Johannes Hjalmar Giersing (18 November 1872,

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– 11 November 1954,

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) was a Danish

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

master. At the beginning of his career, he tied for 4-5th in Copenhagen 1895 ( Andreas Rosendahl won). Giersing played several times in

Nordic Chess Championship The Nordic Chess Championship (''Nordiska Schackkongressen'') is a biennial chess tournament which determines the champion of the Nordic countries. The first edition took place in Stockholm in 1897. History The winners in the Nordic Championship in ...

, and won at Kristiania (now Oslo) 1903 (4th Nord-ch). He also took 6th at Copenhagen 1899 (2nd Nord-ch,

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won); tied for 5-6th at Göteborg 1901 (3rd Nord-ch, Möller won); took 10th at Stockholm 1906 (

Ossip Bernstein Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein (20 September 1882 – 30 November 1962) was a French chess player and businessman. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title Grandmaster (chess), International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Biography Born ...

and

Carl Schlechter Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a controversial World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker. Ea ...

won), took 10th at Stockholm 1912 (8th Nord-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), tied for 6-7th at Copenhagen 1916 (9th Nord-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), took 5th at Kristiania 1917 (10th Nord-ch, Gustaf Nyholm won), and took 11th at Copenhagen 1924 (12th Nord-ch,

Aron Nimzowitsch Aron Nimzowitsch (; , ''Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich''; 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Latvian-born Danish chess player and writer. In the late 1920s, Nimzowitsch was one of the best chess players in the world. He was the foremost f ...

won). Giersing won the Danish Championship at Horsens 1915, won at Copenhagen 1918, and took 3rd at Aarhus 1925 (DEN-ch, Erik Andersen won). Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01

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External links

The chess games of Johannes Giersing
{{DEFAULTSORT:Giersing, Johannes 1872 births 1954 deaths Danish chess players