• The Danish Chess Championship was organised by the Danish Chess Union (DSU) and first held in 1910. A masterclass was first introduced in 1915. But it...
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    2016. He won the Danish Chess Championship in 2016 and 2017. In March 2018, he competed in the European Individual Chess Championship. He finished in one-hundredth...
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  • 2023. Chess.com has hosted online tournaments including Titled Tuesdays, the PRO Chess League, the Speed Chess Championships, PogChamps, Online Chess Olympiads...
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    chess engines in the world for several years; it has won all main events of the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) and the Chess.com Computer Chess...
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    Peter Heine Nielsen (category Danish chess players)
    in 1994. He won the Danish Chess Championship five times: in 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2008. He played for Denmark in seven Chess Olympiads, three times...
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  • Jacob Øst-Hansen (category Danish chess players)
    Danish chess FIDE Master (FM), Danish Chess Championship medalist (1976), Chess Olympiad individual medalist (1980), European Team Chess Championship...
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    The World Chess Championship 1984–1985 was a match between challenger Garry Kasparov and defending champion Anatoly Karpov in Moscow from 10 September...
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  • Nielsen (4 May 1929 – 1987), was a Danish chess player, and two-times Danish Chess Championship medalist (1952, 1954). Chess Olympiad individual bronze medal...
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  • a Danish chess player, Danish Chess Championship medalist (1967). Karl Pedersen participated many times in the finals of Danish Chess Championships and...
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  • was a Danish chess player, Danish Chess Championship medalist (1940). In the 1930s and 1940s, Ernst Sørensen was one of the leading Danish chess players...
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  • March 1934 — 8 February 1993) was a Danish chess International Master (IM) (1964), four-times Danish Chess Championship winner (1958, 1967, 1968, 1973)....
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  • Chess, a strategy board game, is played all over the world. The international governing body of chess is FIDE, established in 1924. Most national chess...
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    The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition)...
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    (9 January 1914 – 16 September 2004), was a Danish chess player, and six-times Danish Chess Championship medalist (1944, 1946, 1948, 1954, 1955, 1959)...
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  • Moises Aron Kupferstich (category Danish chess players)
    (14 November 1905 – 18 May 1984) was a Poland-born Danish chess player and Danish Chess Championship medalist (1953, 1954). From the late 1940s to the...
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  • Svend Hamann (category Danish chess players)
    silver medal in Danish Chess Championship. In 1972, in Esbjerg he won Danish Chess Championship. Svend Hamann played for Denmark in the Chess Olympiads: In...
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    The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally...
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  • Johannes Petersen (category Danish chess players)
    was a Danish chess player, Danish Chess Championship winner (1920). In the 1920s and 1930s Johannes Petersen was one of Danish leading chess players...
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    Magnus Carlsen (category Norwegian chess players)
    title of grandmaster a few months later. At 15, he won the Norwegian Chess Championship, and later became the youngest ever player to qualify for the Candidates...
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    American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,...
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  • Bo Jacobsen (category Danish chess players)
    1948), is a Danish chess player, Danish Chess Championship winner (1976). In the mid-1970s Jacobsen was one of the leading Danish chess players. He participated...
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  • Bent Kølvig (category Danish chess players)
    April 1938), is a Danish chess player, Danish Chess Championship winner (1962). In the 1960s Bent Kølvig was one of Danish leading chess players. He participated...
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  • Gert Iskov (category Danish chess players)
    Gert Iskov (born 28 July 1948) is a Danish chess International Master (IM) (1979), Danish Chess Championship winner (1975). From the begin of 1970s to...
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  • Julius Nielsen (category Danish chess players)
    December 1901 – 1981) was a Danish chess player, a two-time Danish Chess Championship medalist (1934, 1943) and a Correspondence Chess International Master (IM...
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  • Ole Jakobsen (category Danish chess players)
    was a Danish chess International Master (IM) (1973), three-times Danish Chess Championship winner (1969, 1971, 1980), Nordic Chess Championship winner...
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  • Jens Kølbæk (category Danish chess players)
    Jens Kølbæk (born 1945), is a Danish chess player and two-times Danish Chess Championship medalist in 1976 and 1977. From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s...
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    FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 was a chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the World Chess Champion. At the time the World Chess Champion title...
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    The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion...
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  • Steen Fedder (category Danish chess players)
    (born 14 June 1951), is a Danish chess International Master (IM) (1982), Danish Chess Championship medalist (1980), Nordic Chess Cup winner (1973). From...
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  • The Danish Gambit, known as the Nordisches Gambit in German and the Noords Gambiet in Dutch (both meaning Nordic Gambit), is a chess opening that begins...
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