Leif Øgaard

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Leif Øgaard (born January 5, 1952 in Norway ) is a Norwegian chess player .

Life

He learned to play chess from his father in 1959 when he was seven years old. Leif Øgaard writes the chess columns in the Trondheim daily Andreassavisen and the Oslo daily newspapers Dagbladet (taken over by Thor Støre) and Aftenposten .

successes

Individual tournaments

In 1968 he won the junior championship of Norway. He won the Norwegian individual championship in 1974 (in Sandefjord ), 1975 (in Oslo), 1979 (in Molde ), 1985 (in Gausdal ) and 1993 (in Oslo). He won the Norwegian individual championship in correspondence chess in 1974 and in blitz chess in 1985. At the Dortmund Chess Days in 1974 he took second place, in the same year he was fifth in Reykjavík . At the Rilton Cup 1975/76 in Stockholm , he finished fourth. In 1981 he won the International Open in Gausdal. In 1982 he defeated Viktor Korchnoi , who was then third on the FIDE rating list, in a radio match.

National team

With the Norwegian national team, he took part in six Chess Olympiads . 1970 in Siegen on the second reserve board, 1972 in Skopje on the first reserve board, 1974 in Nice on the top board, 1976 in Haifa again on the first board, 1978 in Buenos Aires on the third board and 1984 in Thessaloniki on the third board. In 1970, when he took part for the first time, he received an individual bronze medal for his result of 7.5 out of 11. The best team result was eleventh place in 1976. Overall, Leif Øgaard has a result of 44 points out of 78 games at the Chess Olympiads (+30 = 28th place) −20; 56.4 percent).

At the Clare Benedict Cup , a Western European national tournament, which was held from 1953 to 1979, he took part for Norway in 1977 in Copenhagen in the 22nd and penultimate edition on the first board.

He was particularly successful at the Nordic Chess Cup , in which he participated four times. In 1973 in Ribe , Denmark , he played on the first board. The team took third place. In 1976 in Bremen he won the Nordic Chess Cup with the team, he also had the best result of all players on the top board with 4.5 out of 5 (with an Elo rating of 2742). He also played on the first board in 1977 in Glücksburg . In 1983 in Oslo he had the best result of all players on the second board with 5 out of 7.

Club teams

He played club chess almost exclusively in the Oslo Schakselskap , with which he was Norwegian team champion in 2007 , 2008 , 2010 , 2011 , 2014 and 2015 and took part in the European Club Cup five times between 1984 and 2007 . In the 1980s he played for the Oslo club Brugata SK , but he also played for the Follo Sjakkforening in between .

Title and rating

He received the title of International Master in 1974 after finishing fifth in Reykjavík. He has held the title of Grand Master since 2007 . He achieved the norms for this at the international tournament in Gausdal in August 1981 and at the Gausdal anniversary tournament in April 1982. The third norm was only achieved in the 2006/2007 season of the Norwegian team championship. So he had to wait 25 years to be able to accept the grandmaster title, although he had already achieved two standards and the required Elo rating. The rule that standards expire after five years was abolished at this point. It is very rare that a chess player only becomes a grandmaster at the age of 55 by fulfilling the norms. Although he had already fulfilled a GM standard in terms of Elo performance at the Dortmund Chess Days in 1975, this was not recognized by the World Chess Federation FIDE, as Øgaard had not played enough against a grandmaster at this tournament: Heikki Westerinen got his GM title only after the shaft days. Leif Øgaard is the ninth Norwegian Grandmaster since the title was introduced in 1950.

His Elo rating is 2385 (as of May 2019), which puts him in 28th place in the Norwegian Elo ranking. The highest Elo rating he has achieved so far was 2485 in 1982. In the course of 1982, his intermediate Elo rating rose to 2510, but dropped to 2475 when the next evaluation took place in January 1983.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chess Olympiads Leif Øgaard on olimpbase.org (Polish)
  2. ↑ Participation in the Nordic Chess Cup at olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Leif Øgaard's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ GM application (English)
personal data
SURNAME Øgaard, Leif
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ogaard, Leif (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Norway