IMToivo Keinanen

Toivo Keinänen started chess in second grade, joining friends at a weekly school club when he was about eight. He became a FIDE master in 2016 and an international master in 2019. That year, he won the Finnish Championship. In a federation interview, he emphasized enjoyment of the game and said chess had taught him to concentrate. In 2021, he won Finland's national rapid and blitz titles. He also finished eighth in both the European Rapid and European Blitz Championships that December. In 2023, he married fellow international player Anastasia Keinänen, formerly Nazarova.