{{short description|Austrian chess player}} {{Infobox chess biography |image=Stanec,Nikolaus 2015 Wien.JPG |country=Austria |birth_date={{bda|29 April 1968}} |birth_place=Vienna, Austria |title=Grandmaster (2003) |FideID= 1601776 |peakrating=2568 (October 2005) }} '''Nikolaus Stanec''' (born 29 April 1968, Vienna) is an Austrian chess Grandmaster (2003).
He won the Austrian Chess Championship ten times in the period 1995–2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chess.at/archiv/staatsm.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-01-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090731212021/http://www.chess.at/archiv/staatsm.htm |archivedate=2009-07-31 }}</ref> He also represented Austria in the Chess Olympiads of 1994 and 1996,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/ |title=Home |website=olimpbase.org}}</ref> and in the European Team Chess Championship at Pula 1997.
In 2019, he won the 2nd Vienna Christmas Open with 6/7 points.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Week in Chess 1311|url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic1311.html#32|access-date=2020-07-09|website=theweekinchess.com}}</ref>
Awarded the International Master title in 1991, and the Grandmaster title in 2003.
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