Arne Zwaig

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Arne Zwaig (born February 6, 1947 ) is a Norwegian chess player who won the Norwegian individual championship twice and was one of the strongest chess players in Scandinavia in the early 1970s.

Life

Arne Zwaig visited the Oslo katedralskole . He was a board member of the youth organization Sosialistisk Folkeparti . In 1973 he co-founded the chess magazine Patt on behalf of the Norwegian Chess Federation , which had ten issues. He worked in the computer industry. For the Norwegian individual championship in 2000, he created an artistic computer animation about the Immortal Game for the performance of his daughter, the dancer Johanna Zwaig .

successes

Single successes

He was able to win the Norwegian individual championship twice: in 1964 in Oslo and in 1969 in Hamar . When he won his title in 1964, at the age of 17, he was the youngest Norwegian to have succeeded in this since the start of the competition in 1918; only Simen Agdestein was younger when he won his title in 1982. The open Norwegian individual championship was won by Arne Zwaig in 1971, the Norwegian championships in rapid chess in 1973 and 1974.

National team

As a 15-year-old he played for the Norwegian national team at the 1962 Chess Olympiad in Varna and had a positive result of 7 points from 13 games on the first reserve board, where he managed a draw against Paul Keres . At the Chess Olympiads in Tel Aviv in 1964 and in Havana in 1966 , he played on the second board of the national team. He then played at the Chess Olympiads in Lugano in 1968 , in Skopje in 1972 and in Nice in 1974 . In a total of 93 games played in the Olympics, he scored 51.5 points (+40, = 23, −30; 55.4 percent).

He took part in the U26 student world championships for Norway in 1968 in Ybbs on the Danube and in 1969 in Dresden , in 1969 on the top board. In his four appearances in Nordic Chess Cups (1971, 1972, 1973 and 1975) he played on the first board in 1971 and 1975. In 1971 in Großenbrode and 1973 in Ribe , Norway came third in the medal ranks.

societies

Although he was a board member of a socialist youth organization, he played for the more conservative Oslo Schakselskap . When there was no support from the club for the trip to the 1966 Chess Olympiad in Cuba , he left the club with Svein Johannessen and switched to the Torshov Sjakklub . After the Torshov SK was closed, Zwaig founded the Oslo Sjakklubben Fischer . He was Norwegian team champion in 1971 with Torshov and in 1973, 1975 and 1976 with Fischer . He later also played for Asker SK . He also played in the Swedish 2nd division.

Title and rating

In 1975 he was awarded the title of International Master (IM). He achieved the standards for this at the 1974 Chess Olympiad, at the Astoria Chess International tournament in Hamar in 1975 and in the same year at an international tournament in Sandefjord .

Arne Zwaig's Elo number is 2439 (as of April 2020), but he is listed as inactive at FIDE because he has not played an Elo-rated game since 2000. His highest rating was 2475 in January 1976. In the early 1970s, he was the Norwegian player with the highest rating. Zwaig had his highest historical Elo performance according to the calculation by Jeff Sonas at the zone tournament in Halle (Saale) in 1967, which was won by Lajos Portisch , with 2569.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Profiles: Arne Zwaig from Atle Grønn in Norsk Sjakk Blad No. 2, 2005, p. 15ff ( PDF , 2.48 MB; Norwegian)
  2. ↑ THE IMMORTAL GAME on Johanna Zwaig's website (English)
  3. ^ List of Norwegian champions 1918 to 2002 (Norwegian)
  4. ↑ The Chess Olympiads Arne Zwaig on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ The Student World Championships Arne Zwaig at olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ The Nordic Chess Cups Arne Zwaigs on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Arne Zwaig on chessmetrics.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Zwaig, Arne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1947