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Arne Zwaig
Arne Zwaig (6 February 1947 – 12 April 2022) was a Norwegian chess player who held the title of International Master. He won the Norwegian Chess Championship in 1964 and 1969. Zwaig's first participation on the Norwegian Chess Olympiad team was in 1962 where he, as an untitled 15-year-old, held Paul Keres to a draw in an inferior rook endgame. He has since played on the Norwegian team at the Olympiads in 1964, 1966, 1968, 1972, and 1974. Zwaig was politically active for the radical Socialist People's Party, but was nonetheless a member of the Oslo chess club which featured a mainly conservative patronage at the time. However, Zwaig was unhappy with the Oslo chess club's lack of support for team travelling to the 1966 Olympiad in Havana, and along with Svein Johannessen he broke with the club and became a member of Torshov, before forming a new club "SK Fischer". Zwaig played on these clubs' teams, which won the Norwegian team championships of 1971 (Torshov), 1973, 1975, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of in 2019, and the metropolitan area had an estimated population of in 2021. During the Viking Age the area was part of Viken. Oslo was founded as a city at the end of the Viking Age in 1040 under the name Ánslo, and established as a ''kaupstad'' or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada. The city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king. It became a municipality ('' formannskapsdistrikt'') on 1 January 1838. The city fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
