthmia 2012". Chessdom.com. August 27, 2012. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  17. ^ Title Applications - 1st quarter PB 2013, Yerevan, ARM, 18-20 January 2013. FIDE.
  18. ^ "Titles approved by the 1st quarter FIDE PB 2013". FIDE. January 22, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  19. ^ Silver, Albert (October 23, 2012). "Mar del Plata 2012 : The banana ate the monkey". Chess News. ChessBase.
  20. ^ . Chessdom. December 3, 2012. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  21. ^ L'Ami, Alina (December 11, 2012). "2012 Panama Open: IM Eric Hansen scores 2900 performance!". ChessBase.
  22. ^ "29th Cappelle la Grande Open 2013 - The Week in Chess". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
  23. ^ "Short wins 2013 Canadian Open Championship | Chess News". Chessbase.com. July 24, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  24. ^ "IM Tomas Krnan wins Canadian Championship, qu | Chessdom". alifies for World Chess Cup. July 17, 2015. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  25. ^ "Airthings Masters | Prelims 2022".
  26. ^ "YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  27. ^ "Blitz v. Bullet in Death-Match 4". Chess.com. April 28, 2012. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  28. ^ "Holt Takes 4th Blitz "Death Match"". Chess.com. April 28, 2012. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  29. ^ "Chessbrah - Twitch".
  30. ^ "Chessbrah - YouTube". YouTube.
  31. ^ Marshall, Cass (April 12, 2021). "The chess grandmaster drama that led to a fistfight, explained". Polygon. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  32. ^ Dessel, Josse (April 11, 2021). "Hikaru Nakamura accused of striking Eric Hansen's YouTube channel". WIN.gg. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  33. ^ Johnson, Nick (April 13, 2021). "Hikaru Nakamura drops chessbae, apologizes for YouTube strike". WIN.gg. Retrieved June 2, 2021.

External links edit

  • Eric Hansen rating card at FIDE  
  • Eric Hansen rating and tournament record at Chess Federation of Canada
  • Eric Hansen Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org  
  • Eric Hansen chess games at 365Chess.com  
  • Eric Hansen player profile at Chess.com
  • Eric Hansen on Twitter  

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Eric Hansen born May 24 1992 is a Canadian chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title in 2013 He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2011 and 2013 Hansen has represented Canada in the Chess Olympiad since 2012 1 Eric HansenHansen in 2014 during the Reykjavik OpenCountryCanadaBorn 1992 05 24 May 24 1992 age 31 Irvine California U S TitleGrandmaster 2013 FIDE rating2610 May 2024 Peak rating2629 September 2017 Contents 1 Biography 2 Chess career 3 Online chess and streaming 4 References 5 External linksBiography editHansen holds a dual citizenship as a Canadian and American Hansen was born in Irvine California United States 2 but grew up in Calgary Alberta Canada He first attended elementary school at Webber Academy where his Chess roots formed a solid foundation during school Chess club In a March 2016 interview with La Presse Hansen said he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD when he was 8 or 9 years old 3 In a 2015 article by sportsnet Hansen said he was prescribed Ritalin temporarily and enrolled in a school for kids with learning disabilities 4 Hansen attended the University of Texas at Dallas for one year beginning in September 2011 on a chess scholarship representing the school in intercollegiate tournaments He took a break from his studies to focus on chess full time 5 and made his European base in Valencia Spain in autumn 2013 6 Chess career editEric began playing chess in grade school at age nine By 15 he became the youngest ever Alberta champion 7 and earned the title FIDE Master FM He became Alberta champion again in 2009 8 2011 9 and 2013 10 In 2011 Hansen tied for first place in the Canadian Closed Championship with a score of 7 9 points but lost a two game playoff to Bator Sambuev who was declared champion Nevertheless Hansen was nominated to play in the FIDE World Cup 2011 11 12 In that event Hansen played Vugar Gashimov losing both games In a 4 September 2012 video interview at the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul Hansen reflected on his 2011 World Cup experience I got paired against Gashimov and he killed me It was a good experience because I realized I wasn t serious enough to be competing with these guys I m more serious now it was good for motivating me 13 Hansen won the Canadian Open Chess Championship in Victoria British Columbia in July 2012 14 The next month he tied for 5th 10th places in the World Junior Chess Championship in Athens Greece scoring 9 13 points 15 the best ever finish by a Canadian in this event the previous best had been Vinny Puri s tie for 8th place in 1988 citation needed At the Isthmia Open tournament at Vrachati a few days later Hansen scored his first Grandmaster norm with a tie for 1st 3rd place 16 Hansen achieved his final Grandmaster norm in the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul Turkey in August September 2012 17 where he made his debut on the Canadian national team He played on board four and scored 7 10 points boosting his FIDE rating by 25 points reaching 2500 the minimum for the GM title Hansen is the second youngest Canadian to attain the title of Grandmaster after Mark Bluvshtein who did so at age 16 in 2004 and the youngest homegrown Canadian because Bluvshtein received Israeli youth chess training systems before immigrating to Canada in 1999 at age 11 FIDE awarded him the title in January 2013 18 Hansen tied for 1st 5th places at the October 2012 American Continental Championship in Mar del Plata Argentina with Julio Granda Zuniga Alexander Shabalov Diego Flores and Gregory Kaidanov Since there were four qualifying places for the 2013 World Cup Hansen played a rapidplay playoff with the other four finishing fourth 19 In December he won the 2nd Panama Open scoring 8 9 20 21 In early 2013 Hansen tied for first place at the Cappelle la Grande Open in France 22 In July he shared first place in the Canadian Open in Ottawa with Nigel Short with both scoring 7 9 23 In the 2015 Canadian Zonal Championship Hansen shared first place with Leonid Gerzhoy and Tomas Krnan who was declared the winner on tiebreak 24 In the online tournament Airthings Masters in February 2022 Hansen defeated both the World Champion Magnus Carlsen and the 2021 s challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi in the preliminary rounds and qualified for the knockout phase 25 Online chess and streaming editHansen is predominantly a blitz and bullet player both over the board and online He has played at Internet Chess Club ICC Chess com ChessCube PlayChess com and lichess org For most of 2011 Hansen was recognized as the highest rated player on ChessCube com with a 3000 rating 26 By April 2012 he was recognized as the highest rated bullet player on Chess com He subsequently qualified for and accepted Chess com s Death Match 4 against then IM Conrad Holt who had the highest blitz rating The two were living in the same dorm on the University of Texas at Dallas campus 27 They were tied 4 4 after the first 8 rounds of 5 minute 1 second increment blitz games In the second round of 3 minute 1 second increment blitz games Holt pulled ahead 5 5 3 5 and he eventually won 15 11 28 Hansen is the main host of the Chessbrah chess channel on Twitch along with GM Aman Hambleton The channel occasionally features other brahs most of whom are titled players such as GM Yasser Seirawan GM Robin van Kampen GM Aryan Tari NM Elias Oussedik NM Omid Malek NM Eric Kurtz and FM Lefong Hua Stream highlights are often later posted on a YouTube account with the same name as the Twitch channel As of August 2023 both channels have about 320 000 followers subscribers each 29 30 In April 2021 the Chessbrah YouTube channel received copyright strikes from a multi channel network acting on the behalf of fellow Grandmaster and streamer Hikaru Nakamura leading Hansen to criticise Nakamura for the strikes and for his past behaviour in the broader chess community 31 32 Nakamura publicly apologized and retracted the copyright strikes indicating he would take a more active role in the management of his content and business 33 References edit Cohen David December 29 2018 Eric Hansen Canadian Chess Biographies Retrieved April 25 2023 IM title application PDF FIDE July 8 2010 Grand maitre 2 0 La Presse March 28 2016 Retrieved January 25 2021 Grand maitre 2 0 sportsnet 2015 Retrieved December 26 2021 29th Cappelle La Grande Open Sjugirov edges out pack Chess News March 4 2013 Retrieved April 7 2016 http www chesstalk info forum showthread php 9541 Eric Hansen Aman Hambleton BIG NEWS Chesstalk com announcement by GM Eric Hansen June 2013 Alberta Chess Report September 2008 PDF albertachess org Alberta Chess Review Retrieved June 14 2020 Alberta Chess Report June 2009 PDF Alberta Chess Report June 2011 PDF Alberta Chess Report August 2013 PDF von Keitz Michael May 17 2011 2011 Canadian Closed Chess Championship ChessBase Retrieved January 7 2016 Ficzere Tony May 13 2011 GM Sambuev wins the 2011 Canadian Closed Championship Susan Polgar Global Chess Daily News and Information Retrieved January 7 2016 Interview With Eric Hansen Of Canada YouTube Retrieved January 7 2016 The Week in Chess 923 theweekinchess com Retrieved January 25 2017 World Junior Championship GM Alex Ipatov is the winner ChessBase August 16 2012 GM Dmitry Svetushkin wins International Chess Tournament Isthmia 2012 Chessdom com August 27 2012 Retrieved January 7 2016 Title Applications 1st quarter PB 2013 Yerevan ARM 18 20 January 2013 FIDE Titles approved by the 1st quarter FIDE PB 2013 FIDE January 22 2013 Retrieved January 7 2016 Silver Albert October 23 2012 Mar del Plata 2012 The banana ate the monkey Chess News ChessBase Eric Hansen impressive in Panama Open Chessdom December 3 2012 Archived from the original on February 2 2017 Retrieved January 25 2017 L Ami Alina December 11 2012 2012 Panama Open IM Eric Hansen scores 2900 performance ChessBase 29th Cappelle la Grande Open 2013 The Week in Chess theweekinchess com Retrieved April 7 2016 Short wins 2013 Canadian Open Championship Chess News Chessbase com July 24 2013 Retrieved January 7 2016 IM Tomas Krnan wins Canadian Championship qu Chessdom alifies for World Chess Cup July 17 2015 Retrieved January 25 2017 Airthings Masters Prelims 2022 YouTube YouTube Retrieved January 7 2016 Blitz v Bullet in Death Match 4 Chess com April 28 2012 Retrieved January 7 2016 Holt Takes 4th Blitz Death Match Chess com April 28 2012 Retrieved January 7 2016 Chessbrah Twitch Chessbrah YouTube YouTube Marshall Cass April 12 2021 The chess grandmaster drama that led to a fistfight explained Polygon Retrieved June 2 2021 Dessel Josse April 11 2021 Hikaru Nakamura accused of striking Eric Hansen s YouTube channel WIN gg Retrieved June 2 2021 Johnson Nick April 13 2021 Hikaru Nakamura drops chessbae apologizes for YouTube strike WIN gg Retrieved June 2 2021 External links editEric Hansen rating card at FIDE nbsp Eric Hansen rating and tournament record at Chess Federation of Canada Eric Hansen Chess 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