(Knut) Otto (Reinhold) Löwenborg (Loewenborg, Loevenborg, Løwenborg, Løvenborg) (2 March 1888 – December 1969) was a
Swedish
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chess
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master.
In January 1912, he won a
simultaneous exhibition game against
Frank James Marshall
Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century.
Chess career
Marshall was born in New York Cit ...
in Stockholm. He took 3rd at Stockholm 1913 (
Boris Kostić
Borislav Kostić (24 February 1887 – 3 November 1963) was a Yugoslav chess grandmaster and a popularizer of the game.
Life and chess
Borislav Kostic was born in Vršac, Kingdom of Hungary, at the time part of Austria-Hungary. His father Di ...
won), took 9th at Jungbunzlau (Mladá Boleslav) 1913 (
Karel Opočenský
Karel Opočenský (7 February 1892 – 16 November 1975) was a Czechoslovak chess master.
Chess career
Opočenský was four-time Czech Champion (1927, 1928, 1938, and 1944). In 1919, he took 2nd, behind František Schubert, in Prague ( Czechoslo ...
won), tied for 2nd–4th at Copenhagen 1916 (the 9th
Nordic Championship,
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won), took 8th at Stockholm 1916, took 6th at Kristiania 1917 (the 10th Nordic-ch,
Gustaf Nyholm won), shared 1st with
Anton Olson and won a match against him (3–2) at Stockholm 1917, and finally lost a match for the
Swedish Champion title to Nyholm (1–4) at Stockholm 1917.
He tied for 7–8th at Göteborg 1918 (
Karl Berndtsson
Karl Mathias Berndtsson Kullberg (16 March 1892 – 29 September 1943) was a Swedish chess master who was born and died in Göteborg.
He won at Copenhagen 1916, and lost a match for the Swedish Chess Championship to Gustaf Nyholm (1½–3½) in 19 ...
won), tied for 4–6th at Göteborg 1919 (the 11th Nordic-ch,
Rudolf Spielmann and Olson won), and tied for 4–8th at Copenhagen 1924 (the 12th Nordic-ch,
Aron Nimzowitsch won).
[http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's ''Chess Tournament Crosstables'', An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01]
References
External links
Otto Löwenborg at 365Chess.com
1888 births
1969 deaths
Swedish chess players
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