Johan Hellsten

Who is Johan Hellsten?

Johan Hellsten is a Swedish chess grandmaster.

In 2006, he won the Swedish Chess Championship. He played for Sweden in the Chess Olympiads of 1996, 2004 and 2006 and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1997, 2003 and 2005. He tied for second–sixth with Laurent Fressinet, Vladimir Baklan, Robert Fontaine and Erik Van den Doel in the Abihome Open 2000 and tied for first with Dmitry Svetushkin and Marcin Szymanski in the Ikaros Chess Festival 2003.

In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2550, making him Sweden's number seven.