The Nordic Chess Championship (Nordiska Schackkongressen) is a biennial chess tournament which determines the champion of the Nordic countries. The first edition took place in Stockholm in 1897.
History The winners in the Nordic Championship in 1934 and 1936, Aron Nimzowitsch and Erik Lundin, got the Nordiske kongresmestre title, as the champion of 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.
Winners # Year City Nordic champion 1 1897 Stockholm 2 1899 Copenhagen 3 1901 Gothenburg 4 1903 Kristiania 5 1905 Stockholm 6 1907 Copenhagen 7 1909 Gothenburg 8 1912 Stockholm 9 1916 Copenhagen 10 1917 Kristiania 11 1919 Gothenburg 12 1924 Copenhagen 13 1928 Oslo 14 1929 Gothenburg 15 1930 Stockholm 16 1934 Copenhagen *) *) 1934 Copenhagen 17 1936 Helsinki *) *) 1937 Copenhagen 18 1938 Örebro 19 1939 Oslo 20 1946 Copenhagen 21 1947 Helsinki 22 1948 Örebro 23 1950 Reykjavík 24 1953 Esbjerg 25 1955 Oslo 26 1957 Helsinki 27 1959 Örebro 28 1961 Reykjavík 29 1963 Odense 30 1965 Oslo 31 1967 Hangö 32 1969 Lidköping 33 1971 Reykjavík 34 1973 Grenå 35 1975 Sandefjord 36 1977 Kiljava 37 1979 Sundsvall 38 1981 Reykjavík 39 1983 Esbjerg 40 1985 Gjøvik 41 1987 Tórshavn 42 1989 Espoo 43 1992 Östersund 44 1995 Reykjavík 45 1997 Reykjavík 46 1999 Copenhagen 47 2001 Bergen "Archive. Tournament report October 2001" 48 2003 Aarhus Nordisk Mesterskab 2003 49 2005 Vammala 50 2007 Copenhagen Politiken Cup 2007 51 2009 Copenhagen Dansk nordisk mester 52 2011 Reykjavík Ingen norske har klart det på 19 år 53 2013 Køge Axel Smith lade beslag på NM-titeln 54 2016 Sastamala 55 2017 Växjö 56 2019 Sarpsborg 57 2022 Jyväskylä
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