Erik Lundin

Life

Erik Lundin was chess writer and publisher. He was editor of the chess magazine " Tidskrift för Schack ". Erik Lundin was married to Ruth Lundin (1907-1952) until her death and had with her four children.

Achievements

1950 awarded him the World Chess Federation FIDE titled International Master, 1983, almost 80 years old, with the title of Honorary Grand Master.

Eleven times he was the Swedish Individual Championship win (1931 in Uddevalla, 1932 shared with Gideon Ståhlberg in Karlskrona, 1934 in Falun, 1938 in Kalmar, 1941 in Gothenburg, 1942 in Ostersund, 1945 in Visby, 1946 in Motala, 1960 in Kiruna, 1961 Avesta and 1964 in Gothenburg ). Three times he was Nordic Champion (1936 in Helsinki, 1937 in Copenhagen, and in 1939 shared with Ståhlberg in Oslo).

With the Swedish national team, he participated in nine chess Olympiads with a total score of 88.5 points out of 143 games ( 63, -29, = 51 ). Among his greatest successes in chess Olympiads belongs to the third place with the team in 1933 in Folkestone, where he was himself an individual gold medal for his score of 10 out of 14 on the third board, and the second place with the team in 1935 in Warsaw and his individual bronze medal for be the result of 8.5 out of 13 on the second board in the Chess Olympiad 1939 in Buenos Aires.

In direct comparisons, he won in 1933 against Rudolf Spielmann in Stockholm ( 1, -0 = 5 ), 1937 against Erik Andersen in Copenhagen, 1954 against David Bronstein in Stockholm ( 1.5:0.5 ), 1967 against Heikki Westerinen in Helsinki and 1967 Bogdan Pietrusiak in Ystad.

Tournaments he won in 1928 in Oslo, in 1931, together with Salo Flohr and Gösta Stoltz in Gothenburg, 1934 in Stockholm, in 1936 in Ostend, 1948 in Bad Gastein, where he met with 15 points from 19 games Pál Benkő, Nicolas Rossolimo, Cenek Kottnauer, Ernő Gereben ( wherein a Black victory in the Nimzowitsch - Indian defense against Max Euwe emphasized ) and Esteban Canal left behind, as well as in Zurich in 1952. With the club Wasa SK he was repeatedly Swedish team champion, for example, in the seasons 1951/52, 1956, 1963, 1968/69, 1973/74 and 1987 / 88th

Lundin is one of the pioneers of the Volga - Benko Gambit.