| Igor Štohl | |
| Country: | Czechoslovakia Slovakia |
| Birth Date: | 27 September 1964 |
| Birth Place: | Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Grandmaster (1992) | |
| Peakrating: | 2600 (July 1999) |
| Fideid: | 14900025 |
Igor Štohl (born 27 September 1964) is a Slovak chess player who holds the titles of Grandmaster and Slovak Chess Championship winner (1984).
Igor Štohl learned to play chess at the age of 10. In 1982, in Copenhagen he won silver medal in World Junior Chess Championship after winner Andrei Sokolov. Two years later Igor Štohl won Slovak Chess Championship. In 1990 in Manila he participated in the World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournament where he was ranked in 23rd place.[1]
Igor Štohl is winner of many international chess tournaments, including winning or sharing first place in Trnava (1983), Starý Smokovec (1986, 1988), Hradec Králové (1988), Vrnjačka Banja (1989), Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (1991), Paul Keres Memorial Tournament (Vancouver, 1993), Vinkovci (1995), Stavanger (1998).
Igor Štohl played for Czechoslovakia and Slovakia in the Chess Olympiads:[2]
Igor Štohl played for Czechoslovakia and Slovakia in the European Team Chess Championships:[3]
In 1983, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title and in 1992 received the FIDE Grandmaster (GM) title.
Igor Štohl is a regular collaborator of ChessBase. He took, among others participation in the development of the monograph about Emanuel Lasker. Igor Štohl also published several chess books, including two dedicated to Garry Kasparov chess career.