Frode Urkedal

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Frode Urkedal 2012.jpg
Frode Urkedal, Athens 2012
Surname Frode Olav Olsen Urkedal
Association NorwayNorway Norway
Born May 14, 1993
Oslo
title International Master (2011)
Grand Master (2016)
Current  Elo rating 2549 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating 2572 (January 2018)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Frode Olav Olsen Urkedal (born May 14, 1993 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian chess player .

Life

Frode Urkedal grew up in Oslo. He attended Engebråten skole, a middle school in the Oslo district of Kjelsås, and then graduated from Foss videregående skole in Grünerløkka as a secondary school . He has been studying in Trondheim since 2014 .

He started playing chess at school. His first coaches were Finn Møller at the school and Johs R. Kjeken in Urkedals club Schakklubben av 1911 . Later he was trained by, among others, Alexandar Deltschew .

successes

He won the Norwegian individual championship in 2012 before Espen Lie and in 2014 before Aryan Tari .

He played for the Norwegian national team at the 2010 Chess Olympiad on the fourth board and the 2012 Olympics on the third board. At the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø , he played on the top board of the second Norwegian team. He managed to win there in the second round against Vasyl Ivanchuk . At the 2015 European Team Championship, Urkedal played on the fourth board of the Norwegian team.

He plays club chess for the Oslo Schakklubben av 1911 , the largest chess club in Norway. Since the 2009/10 season Urkedal has been playing on the top board in the highest Norwegian league, the Eliteserien , in 2020 he was the Norwegian team champion with this team. With the club he also took part in the European Club Cup 2008 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki) . In Sweden he plays for Farsta SK .

Since June 2011 he has held the title of International Master . He achieved all the norms for this with over-fulfillment: at the 2nd Sveins Minneturnier in June 2009 in Oslo, at the Norwegian individual championship in July 2010 in Fredrikstad and at the 40th Rilton Cup 2010/11 in Stockholm . He achieved norms for obtaining the grandmaster title at the Norwegian individual championship in Sandefjord in July 2012 , in the Norwegian team championship 2013/14 and in February 2016 at a grandmaster tournament in Porto Cristo , so that he was awarded the grandmaster title in 2016.

With his highest Elo rating to date of 2557, he ranks fifth in the Norwegian Elo ranking in December 2016.

Web links

Commons : Frode Urkedal  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In all norm requests to the World Chess Federation FIDE , Oslo is given as the place of birth, with the exception of the application for its IM norm at the Norwegian Individual Championship 2010, where Fredrikstad is given as the place of birth. This could be an incorrect entry because Fredrikstad was the venue for the 2010 championship.
  2. ↑ Nors Sjakk Blad No. 1 2011 ( Memento from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) ( PDF , Norwegian)
  3. ↑ Results of Frode Urkedals at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Results of Frode Urkedals at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ IM application (English)
  6. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English, PDF; 341 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Urkedal, Frode
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urkedal, Frode Olav Olsen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo