Frode Elsness (born June 15, 1973) is a Norwegian

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player who holds the title of

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, as well as the 2008 Norwegian Chess Championship. Elsness plays for the chess club in

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. Apart from chess, Elsness is a medical doctor. Elsness was away from chess after dropping out of the

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Classics tournament in 2001. The cause was an incident in the fifth-round game. Elsness' return to organized chess came in 2004, where he finished fourth in the Norwegian championship. In 2007, Elsness won the Open Norwegian Championship for rapid chess. Elsness' first Norwegian Chess Championship came in 2008. Elsness and Jon Ludvig Hammer both finished with 6.5/9 points in the main event in

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in July. The play-off between the two players was arranged September 26–27 in

. Elsness won the first game with White, and held the draw with Black, securing a 1.5-0.5 victory, and his first championship trophy. Six times Elsnes has represented Norway in the

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: 1996 (second reserve), 2000 (board two), 2004 (second reserve), 2010 (board 3), 2012 (board 1) and 2014 (in group B, at board 2).

Incident in 2001

Elsness was playing in the

Classics tournament in 2001. There was an incident in the fifth-round game against Kristian Trygstad, where Elsness was trying to win a

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. Theoretically, the position should have been drawn, but Trygstad was in time trouble, and had asked the arbiter to declare the game drawn based on article 10.2 of the laws of chess, which allows the arbiter to end the game if the opponent is "making no effort to win the game by normal means". The arbiter

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postponed the decision and watched the game's progress before granting Trygstad's claim when his time expired. Elsness played round 6, but dropped out of the tournament in protest against the decision in the Trygstad game.Gamle nyheter
, news items on website of Rune Djurhuus, see note 24.04.01. The incident is also mentioned in the Nettavisen articl
Elsness vant NM
about his win in the rapid championship, 2007.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Elsness, Frode 1973 births Living people Norwegian chess players Chess International Masters