Otto von Löwenborg (Loewenborg, Loevenborg, Løwenborg, Løvenborg) (2 March 1888 – December 1969) was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 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.

In January 1912, he won a simultaneous exhibition

Simultaneous exhibition

A simultaneous exhibition or simultaneous display is a board game exhibition in which one player plays multiple games at a time with a number of other players. Such an exhibition is often referred to simply as a "simul".In a regular simul, no chess clocks are used...

 game against Frank James Marshall in Stockholm. He took 3rd at Stockholm 1913 (Boris Kostić won), took 9th at Jungbunzlau (Mladá Boleslav) 1913 (Karel Opočenský

Karel Opocenský

Karel Opočenský was a Czech chess master.-Biography:He was four-time Czech Champion . In 1919, he took 2nd, behind František Schubert, in Prague . In 1925, he tied for 3rd-4th in Paris . In 1927, he won in Česke Budějovice...

 won), tied for 2nd-4th at Copenhagen 1916 (the 9th Nordic Championship

Nordic Chess Championship

The first Nordic Chess Championship took place in Stockholm in 1897.-Winners:The winners in the Nordic Championship in 1934 and 1936, Aron Nimzowitsch and Erik Lundin, got the Nordiske kongresmestre title, as the champion 1930, Erik Andersen, defended his title with 3-3 against Gideon Ståhlberg at...

, Paul Johner

Paul Johner

Paul Johner was a Swiss chess master.A noted musician , elder brother of Hans Johner, he won the Swiss Championship in 1907 , 1908 , 1925, 1928 , 1930 and 1932 .He played in many international tournaments...

 won), took 8th at Stockholm 1916, took 6th at Kristiania 1917 (the 10th Nordic-ch, Gustaf Nyholm

Gustaf Nyholm

Gustaf Nyholm was a Swedish chess master.He was the first Swedish Champion , and a Nordic Champion in 1917....

 won), shared 1st with Anton Olson

Anton Olson

Anton Olson was a Swedish chess master.He was Swedish Champion in 1921, and thrice played matches for the title, all in Stockholm. He lost a match to Gustaf Nyholm in 1919, won against Nyholm in 1921, and lost to Nyholm in 1921.He took 2nd, behind Boris Kostić, at Stockholm 1913; shared 1st...

 and won a match against him (3 : 2) at Stockholm 1917, and finally lost a match for the Swedish Champion

Swedish Chess Championship

The first Swedish Champion was Gustaf Nyholm who won two matches against winners of national tournaments: Berndtsson in Göteborg and Löwenborg in Stockholm in 1917. Until 1931 Swedish Chess Championships decided by match play. In the 1930s, Gideon Ståhlberg held the title in spite of results of the...

 title to Nyholm (1 : 4) at Stockholm 1917.

He tied for 7-8th at Göteborg 1918 (Karl Berndtsson

Karl Berndtsson

Karl Mathias Berndtsson Kullberg was a Swedish chess master who was born and died in Göteborg.He won at Copenhagen 1916, and lost a match for the Swedish Chess Championship to Gustaf Nyholm in 1917. He was first in the national tournaments in 1918, 1920, 1921 , and 1926...

 won), tied for 4-6th at Göteborg 1919 (the 11th Nordic-ch, Rudolf Spielmann

Rudolf Spielmann

Rudolf Spielmann was an Austrian-Jewish chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer.-Career:He was a lawyer but never worked as one....

 and Olson won), and tied for 4-8th at Copenhagen 1924 (the 12th Nordic-ch, Aron Nimzowitsch

Aron Nimzowitsch

Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born Danish unofficial chess grandmaster and a very influential chess writer...

won).

External links

• Otto Löwenborg at 365Chess.com