Gustaf Nyholm (27 January 1880 – 12 September 1957) was a Swedish

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master. He was the first Swedish Champion (1917–1921 and 1922–1924), and a Nordic Champion in 1917. He was born and died in

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. In 1907 he came 6th in

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(the 6th Nordic-ch,

Paul Saladin Leonhardt Paul Saladin Leonhardt (13 November 1877 – 14 December 1934) was a German chess master. He was born in Posen, Province of Posen, German Empire (now Poland), and died of a heart attack in Königsberg during a game of chess. A player with a ...

won). In 1909 he finished second, behind Joel Fridlizius, in

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(the 7th Nordic-ch, B tournament). He took 11th in the

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(the 17th

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, ''Hauptturnier A'',

Gersz Rotlewi Gersz (Georg, George, Gersh) Rotlewi (Rotlevi, Rotlevy) (1889 – 1920) was a Polish chess master. Biography In 1906, Rotlewi tied for 5-6th in Łódź (Akiba Rubinstein won). In 1907, he took 3rd, behind Rubinstein and Dawid Daniuszewski, in Lo ...

won). In 1912 he took 11th in Stockholm (the 8th Nordic-ch,

Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...

won). In 1914 he took 10th at Baden bei Wien (

Rudolf Spielmann Rudolf Spielmann (5 May 1883 – 20 August 1942) was a Jewish-Austrian chess master of the romantic school, and chess writer. Career Spielmann was born in 1883, second child of Moritz and Cecilia Spielmann, and had a younger brother Edgar, an ...

won). During

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, he tied for 6-7th at Copenhagen 1916 (the 9th Nordic-ch,

Paul Johner Paul F. Johner (10 September 1887, in Zürich, Switzerland – 25 October 1938, in Berlin, Germany) was a Swiss chess master. A noted musician (violinist), elder brother of Hans Johner, he won the Swiss Championship six times, namely in 1907 (j ...

won), and twice won at Stockholm 1916 and Christiania (Oslo) 1917 (the 10th Nordic-ch), took 4th at Stockholm 1917, and took 2nd behind Karl Berndtsson at Gothenburg 1918. After the war, he tied for 7-8th in Göteborg 1919 (the 11th Nordic-ch, Spielmann and Anton Olson won), and took 3rd at Uppsala 1923 (

Allan Nilsson Allan Nilsson (18 May 1899 – 4 September 1949) was a Swedish chess master. Nilsson was born in Gothenburg. He was Swedish champion in 1924–1929, and played four matches for the title, all in Gothenburg. He drew a match with Gustaf Nyholm (2 ...

and Olson won). Nyholm played for Sweden at second board (+3 -8 =4) in the

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1927.OlimpBase :: 1st Chess Olympiad, London 1927, Sweden
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