Bragi Thorfinnsson
{{Short description|Icelandic chess grandmaster (born 1981)}}
{{Icelandic name|Bragi}}
{{Infobox chess player
|name = Bragi Thorfinnsson
|image = Thorfinnsson,Bragi 2016 Dresden.jpeg
|caption = Bragi Þorfinnsson in 2016
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|country = Iceland
|birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|10 April 1981}}
|birth_place = Reykjavík, Iceland
|death_date =
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|title = Grandmaster (2018)
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|rating =
|peakrating = 2493 (June 2013)
|FideID = 2300958
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Bragi Thorfinnsson (born 10 April 1981) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster.{{cite web|url =https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2018/04/09/bragi_thorfinnsson_stormeistari_i_skak/|title =Bragi Þorfinnsson stórmeistari í skák|website =Morgunblaðið|author =Ómar Óskarsson|date =9 April 2018|language =Icelandic}}{{cite web|url =http://www.ruv.is/frett/bragi-thorfinnsson-ordinn-stormeistari|title =Bragi Þorfinnsson orðinn stórmeistari|publisher =RÚV|author =Runólfur Trausti Þórhallsson|date =9 April 2018|language =Icelandic}}
Chess career
Born in 1981, Bragi earned his international master title in 2003. He achieved his first grandmaster norm at the Four Nations Chess League 2012–13, scoring 6½/9 for the Jutes of Kent. He also reached an Elo rating of 2500 after six rounds of this event.{{cite web|url =http://www.ruv.is/frett/bragi-thorfinnsson-med-stormeistaraafanga|title =Bragi Þorfinnsson með stórmeistaraáfanga|author =Staff writer(s)|publisher =RÚV|date =8 May 2013|language =Icelandic}} He earned the second norm at the 2016–17 Icelandic Team Chess Championship, scoring 7/9, and his final norm at the Kragerø Resort Chess – a tournament in February 2018, scoring 7/9. He was awarded his grandmaster title by FIDE in April 2018,[https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=2300958&title=GM&pb=51&reff=0 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2018, April 6-9, Minsk, Belarus] FIDE becoming the fourteenth and—at age 36—oldest Icelander to achieve the title.{{cite web|url =http://www.dv.is/fokus/folk/2018/03/02/bragi-fjortandi-elsti-stormeistari-islandssogunnar/|title =Bragi fjórtándi – elsti stórmeistari Íslandssögunnar|author =Björn Thorfinnsson|website =DV|date =2 March 2018|language =Icelandic}}{{cite web|url =https://www.frettabladid.is/lifid/skrifai-frett-um-rigmontinn-litla-brour-sinn|title =Skrifaði frétt um "rígmontinn" litla bróður sinn|author =Baldur Guðmundsson|website =Fréttablaðið|date =2 March 2018|language =Icelandic}}
He is the no. 10 ranked Icelandic player as of September 2020.{{cite web|url=https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?ina=1&country=ISL|title=Federations Ranking – Iceland|author=Staff writer(s)|publisher=FIDE|date=March 2018|access-date=2018-03-28|archive-date=2017-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171124021509/https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?ina=1&country=ISL|url-status=dead}}
Personal life
Bragi is the younger brother of international master and journalist Björn Thorfinnsson. Bragi is not a professional chess player, and works full-time as a school teacher. He is married and has three children.
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External links
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