Nordic Chess Championship
The first Nordic Chess Championship (Nordiska Schackkongressen) took place in Stockholm in 1897.[1][2][3]
Winners
The winners in the Nordic Championship in 1934 and 1936, Aron Nimzowitsch and Erik Lundin, got the Nordiske kongresmestre title, as the champion 1930, Erik Andersen, defended his title with 3-3 against Gideon Ståhlberg at Copenhagen 1934 and lost it by 2½-3½ against Erik Lundin at Copenhagen 1937.
Several of the Nordic Championship have been arranged as part of an open tournament, where the best placed player from a Nordic country becomes Nordic Champion even if that person did not win the event. For example, the Nordic Champion of 2011, Jon Ludvig Hammer, finished fifth in the Reykjavik Open that doubled as the Nordic Championship since the four players who finished ahead of him were from Ukraine, the Netherlands, and Poland and were thus ineligible for the Nordic Champion title.
# Year City Nordic champion 1 1897 Stockholm 
Sven Otto Svensson (Sweden)2 1899 Copenhagen 
Jørgen Møller (Denmark)3 1901 Gothenburg Jørgen Møller (Denmark)4 1903 Kristiania Johannes Giersing (Denmark)5 1905 Stockholm A. H. Pettersson (Sweden)6 1907 Copenhagen 
Paul Saladin Leonhardt (German Empire)7 1909 Gothenburg 
Milan Vidmar (Austria)8 1912 Stockholm 
Alexander Alekhine (Russian Empire)9 1916 Copenhagen 
Paul Johner (Switzerland)10 1917 Kristiania Gustaf Nyholm (Sweden)11 1919 Gothenburg Rudolf Spielmann (Austria) Anton Olson (Sweden)12 1924 Copenhagen Aron Nimzowitsch (Denmark)13 1928 Oslo Karl Berndtsson (Sweden)14 1929 Gothenburg Gideon Ståhlberg (Sweden)15 1930 Stockholm Erik Andersen (Denmark)16 1934 Copenhagen Aron Nimzowitsch (Denmark) *)*) 1934 Copenhagen Erik Andersen (Denmark)17 1936 Helsinki Erik Lundin (Sweden) *)*) 1937 Copenhagen Erik Lundin (Sweden)18 1938 Örebro Gideon Ståhlberg (Sweden)19 1939 Oslo Gideon Ståhlberg (Sweden) Erik Lundin (Sweden)20 1946 Copenhagen 
Osmo Kaila (Finland)21 1947 Helsinki Eero Böök (Finland)22 1948 Örebro 
Baldur Möller (Iceland)23 1950 Reykjavík Baldur Möller (Iceland)24 1953 Esbjerg Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland)25 1955 Oslo Bent Larsen (Denmark)26 1957 Helsinki Olof Sterner (Sweden)27 1959 Örebro 
Svein Johannessen (Norway)28 1961 Reykjavík Ingi R. Johannsson (Iceland)29 1963 Odense Bjørn Brinck-Claussen (Denmark) Manne Joffe (Sweden)30 1965 Oslo Freysteinn Thorbergsson (Iceland)31 1967 Hangö Ragnar Hoen (Norway)32 1969 Lidköping Ole Jakobsen (Denmark)33 1971 Reykjavík Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland)34 1973 Grenå Bent Larsen (Denmark)35 1975 Sandefjord Sejer Holm (Denmark)36 1977 Kiljava Lars-Erik Pettersson (Sweden)37 1979 Sundsvall Christer Niklasson (Sweden)38 1981 Reykjavík Knut Jøran Helmers (Norway)39 1983 Esbjerg Curt Hansen (Denmark)40 1985 Gjøvik Simen Agdestein (Norway)41 1987 Tórshavn Margeir Petursson (Iceland)42 1989 Espoo Simen Agdestein (Norway)43 1992 Östersund Simen Agdestein (Norway)44 1995 Reykjavík Curt Hansen (Denmark)45 1997 Reykjavík Jóhann Hjartarson (Iceland)46 1999 Copenhagen Tiger Hillarp Persson (Sweden)47 2001 Bergen 
Artur Kogan (Israel) Evgeny Agrest (Sweden)[4]48 2003 Aarhus Evgeny Agrest (Sweden) Curt Hansen (Denmark)[5]49 2005 Vammala Evgeny Agrest (Sweden)[6]50 2007 Copenhagen Emanuel Berg (Sweden)[7]51 2009 Copenhagen Peter Heine Nielsen (Denmark)[8]52 2011 Reykjavík Jon Ludvig Hammer (Norway)[9]53 2013 Køge Axel Smith (Sweden)[10]54 2016 Sastamala Erik Blomqvist (Sweden)55 2017 Växjö
References
- ↑ "Stadgar" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-06.
- ↑ Thorbjørn Rosenlund. "foraer". Dsu9604.dsu.dk. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
- ↑ "ShakkiNet - shakkipeli/historia2". Shakki.net. 2001-06-21. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
- ↑ "Archive. Tournament report October 2001"
- ↑ Nordisk Mesterskab 2003 Archived January 4, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Nordic Championship 2005
- ↑ Politiken Cup 2007
- ↑ Dansk nordisk mester
- ↑ Ingen norske har klart det på 19 år
- ↑ Axel Smith lade beslag på NM-titeln