Tiger Hillarp Persson

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Tiger Hillarp Persson
Tiger Hillarp Persson
Full name Hillarp Persson, Tiger
Country Flag of Sweden Sweden
Born October 28, 1970 (1970-10-28) (age 37)
Malmö, Sweden
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2491
Peak rating 2568

Tiger Hillarp Persson (born 28 October 1970) is a Swedish chess Grandmaster.

He won tournaments in Gentofte (VISA Nordic Grand Prix, ahead of Sune Berg Hansen, Simen Agdestein, Einar Gausel, Helgi Grétarsson, Heikki Westerinen and more) and York in 1999, Jersey (2000), Guernsey (2001). He finished second in the Nordic Championship in Vammala, Finland (2005), and won the 2007 Swedish Chess Championship. In 2008 he was the winner of the Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in his hometown of Malmö with an impressive 7½ points.

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