Lucas Brunner

{{Short description|Swiss chess grandmaster (born 1967)}}

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|country = {{ublist|West Germany (until 1990)|Switzerland (since 1990)}}

|birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|29 May 1967}}

|birth_place = Bern, Switzerland

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|title = Grandmaster (1994)

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|peakrating = 2535 (January 1995)

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Lucas Brunner (born 29 May 1967) is a Swiss chess grandmaster. He was Swiss Chess Champion in 1994.

Chess career

Brunner was born in Bern on 29 May 1967. He moved to West Germany as a child, where he won the German U20 Chess Championship and earned his international master title in 1986. He returned to Switzerland in 1990 and became the first Swiss-born grandmaster when he achieved the title in 1994. He also won the Swiss Chess Championship that year.[http://www.thechesspedia.com/brunner-lucas/ Brunner Lucas (29.05.1967)] Chesspedia He is the No. 9 ranked Swiss player as of February 2018.{{cite web|url=https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?ina=1&country=SUI|title=Federations Ranking - Switzerland|author=Staff writer(s)|publisher=FIDE|date=February 2018|access-date=2018-02-25|archive-date=2018-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706225708/http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?ina=1&country=SUI|url-status=dead}}

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