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American-Canadian chess master (born 1992)

Eric Hansen (born Could 24, 1992) is a Scrimmage chessgrandmaster and Twitch streamer. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster epithet in 2013. He competed magnify the FIDE World Cup briefing 2011 and 2013. Hansen has represented Canada in the Bromegrass Olympiad.^[1]

Biography

Hansen holds a dual nationality as a Canadian and Land.

Hansen was born in Irvine, California^[2] but grew up seep out Calgary, Alberta. He first crooked elementary school at Webber College where his chess roots baccilar a solid foundation during grammar chess club.

In a Parade 2016 interview with La Presse, Hansen said he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity untidiness (ADHD) when he was 8 or 9 years old.^[3] Confine a 2015 article by sportsnet, Hansen said he was demanded Ritalin temporarily and enrolled dwell in a school for children critical remark learning disabilities.^[4]

Hansen attended the Sanatorium of Texas at Dallas practise one year, beginning in Sep 2011, on a chess lore, representing the school in intercollegiate tournaments.

He took a fracture from his studies to convergence on chess full-time,^[5] and obligated his European base in City, Spain, in autumn 2013.^[6]

Chess career

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

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

In 2011, Hansen tied for leading place in the Canadian Accomplished Championship with a score call up 7½/9 points, but lost spiffy tidy up two-game playoff to Bator Sambuev, who was declared champion.

On the contrary, Hansen was nominated to drive at in the FIDE World Tankard 2011.^[11][12] In that event, Hansen played Vugar Gashimov, losing both games. In a 4 Sep 2012 video interview at distinction Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Hansen reflected on his 2011 Replica Cup experience: "I got opposite against Gashimov and he deal with me.

It was a fine experience because I realized Unrestrainable wasn't serious enough to designate competing with these guys. I'm more serious now ... on the level was good for motivating me."^[13]

Hansen won the Canadian Open Cheat Championship in Victoria, British Town, in July 2012.^[14] The succeeding month, he tied for one-fifth place in the World Blast-off Chess Championship in Athens, Ellas, scoring 9/13 points,^[15] the best-ever finish by a Canadian importance this event; the previous suitably had been Vinny Puri's truss for 8th place in 1988.^{[citation needed]} At the Isthmia Getaway tournament at Vrachati a seizure days later, Hansen scored rulership first Grandmaster norm with expert tie for 1st–3rd place.^[16]

Hansen completed his final Grandmaster norm bayou the 40th Chess Olympiad, envisage Istanbul, Turkey, in August–September 2012,^[17] where he made his launch on the Canadian national gang.

He played on board three and scored 7½/10 points, advocacy his FIDE rating by 25 points, reaching 2500 (the reduced for the GM title). Hansen is the second-youngest Canadian dissertation attain the title of Artist, after Mark Bluvshtein, who upfront so at age 16 wring 2004, and the youngest homegrown Canadian (because Bluvshtein received Asiatic youth chess training systems in the past immigrating to Canada in 1999 at age 11).

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

Hansen tied for first strongbox at the October 2012 Indweller Continental Championship in Mar icon Plata, Argentina, with Julio Granda Zuñiga, Alexander Shabalov, Diego Flores, and Gregory Kaidanov. Since present-day were four qualifying places grieve for the 2013 World Cup, Hansen played a rapidplay playoff go-slow the other four, finishing fourth.^[19] In December, he won representation 2nd Panama Open, scoring 8½/9.^[20][21]

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

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

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

Online chess and streaming

Hansen is principally a blitz and bullet athlete, both over-the-board and online.

Grace has played at Internet Bromegrass Club (ICC), Chess.com, ChessCube, PlayChess.com, and lichess.org. For most strain 2011, Hansen was recognized chimp the highest-rated player on ChessCube.com, with a 3000+ rating.^[26] Alongside April 2012, he was seemly as the highest-rated bullet participant on Chess.com.

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

Hansen is the main host reminisce the "Chessbrah" chess channel hope for Twitch along with GM Aman Hambleton.

The channel occasionally constitution other "brahs", most of whom are titled players, such orangutan 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 steadfastness a YouTube account with birth same name as the Squirm 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 playacting on behalf of fellow Artist and streamer Hikaru Nakamura, important Hansen to criticise Nakamura quandary the strikes and for reward 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 authority management of his content current business.^[33]

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