Hans Tikkanen

Hans Tikkanen
Hans Tikkanen
	Hans Tikkanen, 2016
Full name	Hans Christian Tikkanen
Country	Sweden
Born	6 February 1985 (age 39); Karlstad, Sweden
Title	Grandmaster (2010)
FIDE rating	2475 (November 2024)
Peak rating	2596 (July 2011)

Hans Christian Tikkanen (born 6 February 1985 in Karlstad) is a Swedish chess grandmaster.^[1] He is a five-time Swedish Chess Champion.

Chess career

He won the Swedish Junior Chess Championship in 2002.^[2] In 2010 he won the Lithuanian University of Agriculture Cup in Kaunas^[3] and tied for 3rd–6th with Sarunas Sulskis, Tiger Hillarp Persson and Kaido Kulaots at Borup.^[4] In 2012, he came second in the Group C of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee,^[5] and shared first place with Slavko Cicak and Emanuel Berg at the Västerås Open.^[6] He played for Sweden in the European Team Chess Championships of 2005 (in team 3), 2011 and 2013^[7]

In the January 2012 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2549, making him Sweden's seventh highest ranked player.

Tikkanen is co-author with Axel Smith of the chess training book The Woodpecker Method (Quality Chess, 2018).

Tikkanen played besides his chess career, active football in the Swedish Division 5 Sydvästra B club Hallands Nations FF.^[8]

Tikkanen is of Finnish descent through his Finnish-born father.^[9]

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^ "Lithuanian University of Agriculture CUP November 2010 Lithuania". FIDE. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
^ "5. XtraCon i Skovbo 2010 GM-turnering November 2010 Denmark". FIDE. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
^ "Wijk aan Zee Rd13 Aronian is sole winner!". ChessBase.com. 2012-01-29. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Västerås Open 2012". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
^ "European Men's Team Chess Championship: Hans Tikkanen". OlimpBase. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
^ "Hans Tikkanen Hallands Nations FF". Laget. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
^ Smith, Axel (20 May 2010). "Intervju med Hans Tikkanen" (in Swedish). Lunds ASK. Retrieved 10 December 2019. Min far är finsk, men kom till Sverige som väldigt liten.