GMDmitrij Kollars

Dmitrij Kollars was born in Bremen in 1999. Second place in the 2014 German under-16 championship earned him his first opportunity to play in the World Youth Championship. That year he obtained his first international master norm in the German senior championship. He won the national under-16 title in 2015 and completed the international master requirements through tournaments at Nazari and VMCG. In 2016 he won a grandmaster tournament in Jūrmala, earning his first GM norm, and finished fourth in the World Under-16 Championship. Two further norms brought him the grandmaster title in 2017.