Ored Karlin (1905 – 28 October 1969) was a

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player from

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Biography

Ored Karlin was one of Sweden’s strongest chess players in the 1920s and 1930s. He participated in the

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, Gi ...

s. In 1933, Ored Karlin shared 1st place in

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and ranked 2nd in an international chess tournament held in

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. In 1935 he participated in an international chess tournament in

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. Ored Karlin 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 and ...

: * In 1928, at fourth board in the

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(+2, =6, -3).

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* * 1905 births 1969 deaths Swedish chess players Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century chess players {{Sweden-chess-bio-stub