Berndt Söderborg (13 August 1933 – 29 March 2024) was a

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chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

player and

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(1993).

Biography

Berndt Söderborg was one of the strongest chess players in Sweden in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He participated in several

Swedish Chess Championship The first Swedish Champion was Gustaf Nyholm, who won two matches against winners of national tournaments: Berndtsson in Göteborg and Löwenborg in Stockholm in 1917. Up until 1931 Swedish Chess Championships decided by match play. In the 1930s, Gi ...

s. Also Berndt Söderborg was participant of the Stockholm International chess tournaments in 1962 and 1963. In the 1962 tournament he shared 2nd-3rd places with Grandmaster (GM)

Salo Flohr Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr (November 21, 1908 – July 18, 1983) was a Czechoslovak and Soviet chess player and writer. He was among the first recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Flohr dominated many tourna ...

. Berndt Söderborg played for Sweden in the

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and ...

: * In 1962, at second reserve board in the

15th Chess Olympiad The 15th Chess Olympiad ( bg, 15-ата Шахматна олимпиада, ''15-ata Shahmatna olimpiada''), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and fe ...

in Varna (+2, =9, -0). Berndt Söderborg played for Sweden in the World Student Team Chess Championships: * In 1955, at second reserve board in the 2nd World Student Team Chess Championship in

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(+2, =3, -3), * In 1956, at second board in the 3rd World Student Team Chess Championship in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inha ...

(+0, =3, -5), * In 1957, at first board in the 4th World Student Team Chess Championship in

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(+3, =5, -5), * In 1958, at first board in the 5th World Student Team Chess Championship in Varna (+0, =1, -7), * In 1959, at first board in the 6th World Student Team Chess Championship in

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(+2, =4, -4), * In 1960, at first board in the 7th World Student Team Chess Championship in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

(+2, =2, -6), * In 1961, at third board in the 8th World Student Team Chess Championship in

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(+0, =1, -7). In the 1990s and 2000s Berndt Söderborg played in senior chess tournaments. In 2001 he became the silver medalist of the Swedish Senior Chess championship, and in 2003 he won this championship.

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* * * 1933 births 2024 deaths Swedish chess players Chess Olympiad competitors Chess arbiters {{Sweden-chess-bio-stub