Nikolaus Stanec | |
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Country | Austria |
Born | Vienna, Austria | April 29, 1968
Title | Grandmaster (2003) |
FIDE rating | 2466 (September 2023) |
Peak rating | 2568 (October 2005) |
Nikolaus Stanec (born 29 April 1968, Vienna) is an Austrian chess Grandmaster (2003).
He won the Austrian Chess Championship ten times in the period 1995–2005. [1] He also represented Austria in the Chess Olympiads of 1994 and 1996, [2] and in the European Team Chess Championship at Pula 1997.
In 2019, he won the 2nd Vienna Christmas Open with 6/7 points. [3]
Awarded the International Master title in 1991, and the Grandmaster title in 2003.
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