| Kaido Külaots | |
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at the Dresden Olympiad, 2008 |
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| Full name | Kaido Külaots |
| Country | Estonia |
| Born | February 28, 1976 |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2609 (July 2011) |
Kaido Külaots (born February 28, 1976) is an Estonian chess Grandmaster (2001).
He won Estonian Chess Championship in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010 and played for Estonia in the Chess Olympiads of 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010.[1]
He tied for 1st–2nd with Evgeny Alekseev at Kharkiv 2003[2] and with Vladislav Nevednichy at Paks 2003,[3] tied for 1st–6th with Evgeniy Najer, Artyom Timofeev, Zoltan Gyimesi, Sergey Grigoriants and Oleg Korneev at the Cappelle-la-Grande Open 2004,[4] tied for 1st–2nd with Artjom Smirnov at the Paul Keres Chess Festival in Tallinn 2004,[5] came 2nd behind Sergei Tiviakov and ahead of Oleg Korneev at the Gausdal Classics 2005,[6] came 1st at the Heart of Finland Open in Jyvaeskylae 2008,[7] tied for 1st–3rd with Robert Ruck and Gabor Papp at the 1st Gedeon Barcza Memorial 2008,[8] and won the 1st Festival Yvette 2010.[9]
According to Chessmetrics, at his peak in August 2004 Külaots play was equivalent to a rating of 2584, and he was ranked number 146 in the world. His best single performance was at the Liepajas Rokade Liepaya tournament, 2004, where he scored 8 of 11 possible points (73%) against 2552-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2671.[10]