Gotthard Backlund (unknown - unknown) was a

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player.

Biography

Gotthard Backlund was one of the strongest chess players in Sweden in the 1950s. He played mainly in domestic chess tournaments and

Swedish Chess Championship The first Swedish Champion was Gustaf Nyholm, who won two matches against winners of national tournaments: Berndtsson in Göteborg and Löwenborg in Stockholm in 1917. Up until 1931 Swedish Chess Championships decided by match play. In the 1930s, G ...

s. In 1954, Gotthard Backlund took part in the international chess match with the USSR national chess team. Gotthard Backlund played for Sweden in the

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 an ...

: * In 1956, at fourth board in the 12th Chess Olympiad in

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(+3, =4, -4). Gotthard Backlund participated in chess tournaments until the end of the 1970s.

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Gotthard Backlund
chess games at 365chess.com Year of birth missing Year of death missing Swedish chess players Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century chess players {{Sweden-bio-stub