Jolanta Dahlin (née Szota, 30 July 1940 – 1991), was a Polish and
Swedish
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chess player, who hold the
FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master (1987). She was a winner of the
Swedish Women's Chess Championship (1973).
Biography
At the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, Jolanta Szota was one of Poland's leading chess players. She made her first start in the final of the
Polish Women's Chess Championship in 1962 in
Grudziądz. Until 1971, she appeared eight times in the Polish Women's Chess Championship final tournaments, winning two titles of the Polish women's vice-champion: in 1967 in
Kielce
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and in 1971 in
Piotrków Trybunalski. In addition, in 1966, 1968 and 1969 she was fourth in the Polish Women's Chess Championship finals. She represented the colors of the ''Legion Warsaw'' chess club many times in the Polish Team Chess Championship and five times (1961, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1969) winning gold medals. In 1971, she took part in two international tournaments, occupying 5th–6th place in
Brașov, and 5th place in Piotrków Trybunalski.
After she married Gunnar Dahlin, she emigrated to Sweden and settled in
Gothenburg
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, where she worked in a company trading with Eastern European countries. In 1973, she won the title of the
Swedish Women's Chess Champion, and in 1976 she took 2nd place in the International Women's Chess tournament in
Stockholm
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.
Jolanta Dahlin two times participated in the
Women's World Chess Championship European Zonal Tournaments:
* in 1975 in
Karlovy Vary
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at European zonal 1 she shared 5th–7th place;
* in 1985 in
Eksjö at Nordic European subzonal she shared 4th–5th place.
Jolanta Dahlin played for Sweden in the
Women's Chess Olympiads:
* In 1974, at second board in the
6th Chess Olympiad (women) in
Medellín
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(+6, =1, −3),
* In 1976, at first board in the
7th Chess Olympiad (women) in
Haifa (+3, =4, −2),
* In 1978, at second board in the
8th Chess Olympiad (women) in
Buenos Aires (+2, =3, −4),
* In 1984, at third board in the
26th Chess Olympiad (women) in
Thessaloniki (+1, =4, −4).
Jolanta Dahlin played for Sweden in the Nordic Chess Cup:
* In 1977, at fifth board in the 8th Nordic Chess Cup in
Glücksburg
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(+4, =1, −0), and won team and individual gold medals.
Jolanta Dahlin died of cancer in 1991.
References
External links
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Jolanta Dahlinchess games at 365Chess.com
1940 births
1991 deaths
People from Poręba
People from the Province of Silesia
Swedish female chess players
Swedish chess players
Polish female chess players
Polish chess players
Chess Woman FIDE Masters
Chess Olympiad competitors
20th-century chess players
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