Börje Jansson (born 12 March 1942) is a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used b ...

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 ...

FIDE Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

(2005) and two-time

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 ...

winner (1968, 1970).

Biography

In 1959, Börje Jansson won the Swedish Junior Chess Championship. In the mid-1960s, he was one of the leading Swedish chess players. Börje Jansson participated in the finals of the

many times and won eight medals: 2 gold (1968, 1970), 3 silver (1967, 1969, 1977) and 2 bronze (1965, 1972). In 1969, in

Raach am Hochgebirge Raach am Hochgebirge is a town in the district of Neunkirchen in the Austrian state of Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, locat ...

, he participated in a World Chess Championship Zonal tournament and ranked 10th. Börje Jansson shared first place three times in the international chess tournaments ''Rilton Cup'' in Stockholm: 1973/74, 1975/76 and 1977/78. In the early 1980s, his chess activity decreased. In 2004, Börje Jansson won the Swedish Senior Chess Championship in the S60 age group. In 2006 and 2010, he won two chess tournaments 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 ...

. Börje Jansson 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 ...

s: * in 1964, at the first reserve board in the

16th Chess Olympiad The 16th Chess Olympiad ( he, אולימפיאדת השחמט ה-16, ''Olimpiada ha-shachmat ha-16''), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and fema ...

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

(+6, =1, -3), * in 1966, at the fourth board in the

17th Chess Olympiad The 17th Chess Olympiad ( es, La 17a Olimpíada de ajedrez), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. team tournament, as well as severa ...

Havana Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.

(+5, =7, -5), * in 1968, at the first board in the

18th Chess Olympiad The 18th Chess Olympiad ( it, Le 18º Olimpiadi degli scacchi), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. team tournament, as well as seve ...

Lugano Lugano (, , ; lmo, label=Ticinese dialect, Ticinese, Lugan ) is a city and municipality in Switzerland, part of the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino. It is the largest city of both Ticino and the Italian-speaking southern Switzerland. Luga ...

(+1, =6, -5), * in 1970, at the second board in the

19th Chess Olympiad The 19th Chess Olympiad (german: Die 19. Schacholympiade), comprising an open team tournament as well as the annual FIDE congress, took place between September 5–27, 1970, in Siegen, West Germany. The Soviet team with six Grandmasters, led ...

Siegen Siegen () is a city in Germany, in the south Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein in the Arnsberg region. The university town (nearly 20,000 students in the 2018–2019 winter semeste ...

(+9, =4, -2), * in 1972, at the second board in the

20th Chess Olympiad The 20th Chess Olympiad ( mk, 20. Шаховска олимпијада, ''20. Šahovska olimpijada''), organized by FIDE and comprising an open team tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place b ...

Skopje Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; ...

(+4, =8, -4), * in 1974, at the third board in the

21st Chess Olympiad The 21st Chess Olympiad (french: La 21e Olympiade d'échecs), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. team tournament, as well as severa ...

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...

(+6, =2, -5), * in 1976, at the third board in the

22nd Chess Olympiad The 22nd Chess Olympiad ( he, אולימפיאדת השחמט ה-22, ''Olimpiada ha-shachmat ha-22''), organized by FIDE, took place between October 26 and November 10, 1976, in Haifa, Israel. For the first time, the event comprised both an open ...

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropoli ...

(+3, =1, -4). Börje Jansson played for Sweden in the

European Team Chess Championship The European Team Championship (often abbreviated in texts and games databases as ''ETC'') is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of European nations whose chess federations are located in zones 1.1 to 1.9. This more ...

: * in 1980, at the eighth board in the 7th European Team Chess Championship in

Skara Skara is a locality and the seat of Skara Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 18,580 inhabitants in 2013. Despite its small size, it is one of the oldest cities in Sweden, and has a long educational and ecclesiastical history. On ...

(+1, =1, -2). Börje Jansson played for Sweden in the

Clare Benedict Cup The Clare Benedict Cup was a chess tournament for national teams from Western and Northern Europe, which took place 23 times from 1953 to 1979. Overview and History Foundation Clare Benedict (1871–1961), author and patron, was originally fr ...

: * in 1974, at the third board in the 21st Clare Benedict Cup in

Cala Galdana Cala Galdana (Galdana cove) is a coastal resort in Menorca, 9 km south of Ferreries Ferreries is a municipality on the island of Menorca, in the Spanish autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. Its name is derived from the Catalan ...

(+1, =3, -3), * in 1977, at the third board in the 22nd Clare Benedict Cup in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

(+1, =4, -2), winning a team bronze medal. Börje Jansson played for Sweden in the Nordic Chess Cup: * in 1970, at the first board in the 1st Nordic Chess Cup in

Großenbrode Großenbrode is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the Baltic Sea coast, opposite Fehmarn, approx. 8 km (5 mi) east of Heiligenhafen. Until 1963 it had a ferry connection to ...

(+1, =1, -1), winning team silver and individual gold medals, * in 1971, at the second board in the 2nd Nordic Chess Cup in

(+1, =1, -1), winning a team gold medal, * in 1972, at the second board in the 3rd Nordic Chess Cup in

(+1, =1, -2), winning a team gold medal, * in 1973, at the third board in the 4th Nordic Chess Cup in

Ribe Ribe () is a town in south-west Jutland, Denmark, with a population of 8,257 (2022). It is the seat of the Diocese of Ribe covering southwestern Jutland. Until 1 January 2007, Ribe was the seat of both a surrounding municipality and county. It i ...

(+1, =1, -3), winning team silver and individual gold medals, * in 1975, at the second board in the 6th Nordic Chess Cup in

Hindås Hindås is a town centre in Härryda Municipality, about 35 km east of Gothenburg. A resort is at Västra Nedsjön, and the Mölndalsån starts here. There is a railway station between Gothenburg and Borås, part of the coast to the coastal path. I ...

(+4, =1, -0), winning an individual gold medal, * in 1976, at the second board in the 7th Nordic Chess Cup in

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the Germany, German States of Germany, state Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie H ...

(+4, =1, -0), winning an individual gold medal, * in 1977, at the third board in the 8th Nordic Chess Cup in

Glücksburg Glücksburg (; da, Lyksborg) is a small town northeast of Flensburg in the district Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and is the northernmost town in Germany. It is situated on the south side of the Flensborg Fjord, an inlet o ...

(+2, =1, -2), winning a team gold medal.

References

External links

* * * * 1942 births Living people Swedish chess players Chess FIDE Masters Chess Olympiad competitors Sportspeople from Uppsala 20th-century Swedish people People from Tierp Municipality {{Sweden-chess-bio-stub