| Tom Wedberg | |
|---|---|
 Tom Wedberg, Amsterdam 1984 | |
| Country | Sweden |
| Born | 26 November 1953 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Title | Grandmaster (1990) |
| Peak rating | 2540 (July 2002) |
Tom Wedberg (born 26 November 1953) is a Swedish chess grandmaster. He is the son of Swedish philosopher Anders Wedberg.
In 2000, he won the Swedish Chess Championship. [1] In 1981 tied for 1st with Petar Velikov and Shaun Taulbut in the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen, but was clear first in 1982. [2] In 1999 he won the Scandic Hotels Chess Cup in Stockholm. [3] He tied for 2nd–4th (with Artur Yusupov and Tomi Nybäck) in the 32nd Rilton Cup in Stockholm 2003. [4]
Wedberg played for Sweden in the Chess Olympiads of 1978, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1990, 1992 [5] and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1980, 1989 and 2001. [6]
According to Chessmetrics, at his peak in September 1984 Wedberg's play was equivalent to a rating of 2630, and he was ranked No. 77 in the world. His best single performance was at Amsterdam (OHRA), 1984, where he scored 4½/8 (56%) against 2665-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2663. [7]
In the July 2010 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2503, making him the No. 9 ranked Swedish player.
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