| Eric Jonsson | |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Birth Date: | 1 October 1903 |
Eric Jonsson (1 October 1903 – 1974) was a Swedish chess player.
Eric Jonsson was one of Sweden’s strongest chess players in the 1920s and 1930s. He was six-time Gothenburg chess champion (1925, 1926, 1928, 1935, 1936 and 1942). In 1937, Eric Jonsson played a small demonstration match with Reuben Fine (as part of the tour of the American chess grandmaster in Sweden) - ½: 1½. In 1948, with the Swedish national team, he participated in a number of international chess matches with the teams of Denmark and Norway.
Eric Jonsson has played for Sweden in the Chess Olympiads:[1]