Paul Svedenborg (born 1947) is a Norwegian chess player who won the Norwegian Chess Championship twice, in 1966 and 1967, representing the chess club in Narvik. This list of chess players depicts men and women who are primarily known as Chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia The Norwegian Chess Championship (NM i sjakk is an annual tournament held in Norway during the month of July in order to determine the national Chess champion Narvik ( Northern Sami: Narviika) is a town and municipality in the county of Nordland, Norway [1] He represented the Norwegian national team in the Chess Olympiads of 1964 in Tel Aviv, and 1968 in Lugano. The Chess Olympiad is a Biennial Chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other Tel Aviv-Yafo (תֵּל ־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ تل أبيب Tal ʾAbīb) (usually Tel Aviv) is the second-largest city in Israel Lugano ( Latin language: Luganum) is a town (52993 inhabitants a total of 130000 people in the agglomeration in the south of Switzerland, in the [2]
Svedenborg's style is marked by active play, where he played for development and space, even at the cost of pawn weaknesses.
In chess opening theory, Svedenborg has a variation named after him in the Latvian Gambit. In Chess the word " opening " has two common meanings both of which are discussed in this article The Latvian Gambit is an aggressive Chess opening, which often leads to wild and tricky positions After 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. Bc4 fxe4 4. Nxe5, Svedenborg demonstrated the viability of the central thrust 4. . . d5, which now bears his name. Although the move was known previously, it was Svedenborg who showed that Black's position remains playable after 5. Qh5+ g6 6. Nxg6 hxg6 7. Qxg6+ Kd7 (instead of the old Ke7). [3]
External links and references
- ^ List of Norwegian chess champions
- ^ ChessBase database
- ^ Kosten, Tony (2001). ChessBase is a German company that markets Chess software maintains a chess news site and operates a server for online chess The Latvian Gambit Lives!. Batsford. ISBN 0713486295.
- Fide rating card for Paul Svedenborg
- Feature of Paul Svedenborg Hosted by Tromsø's chess club, written by Gunnar Berg Hanssen
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