{{Short description|Estonian chess player}} {{Infobox chess player | name = Mark Lapidus | image = | caption = | full_name = <!-- if different --> | country = {{EST}} | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|27 December 1995}} | birth_place = Tallinn, Estonia | death_date = | death_place = | title = <!-- no FIDE rating --> | rating = [https://ratings.fide.com/profile/4502299/chart 2254] (September 2019) | peakrating = 2272 (April 2019) | FideID = 4502299 <!-- automatically displays current rating if 2400+ --> }}
'''Mark Lapidus''' (born 27 December 1995) is an Estonian chess player who won the Estonian Chess Championship in 2012.
==Chess career== Mark Lapidus won the Estonian Junior Chess Championships (U16) in 2009 and 2011.<ref>[http://www.sport24.ee/index.php?ac=otsinimidet&id=11061&#tulemusedlist Mark Lapidus]</ref> From 2004 he participated in the European Junior Chess Championships and the World Junior Chess Championships in different age groups. He won an IM norm at the World Junior Championship (2012).<ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=78588&pid=139032 World Junior Championship (2012)]</ref>
In the Estonian Chess Championship Mark Lapidus has won gold medal (2012).<ref>[http://news.err.ee/v/sports/d60d0ce5-1e6f-4c67-8ce3-06df485cb453 Mark Lapidus, 16, Crowned Estonian Chess Champion]</ref>
Mark Lapidus played for Estonia in Chess Olympiads:<ref>[http://www.olimpbase.org/players/5dbjbbrd.html Men's Chess Olympiads :: Mark Lapidus]</ref> * In 2012, at second board in the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (+2, =2, -4).
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{FIDE}} * {{Chessgames player|139032}} * {{365Chess.com player|Mark_Lapidus}}
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