Sven Otto Svensson

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Sven Otto Svensson was a Swedish chess master.

He won in the 1st Nordic Chess Championship at Stockholm 1897, [1] took 3rd at Stockholm 1905 (the 5th Nordic-ch), [2] took 11th at Stockholm 1906 (Ossip Bernstein and Carl Schlechter won), [3] and took 5th at Copenhagen 1916 (Paul Johner won). [4]

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