Toms Kantāns Explained
Toms Kantāns |
Country: | Latvia |
Birth Date: | 1994 1, df=y |
Birth Place: | Riga, Latvia |
Grandmaster (2017) |
Peakrating: | 2541 (August 2017) |
Fideid: | 11602945 |
Toms Kantāns (born 16 January 1994) is a Latvian chess grandmaster (2017), Latvian Chess Championship winner (2023).
Biography
Kantāns started playing chess at the age of six.[1] He has been a Latvian Youth Chess Champion in different age groups, and regularly participated in the European Youth and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups. In 2007, he won silver medal in European Union Youth Championship in the U14 age group,[2] but in 2008 in this same tournament won bronze medal.[3] Since 2009, Toms Kantans has regularly participated in the Latvian Chess Championships. Best results – 1st place (2023),[4] 2nd place (2015, 2017) and 3rd place (2010, 2014). He is multiple winner of Latvian Team Chess Championship with Riga Technical University team (2010, 2012, 2015). In August 2022, Kantāns finished second in the Riga Technical University Open "A" tournament.[5] In June 2023, in Montreal, he won the international chess tournament Canadian Transnational 2023 - Classic Crown.[6]
Kantāns played for Latvia team:
In 2014, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title[11] and received the FIDE International Grandmaster (GM) title three years later.[12]
Personal life
In 2015, Kantāns married Polish chess master Anna Iwanow (born 1995).[13]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Interview with Toms Kantans. chessnews.lv. 13 April 2019. 15 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180115145031/http://chessnews.lv/interview-with-toms-kantans/. dead.
- Web site: Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – U14 5. European Union Youth Championship. chess-results.com.
- Web site: Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – U14 6. European Union Youth Championship. chess-results.com.
- https://chess-results.com/tnr754280.aspx?lan=1&art=4&flag=30 Latvian Men's Chess Championship 2023
- Web site: Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Riga Technical University Open 2022 - Tournament A. chess-results.com.
- https://chess-results.com/tnr777508.aspx?lan=1&art=4&fed=LAT&turdet=YES&flag=30 Canadian Transnational 2023 - Classic Crown
- Web site: OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Toms Kantāns. www.olimpbase.org.
- Web site: Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open. chess-results.com.
- Web site: OlimpBase :: European Men's Team Chess Championship :: Toms Kantāns. www.olimpbase.org.
- Web site: Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – 27 World Summer Universiade M. chess-results.com.
- Web site: FIDE Title Applications (GM, IM, WGM, WIM, IA, FA, IO). Administrator. ratings.fide.com.
- Web site: FIDE Title Applications (GM, IM, WGM, WIM, IA, FA, IO). Administrator. ratings.fide.com.
- Web site: SZACHARNIA 2008 : Kolejne międzynarodowe, szachowe małżeństwo. W rolach głównych nasza Ania Iwanow i Toms Kantans z Łotwy. Niech Wam się wiedzie!!. Szacharnia. 2015.