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GM Johann Hjartarson

Full name

Johann Hjartarson

Born

1/1/1963 (age 61)‎

Place of birth

Federation

Iceland

Rating

Bio

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

English Opening: King's English Variation (19 games)

Bogo-Indian Defense: Grünfeld Variation (13 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Classical, Richter-Rauzer Variation (13 games)

Sicilian Defense: Taimanov, Bastrikov Variation (11 games)

Closed Sicilian Defense: Fianchetto Variation (10 games)

Black Pieces

Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto, Nimzowitsch Variation, Quiet, Check Variation, Intermezzo Line (18 games)

Modern Defense with 1.e4 (16 games)

Ruy López Opening: Morphy Defense, Keres, Flohr-Zaitsev System (16 games)

Modern Defense: Standard Line (15 games)

Sicilian Defense: Taimanov, Bastrikov Variation (14 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Johann Hjartarson (2460) Harry Li (2107)	1-0	30	2024
Johann Hjartarson (2453) Stephen Dishman (2294)	1-0	83	2024
Johann Hjartarson (2453) Csaba Csiszar (2366)	1-0	40	2024
Johann Hjartarson (2453) Martin Mrva (2365)	1-0	35	2024
Johann Hjartarson (2453) Christof Sielecki (2403)	1-0	27	2024
Johann Hjartarson (2472) Dirk Lampe (2158)	1-0	45	2024
Johann Hjartarson (2652) Casper Liu (2539)	1-0	27	2024
Johann Hjartarson (2460) Paulius Pultinevicius (2575)	0-1	60	2024
Johann Hjartarson (2648) Vuk Damjanovic (2852)	0-1	53	2024
Johann Hjartarson (2650) Evgeny Alekseev (2906)	0-1	56	2024

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