Jonas Buhl Bjerre | |
Country: | Denmark |
Birth Date: | 2004 6, df=y |
Grandmaster (2019) | |
Peakrating: | 2653 (May 2024) |
Peakranking: | No. 75 (July 2024) |
Fideid: | 1444948 |
Jonas Buhl Bjerre (born 26 June 2004) is a Danish chess grandmaster.
In 2015, Jonas Buhl Bjerre won the Nordic Youth Chess Championship in the group E (for players born in 2004 and 2005).[1] The next year he won the group D.[2] Bjerre won a gold medal at the 2017 European Youth Chess Championships, held in Mamaia, in the U14 category.[3] The next year, in Riga, he took the bronze medal in the same division.[4]
In July 2018, Bjerre was awarded the title of international master by FIDE.[5] A few months later he played for the Danish national team, on the reserve board, in the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi (+4, =4, -1).[6] He tied for first place with Allan Stig Rasmussen in the Danish championship 2019 and lost the playoff match.[7] Bjerre achieved his final norm for the title of grandmaster at the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2019 to become the youngest Dane ever to achieve this title.[8] FIDE awarded him the title in March 2020.[9]
Bjerre participated in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2022 Challengers group where he finished 3rd with a score of 8.5 / 13.[10]