Martin Emanuel Johansson

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Martin Emanuel Johansson
Country Sweden
Born(1918-08-06)6 August 1918
Norrhyttan, Sweden
Died07.1999
Norrhyttan, Sweden

Martin Emanuel Johansson (6 August 1918 - July 1999) was a Swedish chess player, Swedish Chess Championship winner (1966).

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Biography

Martin Emanuel Johansson was one of the strongest chess players in Sweden in the 1960s. He won three medals in Swedish Chess Championship: gold (1966), [1] silver (1965, he shared 1st-2nd place with Zandor Nilsson but lost additional match 2:3) and bronze (1964). In 1963, in Halle Martin Emanuel Johansson ranked 9th place in World Chess Championship Zonal tournament. [2] The main achievement in the international arena for Martin Emanuel Johansson was the shared 1st-2nd place with the grandmaster Alexander Kotov at the New Year tournament in Stockholm (1959/60). Then Johansson managed, among others, to get ahead of the grandmaster Paul Keres.

Martin Emanuel Johansson was also played of correspondence chess. In 1950 and 1962, he twice won Swedish Correspondence Chess Championship.

Martin Emanuel Johansson played for Sweden in the Chess Olympiads: [3]

Martin Emanuel Johansson played for Sweden in the European Team Chess Championship preliminaries: [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "SWE-ch 1966 - 365Chess.com Tournaments". www.365chess.com.
  2. ↑ "OlimpBase :: European zonal 2, Halle 1967". www.olimpbase.org.
  3. ↑ "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Martin Johansson". www.olimpbase.org.
  4. ↑ "OlimpBase :: European Men's Team Chess Championship (preliminaries) :: Martin Johansson". www.olimpbase.org.


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