Nordic Chess Championship Explained

The Nordic Chess Championship (Nordiska Schackkongressen) is a biennal chess tournament which determines the champion of the Nordic countries. The first edition took place in Stockholm in 1897.^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

History

The winners in the Nordic Championship in 1934 and 1936, Aron Nimzowitsch and Erik Lundin, got the Nordiske kongresmestre title, as the champion of 1930, Erik Andersen, defended his title with 3–3 against Gideon Ståhlberg at Copenhagen 1934 and lost it by 2½–3½ against Erik Lundin at Copenhagen 1937.

Several of the Nordic Championship have been arranged as part of an open tournament, where the best placed player from a Nordic country becomes Nordic champion even if that person did not win the event. For example, the Nordic Champion of 2011, Jon Ludvig Hammer, finished fifth in the Reykjavik Open that doubled as the Nordic Championship since the four players who finished ahead of him were from Ukraine, the Netherlands, and Poland and were thus ineligible for the Nordic Champion title.

Winners

	Year	City	Nordic champion
1	1897
2	1899
3	1901
4	1903
5	1905
6	1907
7	1909
8	1912
9	1916
10	1917
11	1919
12	1924
13	1928
14	1929
15	1930
16	1934		*)
)	1934
17	1936		*)
)	1937
18	1938
19	1939
20	1946
21	1947
22	1948
23	1950
24	1953
25	1955
26	1957
27	1959
28	1961
29	1963
30	1965
31	1967	Hangö
32	1969
33	1971
34	1973
35	1975
36	1977
37	1979
38	1981
39	1983
40	1985
41	1987
42	1989
43	1992
44	1995
45	1997
46	1999
47	2001		^[4]
48	2003		^[5]
49	2005		^[6]
50	2007		^[7]
51	2009		^[8]
52	2011		^[9]
53	2013		^[10]
54	2016
55	2017
56	2019
57	2022

Notes and References

Web site: Stadgar . PDF . 2012-01-06.
Web site: Thorbjørn Rosenlund . foraer . Dsu9604.dsu.dk . 2012-01-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120207090436/http://dsu9604.dsu.dk/nmny/100gb/gb-nm100.htm . 2012-02-07 .
Web site: ShakkiNet – shakkipeli/historia2 . Shakki.net . 2001-06-21 . 2012-01-06.
http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=19648 "Archive. Tournament report October 2001"
http://www.fide.com/ratings/trarc.phtml?event16=26&codt=10 Nordisk Mesterskab 2003
http://www.fide.com/ratings/trarc.phtml?event16=0976&codt=18 Nordic Championship 2005
http://www.tromsosjakklubb.com/sjakkspalta/tskspalta030807.htm Politiken Cup 2007
http://www.nrk.no/sport/dansk-nordisk-mester-1.6709247 Dansk nordisk mester
http://www.nettavisen.no/sjakk/article3111596.ece Ingen norske har klart det på 19 år
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/ingen-sektion/axel-smith-lade-beslag-pa-nm-titeln Axel Smith lade beslag på NM-titeln