The Swedish Chess Federation (, SSF) is the national organization for

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 ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

. It was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in

Uppsala Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Loc ...

. The organization has a 9-member board of directors led by a chairman; Håkan Jalling has been chairman since 2018. The Swedish Chess Federation also organizes a

Swedish Chess Championship The first Swedish Champion was Gustaf Nyholm, who won two matches against winners of national tournaments: Berndtsson in Göteborg and Löwenborg in Stockholm in 1917. Until 1931 Swedish Chess Championships were decided by match play. In the 1930s, ...

Chairmen

*1917–1939 Ludvig Collijn, Stockholm *1940–1947 Erik Olson, Göteborg *1947–1964

Folke Rogard Bror Axel Folke Per Rogard (6 July 1899 – 11 June 1973) was a Swedish lawyer, chess official, player and arbiter. He was born in Stockholm, with the surname Rosengren, and qualified as a lawyer with that name. After a family member was charged w ...

, Stockholm *1964–1965 Nils Grenander, Göteborg *1965–1969 Nils Kellgren, Stockholm *1969–1977 Birger Öhman, Stockholm *1977–1999 Christer Wänéus, Norrköping *2000–2007 Ingvar Carlsson, Linköping *2007–2010 Ari Ziegler, Göteborg *2010–2013 Anil Surender, Malmö *2013–2018 Carl Fredrik Johansson, Uppsala 2018- Håkan Jalling

External links

* {{Authority control National members of the European Chess Union Chess in Sweden

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 ...

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