Aage Vestøl (24 December 1922 – 30 March 2008) was a Norwegian

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player. Vestøl won the next to the top class at the Norwegian Championships in 1938, and likewise won the next to the top class at the Nordic Championships in 1939. From the end of the

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until 1959 Vestøl was Norway's second strongest player, after Olaf Barda. Vestøl became Norwegian Champion in 1949.List of Norwegian champions until 2003
/ref> He represented Norway in the five

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s from 1950 to 1958, on the first and second tables.

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References

Bergen Chess Club homepage
(see 03.04.2008 for obituary by Øystein Brekke)

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* Chess Olympiad competitors 1922 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Norwegian chess players 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{norway-chess-bio-stub