Aage Vestøl (24 December 1922 – 30 March 2008) was a Norwegian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player. Vestøl won the next to the top class at the Norwegian Championships in 1938, and likewise won the next to the top class at the Nordic Championships in 1939. From the end of the

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until 1959 Vestøl was Norway's second strongest player, after

Olaf Barda Olaf Barda (17 August 1909 – 2 May 1971 in Oslo), born Olaf M. Olsen, was a Norwegian chess player. He was the first Norwegian awarded the chess title of International Master, which he received in 1952. Barda won the Norwegian Chess Champio ...

. Vestøl became Norwegian Champion in 1949.List of Norwegian champions until 2003
/ref> He represented Norway in the five

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and ...

s from 1950 to 1958, on the first and second tables.

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References

Bergen Chess Club homepage
(see 03.04.2008 for obituary by Øystein Brekke)

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* Norwegian chess players Chess Olympiad competitors 1922 births 2008 deaths 20th-century chess players {{norway-chess-bio-stub