Jón Guðmundsson (1904 – 1980) was an

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player, three-times Icelandic Chess Championship winner (1932, 1936, 1937),

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and an individual gold medal winner (

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Biography

In the 1930s Jón Guðmundsson was one of the most promising young chess players in Iceland. He won the Icelandic Chess Championship thrice (1932, 1936, 1937). He was part of the historic team that won the President's Cup in Argentina at the 1939 Chess Olympiad. There, Jón defeated all his opponents in the finals, but then retired from chess. Jón Guðmundsson played for Iceland in the

s: * In 1930, in the 3rd Chess Olympiad in

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(+3, =4, -10), * In 1937, at second reserve board in the

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(+4, =5, -7), * In 1939, at third board in the

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(+11, =0, -3) and won individual gold medal for group "B", showing a hundred percent result in this group - 10 wins in 10 games. After this success in 1939 Chess Olympiad, Jón Guðmundsson rarely participated in chess tournaments.

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Jón Guðmundsson
chess games at 365chess.com 1904 births 1980 deaths Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century Icelandic chess players {{Iceland-chess-bio-stub