Nordic Chess Championship

Template:Short description 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	Template:Flagathlete
2	1899	Copenhagen	Template:Flagathlete
3	1901	Gothenburg	Template:Flagathlete
4	1903	Kristiania	Template:Flagathlete
5	1905	Stockholm	Template:Flagathlete
6	1907	Copenhagen	Template:Flagathlete
7	1909	Gothenburg	Template:Flagathlete
8	1912	Stockholm	Template:Flagathlete
9	1916	Copenhagen	Template:Flagathlete
10	1917	Kristiania	Template:Flagathlete
11	1919	Gothenburg	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete
12	1924	Copenhagen	Template:Flagathlete
13	1928	Oslo	Template:Flagathlete
14	1929	Gothenburg	Template:Flagathlete
15	1930	Stockholm	Template:Flagathlete
16	1934	Copenhagen	Template:Flagathlete *)
*)	1934	Copenhagen	Template:Flagathlete
17	1936	Helsinki	Template:Flagathlete *)
*)	1937	Copenhagen	Template:Flagathlete
18	1938	Örebro	Template:Flagathlete
19	1939	Oslo	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete
20	1946	Copenhagen	Template:Flagathlete
21	1947	Helsinki	Template:Flagathlete
22	1948	Örebro	Template:Flagathlete
23	1950	Reykjavík	Template:Flagathlete
24	1953	Esbjerg	Template:Flagathlete
25	1955	Oslo	Template:Flagathlete
26	1957	Helsinki	Template:Flagathlete
27	1959	Örebro	Template:Flagathlete
28	1961	Reykjavík	Template:Flagathlete
29	1963	Odense	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete
30	1965	Oslo	Template:Flagathlete
31	1967	Hangö	Template:Flagathlete
32	1969	Lidköping	Template:Flagathlete
33	1971	Reykjavík	Template:Flagathlete
34	1973	Grenå	Template:Flagathlete
35	1975	Sandefjord	Template:Flagathlete
36	1977	Kiljava	Template:Flagathlete
37	1979	Sundsvall	Template:Flagathlete
38	1981	Reykjavík	Template:Flagathlete
39	1983	Esbjerg	Template:Flagathlete
40	1985	Gjøvik	Template:Flagathlete
41	1987	Tórshavn	Template:Flagathlete
42	1989	Espoo	Template:Flagathlete
43	1992	Östersund	Template:Flagathlete
44	1995	Reykjavík	Template:Flagathlete
45	1997	Reykjavík	Template:Flagathlete
46	1999	Copenhagen	Template:Flagathlete
47	2001	Bergen	Template:Flagathlete
48	2003	Aarhus	Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete
49	2005	Vammala	Template:Flagathlete
50	2007	Copenhagen	Template:Flagathlete
51	2009	Copenhagen	Template:Flagathlete
52	2011	Reykjavík	Template:Flagathlete
53	2013	Køge	Template:Flagathlete
54	2016	Sastamala	Template:Flagathlete
55	2017	Växjö	Template:Flagathlete
56	2019	Sarpsborg	Template:Flagathlete
57	2022	Jyväskylä	Template:Flagathlete