Simen Agdestein
Simen Agdestein ( born May 15, 1967 in Asker ) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and a successful football player.
Life
Football played as a striker for Lyn Oslo Agdestein and came on eight missions in the Norwegian national football team. His national team career, during which he scored one goal, ended because he opposed the wishes of the national coach did not want to move abroad to improve his level. In 1989 he declined a contract offer from Besiktas Istanbul. 1992 ended a serious knee injury his professional career.
Early on, he drew attention to himself as a chess player: In 1982, he was at the age of 15 years for the first time Norwegian national champion. In 1985 he was awarded the Grandmaster title as the first Norwegian. In 1986, he finished second at the World Junior Championships in Gausdal; behind the winner Walter Arencibia, but before about future world class players like Evgeny Bareev and Viswanathan Anand.
End of July 1989 played Simen Agdestein the zone tournament in Espoo, which he won before Margeir Pétursson and Bent Larsen. Participants were 14 grandmasters who played a round robin tournament 15 km from the center of Helsinki.
As a chess player, he was seven times national champion of Norway, most recently in 2005., He represented his country in seven Chess Olympiads. In 1999, he won the famous Cappelle la Grande Open in 2003 an Open in Port Erin (Isle of Man). In July 2013 he won the Open superior Sant Martí i Barcelona with 8.5 / 9 ( rating performance 2901 ).
In January 1993, he reached his best Elo rating 2630th
He coached the Norwegian chess talent Magnus Carlsen, about whose early chess career, he wrote a book. He works as a teacher at a sports school in Oslo and writes chess contributions for the newspaper Verdens Gang.
Agdestein with Marianne Aasen Agdestein ( born February 21, 1967 in Bergen), one of the deputies Arbeiderpartiet in the Storting, married and has three children. His older brother Espen (* 1965 ) is also a chess player and carries the title of FIDE Master.
Works
- Simens sjakkbok, 1997. ISBN 82-05-25146-0
- Wonderboy, 2004. ISBN 90-5691-131-7 ( a biography of the exceptional talent Magnus Carlsen ).