Ralf Åkesson (born 8 February 1961) is a Swedish

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player. He was awarded by

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the titles of

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(IM) in 1981 and Grandmaster (GM) in 1995, and by

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the title of Senior International Correspondence Master (SIM) in 2004. Åkesson was born in

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. He won the 1980/1981

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(U20) in

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. In 1985 and 1999 he won the Swedish Chess Championship. Tournament victories include the Grandmaster Group in

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in 2001, 2003/04 Rilton Cup in Stockholm, GM B Group of the Gausdal Classics tournament and the Open of the Marx György Memorial in

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in 2005. He tied for first place with Stanislav Novikov, Batuhan Dastan, Hagen Poetsch, Alexey Kim, Jonathan Hawkins and Kacper Drozdowski in the 18th

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Open in 2013. In 2015, Åkesson won the

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Open, which consists of four rounds of

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and three of standard chess, with a score of 6.5/7. In 2015, he tied 2nd-5th place with Drazen Dragicevic, Yuri Solodovnichenko, and Erik Blomqvist in the Elite Hotels Open. He took part in three

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s for the Swedish national team (1996, 1998 and 2000) with altogether 15 points in 28 games (+9, =12, −7). He achieved his highest

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, 2535, in July 1999. In Sweden, he plays for the club ''Västerås SK'' and for the club ''Södra SS'', and in Belgium for .

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