Jonny Hector

Jonny Hector (born 13 February 1964) is a Swedish chess grandmaster.

Jonny Hector
Full name	Jonny Hector
Country	Sweden
Born	(1964-02-13) February 13, 1964 Malmö , Sweden
Title	Grandmaster (1991) ICCF Grandmaster (1999)
FIDE rating	2485 (February 2021)
Peak rating	2590 (October 2002)

Born in Malmö, Sweden, Hector has lived in Denmark for many years. He learned chess at the relatively late age of 14, but quickly became a very strong player. In 1987 he was equal first in the strong Cappelle-la-Grande open (with Anthony Kosten and Anatoly Vaisser).

In 2002 he won the Swedish championship at Skara.[1]

He has reached a tie in 1st place in the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen four times. In 2000, he tied with Boris Gulko and Lars Bo Hansen.[2] In 2006, he tied with Vadim Malakhatko and Nigel Short.[3] In 2008, he tied with Sergei Tiviakov, Vladimir Malakhov, Yuriy Kuzubov, Peter Heine Nielsen, and Boris Savchenko.[4] In 2012, he tied with Ivan Sokolov and Ivan Cheparinov.[5]

He has an aggressive attacking style, and is known for playing unusual chess openings. He is also an International Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess (1999).[6]