Nordic Chess Cup
The Nordic Chess Cup was a chess tournament for national teams from Northern Europe, which was held a total of 12 times from 1970 to 1989.
Tournament form
The Nordic Chess Cup was held as a round-robin tournament ("everyone against everyone"). The tournament was held annually from 1970 to 1977, then resumed in 1983 after a long break and played every two years until 1989.
Each team consisted of six players (plus substitutes). Only in the first event in 1970 was played on eight boards. From 1971, the occupation of a board with a female player was mandatory. The number of participating teams varied from four to eight. The first evaluation criterion was the board points.
Participating teams
The main line-up of the tournament consisted of the national teams of the Scandinavian countries Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland as well as the FR Germany. Poland and the Faroe Islands participated four and three times respectively. The German federal states Schleswig-Holstein and Bremen were represented as hosts three times or once with their own team, Finland once with an additional B-team.
| team | Participation | Victories | host |
|---|---|---|---|
 Bremen
|
1 | 0 | (1) |
 Denmark
|
10 | 2 | 2 |
 BR Germany
|
12 | 3 | 6th |
 Faroe Islands
|
3 | 0 | 0 |
 Finland
|
9 | 0 | 1 |
|
Finland B
|
1 | 0 | 0 |
 Iceland
|
7th | 0 | 0 |
 Norway
|
12 | 2 | 1 |
 Poland
|
4th | 1 | 1 |
 Schleswig-Holstein
|
3 | 0 | (5) |
 Sweden
|
12 | 4th | 1 |
The host roles of Bremen and Schleswig-Holstein are also counted under Germany.
Results
| year | host | 1st place | place 2 | place 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1970 | Grossenbrode |
BR Germany
|
Sweden
|
Norway
|
| 2 | 1971 | Grossenbrode |
Sweden
|
Denmark
|
Norway
|
| 3 | 1972 | Grossenbrode |
Sweden
|
Denmark
|
BR Germany
|
| 4th | 1973 | Ribe |
Denmark
|
Sweden
|
Norway
|
| 5 | 1974 | Eckernförde |
BR Germany
|
Denmark
|
Iceland
|
| 6th | 1975 | Hindås |
BR Germany
|
Denmark
|
Finland
|
| 7th | 1976 | Bremen |
Norway
|
BR Germany
|
Denmark
|
| 8th | 1977 | Glücksburg |
Sweden
|
BR Germany
|
Denmark
|
| 9 | 1983 | Oslo |
Poland
|
Denmark
|
Sweden
|
| 10 | 1985 | Pohja |
Sweden
|
Denmark
|
Poland
|
| 11 | 1987 | Slupsk |
Norway
|
Poland
|
Sweden
|
| 12 | 1989 | Aabybro |
Denmark
|
BR Germany
|
Poland
|
Participating players
The participating countries typically deploy a selection of their strongest available players. Thus there were numerous grandmasters and international champions among the participants , including the World Cup candidates Robert Hübner and Bent Larsen .