- Jaan Ehlvest
Infobox chess player
playername = Jaan Ehlvest
caption=
birthname = Jaan Ehlvest
country = EST USA USSR
datebirth = birth date and age|1962|10|14
placebirth =Tallinn ,Estonia
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = Grandmaster
worldchampion =
womensworldchampion =
rating = 2601
(No. 94 on the July 2007 FIDE ratings list)
peakrating = 2660 (January 1996)Jaan Ehlvest (born
14 October 1962 atTallinn inEstonia ) is achess player. He was made a Grandmaster in 1987 and was Estonian sportsman of the year in 1987 and 1989.On the April 2005
FIDE list, Ehlvest had anElo rating of 2614, placing him just outside the world's top one hundred and making him Estonia's number one, but he has been ranked in the world top twenty.Jaan Ehlvest's brother
Jüri Ehlvest was a well-known writer in Estonia.Biography
Ehlvest's tournament victories include the 1983 European Junior Championship, the 1986 Estonian Championship, the 1994 New York Open, and the 2003 World Open. When SK Rockaden won the 2001 Swedish championship they fielded Ehlvest. [ [http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/chess/chessdaily0401.html "Rockaden win Swedish league"] , Mind Sports Worldwide, 25 March 2001]
Ehlvest studied psychology at
Tartu State University. In 2004, Ehlvest published his autobiography, "The Story of a Chess Player". In 2006, unsatisfied with the lack of support from the Estonian Chess Federation, Ehlvest decided to move toUnited States . Since then he is a member of USCF and competes internationally for US. However, he is not an American citizen. [cite news
title = Jaan Ehlvest: pidanuksin Eestist varem lahkuma
url = http://sport.postimees.ee/070406/esileht/sport/197267.php
publisher =Postimees
date = 2006-04-07
accessdate = 2008-03-04
language = Estonian]In March 2007, Ehlvest accepted an invitation to play an unusual 8-game match against the chess program
Rybka , one of the strongest chess programs in existence. He was playing black in all games, but was given a pawn odds (Rybka was playing each game a pawn down; different white pawn was removed in each game). He lost the match 2.5:5.5 (+1-4=3). In a following rematch, the pawn odds were removed, Ehlvest was given white every game, twice the time on the clock, and significant computational handicaps were placed on the machine. Ehlvest lost decisively 1.5:4.5.Further reading
*cite book | author=Ehlvest, Jaan | title=The Story of a Chess Player | publisher=Arbiter Publishing | year=2004 | id=ISBN 0-9763891-0-X
References
External links
* [http://www.ehlvest.net Jaan Ehlvest's official website] contains many of his annotated games and articles
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*chessgames player|id=10065
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