Hannes Stefánsson

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Hannes.

Hannes Hlífar Stefánsson (born 18 July 1972) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster. He has won the Icelandic Chess Championship a record thirteen times.

Hannes Stefansson
Hannes Stefansson, 2008
Full name	Hannes Hlífar Stefánsson
Country	Iceland
Born	(1972-07-18) 18 July 1972 (age 53) Reykjavík, Iceland
Title	Grandmaster (1993)
FIDE rating	2421 (August 2025)
Peak rating	2604 (January 2002)
Peak ranking	No. 83 (January 2002)

Chess career

Born in 1972, Hannes won the World U16 Chess Championship in 1987. He won the Acropolis International in 1993.^[1] He tied for first to third in the Reykjavik Open in 1994, together with Pigusov and Zvjagintsev and tied for 1st–4th with Hedinn Steingrimsson, Yuriy Kryvoruchko and Mihail Marin in the Reykjavik Open tournament 2009.^[2] He won the International chess tournament Open Teplice 2015 in the Czech Republic.^[3] He is the No. 1 ranked Icelandic player as of September 2023.^[update][4]