Leif Øgaard

Leif Øgaard ( born January 5, 1952 in Norway) is a Norwegian chess player.

Life

The chess games he learned from his father in 1959, when he was seven years old. Leif Øgaard writes the chess column in the Trondheim newspaper Andreassavisen and the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet (acquired by Thor Støre ) and Aftenposten.

Achievements

Individual tournaments

In 1968, he won the Junior Championship in Norway. The Norwegian singles championship he won in 1974 ( in Sandefjord ), 1975 ( in Oslo ), 1979 ( Molde ), 1985 ( in Gausdal ) and 1993 ( in Oslo). The Norwegian Individual Championship in correspondence chess he won in 1974, in the blitz 1985. Dortmund Chess In the days of 1974, he took second place, the same year he was fifth in Reykjavík. When Rilton Cup 1975/76 in Stockholm, he finished in fourth place. In 1981 he won the International Open in Gausdal. In 1982 he defeated in a radio match Viktor Korchnoi, the then third in the FIDE rating list.

National

With the Norwegian national team, he participated in six chess Olympiads. 1970 in Siegen at second reserve board in 1972 in Skopje on the first reserve board in 1974 in Nice on top board in 1976 in Haifa again on the first board, 1978 in Buenos Aires on the third board, and in 1984 in Thessaloniki on the third board. In 1970, at its first participation, he received an individual bronze medal for his score of 7.5 out of 11 The best team result was the eleventh place in 1976. Overall Leif Øgaard has in Chess Olympiads a result of 44 points from 78 games ( 30 = 28, -20, 56.4 percent).

At Clare Benedict Cup, a Western European Nations tournament, which was played from 1953 to 1979, he took to Norway in 1977 in Copenhagen at the 22nd and penultimate edition on first board part.

He was particularly effective in the Nordic Chess Cup, in which he participated four times. 1973 Danish Ribe he played on the first board. The team finished in third place. 1976 in Bremen, he won the Nordic Chess Cup with the team, he also had 4.5 out of 5 the best score of all the players on top board (with an Elo performance of 2742 ). Also in 1977 in Glücksburg, he played on the first board. 1983 in Oslo, he had 5 out of 7, the best result of all players on the second board.

Club teams

Chess club, he played almost exclusively in the Oslo Schakselskap. In the 1980s, he plays for the Oslo club Brugata SK, but he also played in between for the Follo Sjakkforening.

Title and rating

The title of International Master, he received in 1974 after his fifth place in Reykjavík. Since 2007, he has the title Grandmaster. The standards for this purpose, he scored at the international tournament in Gausdal in August 1981 and the Gausdaler anniversary event in April 1982. The third provision, only succeeded in the 2006/2007 season of the Norwegian team championship. So he had to wait 25 years to be able to answer the grandmaster title, although he had already made ​​two standards and the required Elo rating. The rule that standards expire after five years, was abolished at this time. The fact that a chess player by Grandmaster norm compliance is only at the age of 55 years, is very rare. Although he had already fulfilled at the Dortmund Chess days in 1975 by the Elo performance establishes a GM norm, but this was not recognized by the World Chess Federation FIDE, since Øgaard had played in the tournament against a grandmaster too little: Heikki Westerinen got his GM title only after the Chess days. Leif Øgaard is the ninth Grand Master of Norway since the introduction of this Title, 1950.

His current Elo rating is 2418 (as of July 2010), so it is on the 13th place of the Norwegian Elo ranking. The previous highest Elo rating, he has achieved was 2485 in 1982. During the year 1982, its interim Elo rating climbed to 2510, but decreased at the next evaluation in January 1983 to 2475th According to Jeff Sonas ' calculations by Leif Øgaards historical Elo rating, he was in July 1982 on the 34th place in the world rankings.