Eric Hansen - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

Explore Eric Hansen net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Chess grandmaster who began representing Canada in the Chess Olympiad since 2012. He is popular on Twitch, where he plays virtual chess games and analyzes the results for 140,000 followers on the chessbrah channel. In this article, we will discover how old is Eric Hansen? Who is Eric Hansen dating now & how much money does Eric Hansen have?

Eric Hansen Biography

Eric Hansen is one of the most popular and richest Chess Player who was born on May 24, 1992 in Irvine, California, United States. He played against Nigel Short at the 2013 Canadian Open.

Hansen began playing chess in grade school at the age of nine. By the age of 15, in 2008, Hansen became the youngest ever Alberta champion and earned the title FIDE Master (FM). He repeated as Alberta champion in 2009, 2011 and 2013.

Hansen is a strong blitz and bullet player, both over-the-board and online. He has been spotted playing at Internet Chess Club (ICC), Chess.com, ChessCube, PlayChess.com, and lichess.org. For most of 2011, Hansen was recognized as the highest-rated player on ChessCube.com, with a 3000+ rating. By April 2012, he was recognized as the highest-rated bullet player on Chess.com. He subsequently qualified for and accepted Chess.com’s Death-Match 4 against then-IM Conrad Holt, who had the highest-rated blitz rating. The two were living in the same dorm building on the University of Texas at Dallas campus. The two were tied 4-4 after the first 8 rounds of 5 minute + 1 second increment blitz games. In the second round of 3 minute + 1 second increment blitz games, Holt pulled ahead 5.5-3.5, and eventually won 15-11.

He has one brother and one sister.

He has taken first-place finishes at tournaments like the 2012 Canadian Open Chess Championship and the 2013 Cappelle-la-Grande Open.

Eric Hansen (born May 24, 1992) is a Canadian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2013. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2011 and 2013. Hansen has represented Canada in the Chess Olympiad since 2012.

Eric Hansen Net Worth

Eric is one of the richest Chess Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Eric Hansen's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

He spent the majority of his childhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He briefly attended the University of Texas at Dallas on a chess scholarship.

In 2011, Hansen tied for first place in the Canadian Closed Championship with a score of 7½/9 points, but lost a two-game playoff to Bator Sambuev, who was declared champion. Nevertheless, Hansen was nominated to play in the FIDE World Cup 2011. In this event, Hansen played Vugar Gashimov, losing both games. In a September 4, 2012, video interview at the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Hansen reflected on his 2011 World Cup experience: “I got paired against Gashimov and he killed me,” he said. “It was a good experience because I realized I wasn’t serious enough to be competing with these guys. I’m more serious now … it was good for motivating me.”

In early 2013, Hansen tied for first place at the Cappelle-la-Grande Open in France. In July he shared first place in the Canadian Open in Ottawa with Nigel Short, with both scoring unbeaten 7½/9.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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He won the Canadian Open Chess Championship, held in Victoria, British Columbia, in July 2012. The following month, Hansen tied for 5th–10th places in the World Junior Chess Championship, held in Athens, Greece. He scored 9/13 points, achieving the best-ever finish by a Canadian in this event; the previous best had been Vinny Puri’s tie for 8th place in 1988. At the Isthmia Open tournament at Vrachati, which began a few days later, Hansen scored his first norm for the title Grandmaster (GM), with a tie for 1st–3rd places.

Who is Eric Hansen Dating?

According to our records, Eric Hansen is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of January 13, 2024, Eric Hansen’s is not dating anyone.

Hansen tied for 1st–5th places at the American Continental Championship 2012, held in October in Mar del Plata, Argentina, with Julio Granda Zuñiga, Alexander Shabalov, Diego Flores and Gregory Kaidanov. Since there were four qualifying places for the 2013 World Cup, Hansen played a rapidplay playoff with the mentioned players finishing fourth. In December, he won the 2nd Panama Open, scoring 8½/9.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Hansen attended the University of Texas at Dallas for one year, beginning in September 2011, on a chess scholarship, representing the school in intercollegiate tournaments. He took a break from his studies to focus on chess full-time in the immediate future, and made his European base in Valencia, Spain, in the autumn of 2013.

He achieved the final norm required for the GM title in the 40th Chess Olympiad, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in August–September 2012, where he made his debut in the Canadian national team. He played on board four and scored 7½/10 points, boosting his FIDE rating by 25 points, reaching 2500 (the minimum for the GM title). Hansen is the second youngest Canadian to attain the title of Grandmaster, after Mark Bluvshtein, who reached it at age 16 in 2004, and the youngest homegrown Canadian (since Bluvshtein received Israeli youth chess training systems before immigrating to Canada in 1999 at age 11). FIDE awarded him the title in January 2013.

Facts & Trivia

Eric Ranked on the list of most popular Chess Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Eric Hansen celebrates birthday on May 24 of every year.

Since April 2015, Hansen has been active on lichess under the alias “chessbrahs”, where he mostly plays bullet games.

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What happened to Eric Hansen?

A Cleveland, Ohio native and a graduate of Ohio State University, Hansen has covered college sports since 1983. He was managing editor of the Irish Sports Report, a publication about Notre Dame sports, for seven years. He currently resides in South Bend, Indiana with his two sons.

How old is Eric Hansen?

30 years (May 24, 1992)

When did Eric Hansen start playing chess?

Hansen learned how to play chess when he was nine years old. He earned the FIDE master title at age 15 and became the youngest Alberta champion in history.

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