Ernst Rojahn
Ernst Andreas Rojahn (born August 13, 1909 in Tønsberg ; † July 24, 1977 there ) was a Norwegian chess player .
He was able to win the Norwegian individual championship twice: in 1945 in Oslo after play-offs and in 1958 in Ålesund .
For the Norwegian national team, he took part in four Chess Olympiads . In the chess Olympics 1939 in Buenos Aires , he played on top board and received for the best result of this board (8 points from 10 games) in the final group B a poncho from Catamarca . In the preliminary round he played a draw against José Raúl Capablanca in Buenos Aires . In 1952 in Helsinki Rojahn played on the fourth board, in 1956 in Moscow on the 2nd reserve board and in 1958 in Munich again on the 1st board. At the Chess Olympiad in 1958 he won against the Greek Alexandros Angos with a double rook sacrifice.
Rojahn played club chess for Tønsberg SK .
Its highest historical rating was 2468 in May 1940.
Web links
- Replayable chess games by Ernst Rojahn on 365Chess.com (English)
- Entry in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
- Photo by Ernst Rojahn on fss.no (Norwegian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winner of the Norwegian individual championships from 1916 on www.sjakknytt.no (Norwegian)
- ^ Justin Corfield: Pawns in a Greater Game. The Buenos Aires Chess Olympiad August - September 1939 . Gentext Publications, Lara, Victoria 2015, p. 296. (English)
- ↑ Ernst Rojahn's Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Chess in Norway - wall-to-wall coverage on TV . Article by Thomas Robertsen from June 21, 2015 at ChessBase (English)
- ↑ Ernst Rojahn on chessmetrics.com (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rojahn, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rojahn, Ernst Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tonsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1977 |
| Place of death | Tonsberg |