Eric Jonsson | |
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Country | Sweden |
Born | 1 October 1903 |
Died | 1974 (aged 70–71) |
Eric Jonsson (1 October 1903 – 1974) was a Swedish chess player.
Eric Jonsson was one of Sweden’s strongest chess players in the 1920s and 1930s. He was six-time Gothenburg chess champion (1925, 1926, 1928, 1935, 1936 and 1942). In 1937, Eric Jonsson played a small demonstration match with Reuben Fine (as part of the tour of the American chess grandmaster in Sweden) - ½: 1½. In 1948, with the Swedish national team, he participated in a number of international chess matches with the teams of Denmark and Norway.
Eric Jonsson has played for Sweden in the Chess Olympiads: [1]
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