Nikolaus Stanec

{{short description|Austrian chess player}}

{{Infobox chess biography

|image=Stanec,Nikolaus 2015 Wien.JPG

|country=Austria

|birth_date={{bda|29 April 1968}}

|birth_place=Vienna, Austria

|title=Grandmaster (2003)

|FideID= 1601776

|peakrating=2568 (October 2005)

}}

Nikolaus Stanec (born 29 April 1968, Vienna) is an Austrian chess Grandmaster (2003).

He won the Austrian Chess Championship ten times in the period 1995–2005.{{cite web |url=http://www.chess.at/archiv/staatsm.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-01-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090731212021/http://www.chess.at/archiv/staatsm.htm |archivedate=2009-07-31 }} He also represented Austria in the Chess Olympiads of 1994 and 1996,{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/ |title=Home |website=olimpbase.org}} and in the European Team Chess Championship at Pula 1997.

In 2019, he won the 2nd Vienna Christmas Open with 6/7 points.{{Cite web|title=The Week in Chess 1311|url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic1311.html#32|access-date=2020-07-09|website=theweekinchess.com}}

Awarded the International Master title in 1991, and the Grandmaster title in 2003.