The Swedish Chess Federation ( sv, Sveriges Schackförbund, SSF) is the national organization for

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 dist ...

in Sweden. It was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Located north of the c ...

. The organization has a 9-member board of directors led by a chairman; Håkan Jalling has been chairman since 2018. The Swedish Chess Federation also organizes a

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 ...

Chairmen

*1917–1939 Ludvig Collijn, Stockholm *1940–1947 Erik Olson, Göteborg *1947–1964

Folke Rogard Bror Axel Folke Per Rogard (6 July 1899 – 11 June 1973) was a Swedish lawyer, chess official, player and arbiter. He was born in Stockholm, with the surname Rosengren, and qualified as a lawyer with that name. After a family member was charged w ...

, Stockholm *1964–1965 Nils Grenander, Göteborg *1965–1969 Nils Kellgren, Stockholm *1969–1977 Birger Öhman, Stockholm *1977–1999 Christer Wänéus, Norrköping *2000–2007 Ingvar Carlsson, Linköping *2007–2010 Ari Ziegler, Göteborg *2010–2013 Anil Surender, Malmö *2013–2018 Carl Fredrik Johansson, Uppsala 2018- Håkan Jalling

External links

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