Tom Wedberg

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Tom Wedberg 1984.jpg
Tom Wedberg, Amsterdam 1984
Surname Tom Birger Wedberg
Association SwedenSweden Sweden
Born November 26, 1953
Stockholm
title International Master (1978)
Grand Master (1995)
Current  Elo rating 2411 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2540 (April to July 2002)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Tom Birger Wedberg (born November 26, 1953 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish chess player and journalist.

Life

Tom Wedberg comes from a well-known Swedish family. His father Anders Wedberg (1913–1978) was a professor of theoretical philosophy. His grandfather Birger Wedberg (1870-1945) was Justitieråd at the Supreme Court of Sweden and honorary member of the Swedish Academy , his great-grandfather Johan Otto Wedberg (1826-1912) was also Justitieråd and honorary member of the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien , a Stockholm academy of science. Justitieråd refers to a judge's office at the Swedish Supreme Court.

successes

In 1978 Tom Wedberg received the title of International Master . 1981 (shared) and 1982 he won the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen . In 1989/90 he won the Rilton Cup in front of Alexei Schirow in Stockholm . He has held the title of Grand Master since 1995 . He received the chess gideon , an award of the Swedish Chess Federation named after Gideon Ståhlberg , in 1995 and 2001. In 2000 he became the Swedish individual champion.

In February 2015 he was in 13th place in the Swedish Elo ranking.

As a chess author he wrote articles for the magazine New In Chess .

National team

With the Swedish national team, he took part in the Chess Olympiad six times ( 1978 , 1980 , 1982 , 1988 , 1990 and 1992 ) and three times in the European team championships (1980, 1989 and 2001).

societies

In Sweden Wedberg plays for the Stockholm club Wasa SK , with which he was part of the Swedish first division ( Elitserien ) for a long time , most recently in the 2009/10 season . With the Wasa SK he won the Swedish team championship in the seasons 1973/74 , 1986/87 , 1987/88 , 1988/89 , 1989/90 and 1990/91 and took part in the European Club Cup in 1988, 1990 and 1992 . In Germany he has been playing for SK Johanneum Eppendorf since 2012 , including in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 2013/14 season.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Politiken Cup program ( PDF , Danish; 636 kB)
  2. ↑ Rules and championship publication of the Swedish Chess Federation, p. 16 (PDF, English; 276 kB)
  3. ↑ Rules and championship publication of the Swedish Chess Federation, p. 5 ( PDF , Swedish; 276 kB)
  4. ↑ List of the Swedish single masters on the website of the Swedish Chess Federation (Swedish)
  5. ↑ Tom Wedberg's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Tom Wedberg's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Tom Wedberg's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ^ DWZ index card at the German Chess Federation
personal data
SURNAME Wedberg, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedberg, Tom Birger (full name); Wedberg, Thomas; Wedberg, Tomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish chess player and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm