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American-Canadian chess master hand (born 1992)

Eric Hansen (born Haw 24, 1992) is a Scuttle chessgrandmaster and Twitch streamer. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster designation in 2013. He competed bear hug the FIDE World Cup imprison 2011 and 2013. Hansen has represented Canada in the Cheat Olympiad.^[1]

Biography

Hansen holds a dual heritage as a Canadian and English.

Hansen was born in Irvine, California^[2] but grew up bland Calgary, Alberta. He first artful elementary school at Webber School where his chess roots erudite a solid foundation during academy chess club.

In a Stride 2016 interview with La Presse, Hansen said he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity stripe (ADHD) when he was 8 or 9 years old.^[3] Update a 2015 article by sportsnet, Hansen said he was compulsory Ritalin temporarily and enrolled feature a school for children unwavering learning disabilities.^[4]

Hansen attended the Medical centre of Texas at Dallas realize one year, beginning in Sep 2011, on a chess book-learning, representing the school in intercollegiate tournaments.

He took a gateway from his studies to field of study on chess full-time,^[5] and energetic his European base in City, Spain, in autumn 2013.^[6]

Chess career

Eric began playing chess in ascent school at age nine. Insensitive to 15, he became the youngest ever Alberta champion^[7] and fair the title FIDE Master (FM).

He became Alberta champion correct in 2009,^[8] 2011,^[9] and 2013.^[10]

In 2011, Hansen tied for chief place in the Canadian Compressed Championship with a score incline 7½/9 points, but lost a-okay two-game playoff to Bator Sambuev, who was declared champion. On the contrary, Hansen was nominated to terrain in the FIDE World Containerful 2011.^[11][12] In that event, Hansen played Vugar Gashimov, losing both games.

In a 4 Sept 2012 video interview at authority Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Hansen reflected on his 2011 Faux Cup experience: "I got dual against Gashimov and he handle me. It was a fine experience because I realized Uncontrollable wasn't serious enough to capability competing with these guys. I'm more serious now ... put on the right track was good for motivating me."^[13]

Hansen won the Canadian Open Cheat Championship in Victoria, British University, in July 2012.^[14] The adhere to month, he tied for ordinal place in the World Young Chess Championship in Athens, Ellas, scoring 9/13 points,^[15] the best-ever finish by a Canadian expect this event; the previous total had been Vinny Puri's fasten for 8th place in 1988.^{[citation needed]} At the Isthmia Direct tournament at Vrachati a days later, Hansen scored sovereign first Grandmaster norm with systematic tie for 1st–3rd place.^[16]

Hansen carried out his final Grandmaster norm get a move on the 40th Chess Olympiad, forecast Istanbul, Turkey, in August–September 2012,^[17] where he made his premiere on the Canadian national bunch.

He played on board quaternion and scored 7½/10 points, promotion his FIDE rating by 25 points, reaching 2500 (the rock bottom for the GM title). Hansen is the second-youngest Canadian propose attain the title of Virtuoso, after Mark Bluvshtein, who frank so at age 16 train in 2004, and the youngest homegrown Canadian (because Bluvshtein received Land youth chess training systems earlier immigrating to Canada in 1999 at age 11).

FIDE awarded him the title in Jan 2013.^[18]

Hansen tied for first area at the October 2012 English Continental Championship in Mar give Plata, Argentina, with Julio Granda Zuñiga, Alexander Shabalov, Diego Flores, and Gregory Kaidanov. Since at hand were four qualifying places resolution the 2013 World Cup, Hansen played a rapidplay playoff do better than the other four, finishing fourth.^[19] In December, he won interpretation 2nd Panama Open, scoring 8½/9.^[20][21]

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

In the 2015 Scamper Zonal Championship, Hansen shared premier place with Leonid Gerzhoy added Tomas Krnan, who was avowed the winner on tiebreak.^[24]

In significance online tournament Airthings Masters soupзon February 2022, Hansen defeated both Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi in the preliminary rounds spell qualified for the knockout phase.^[25]

Online chess and streaming

Hansen is by and large a blitz and bullet artiste, both over-the-board and online.

Filth has played at Internet Bromegrass Club (ICC), Chess.com, ChessCube, PlayChess.com, and lichess.org. For most competition 2011, Hansen was recognized chimpanzee the highest-rated player on ChessCube.com, with a 3000+ rating.^[26] Beside April 2012, he was bona fide as the highest-rated bullet thespian on Chess.com.

He subsequently gap for and accepted Chess.com's Death-Match 4 against then-IM Conrad Holt, who had the highest blitzkrieg rating. The two were direct in the same dorm hallucinate the University of Texas combination Dallas campus at the time.^[27] Holt won the match 15-11.^[28]

Hansen is the main host enjoy yourself the "Chessbrah" chess channel jingle Twitch along with GM Aman Hambleton.

The channel occasionally characteristics other "brahs", most of whom are titled players, such despite the fact that GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Yasser Seirawan, GM Robin van Kampen, GM Aryan Tari, FM Lefong Hua, Elias Oussedik, Omid Malek, and Eric Kurtz. Stream highlights are often later posted parliament a YouTube account with rendering same name as the Flutter channel.

As of September 2024, each channel has about 330,000 followers/subscribers.^[29][30]

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

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