(Knut) Otto (Reinhold) Löwenborg (Loewenborg, Loevenborg, Løwenborg, Løvenborg) (2 March 1888 – December 1969) was a Swedish

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master. In January 1912, he won a

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game against

Frank James Marshall Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century. Chess career Marshall was born in New York Cit ...

in Stockholm. He took 3rd at Stockholm 1913 (

Boris Kostić Borislav Kostić (24 February 1887 – 3 November 1963) was a Serbs, Serbian chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster and a popularizer of the game. He was one of the best players in the world during the early part of the 20th century and in 1950 w ...

won), took 9th at Jungbunzlau (Mladá Boleslav) 1913 (

Karel Opočenský Karel Opočenský (7 February 1892 – 16 November 1975) was a Czechoslovak chess master. Chess career Opočenský was four-time Czech Champion (1927, 1928, 1938, and 1944). In 1919, he took 2nd, behind František Schubert, in Prague (Czechoslov ...

won), tied for 2nd–4th at

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1916 (the 9th Nordic Championship,

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won), took 8th at Stockholm 1916, took 6th at

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1917 (the 10th Nordic-ch, Gustaf Nyholm won), shared 1st with Anton Olson and won a match against him (3–2) at Stockholm 1917, and finally lost a match for the Swedish Champion title to Nyholm (1–4) at Stockholm 1917. He tied for 7–8th at Göteborg 1918 ( Karl Berndtsson won), tied for 4–6th at Göteborg 1919 (the 11th Nordic-ch,

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 ...

and Olson won), and tied for 4–8th at Copenhagen 1924 (the 12th Nordic-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).http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's ''Chess Tournament Crosstables'', An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01

References

External links

Otto Löwenborg at 365Chess.com
1888 births 1969 deaths Swedish chess players {{sweden-chess-bio-stub