Jens Evald Enevoldsen-Elsing (23 September 1907– 23 May 1980) was a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master born in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 who won the Danish Chess Championship

Danish Chess Championship

The Danish Chess Championship was organised by the Danish Chess Union and first held in 1910. A masterclass was first introduced in 1915. But it is only from 1922 that the title of Danish chess champion was introduced, this was the first year also players from Copenhagen joined.-History:In 1949...

 five times (1940, 1943, 1947, 1948, and 1960). In 1939 he shared first but lost a playoff, and in 1950 he again shared first but lost a lottery.

He took 4th at Helsinki 1947 (zonal, Eero Böök

Eero Böök

Eero Einar Böök was a Finnish chess player and engineer.A six-time Finnish champion who represented his country six times in the Chess Olympiad, he was awarded the International Master title in 1950 and became an honorary Grandmaster in 1984...

 and Gösta Stoltz

Gösta Stoltz

-Biography:Stoltz played a few matches with strong chess masters. In 1926, he lost to Mikhail Botvinnik at a team match Stockholm – Leningrad in Stockholm. In 1927, he drew with Allan Nilsson in Göteborg . In 1930, he won against Isaac Kashdan in Stockholm. In 1930, he lost to Rudolf Spielmann ...

 won).

Enevoldsen played for Denmark ten times in Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

s (1933, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1952, 1956, 1958, 1966, 1970, and 1972).

He was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1950 and was made an International Arbiter

International Arbiter

In chess, International Arbiter is a title awarded by FIDE to individuals deemed capable of acting as arbiter in important chess matches . The title was established in 1951....

 (IA) in 1960.

Jens Enevoldsen has authored several Danish Books on Chess:

• Jens Enevoldsen, Det Positionelle Angreb
• Jens Enevoldsen, Lærebog i Skak:
  • Begyndelsesgrundene
  • Første Del: Aabningsspillet, Jespersen og Pios Forlag, (1941)
  • Anden Del: Midtspillet
  • Tredie Del: Slutspillet I-II

Further reading

• British Chess Magazine
  British Chess Magazine
  British Chess Magazine is the world's oldest chess magazine in continuous publication. First published in January 1881, it has appeared at monthly intervals ever since. It is frequently known in the chess world as BCM....
  
  , 1980, p. 432
• Deutsche Schachzeitung
  Deutsche Schachzeitung
  Deutsche Schachzeitung was the first German chess magazine.Founded in 1846 by Ludwig Bledow under the title Schachzeitung der Berliner Schachgesellschaft, it took the name Deutsche Schachzeitung in 1872...
  
  , 1980, p. 376

External links

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