Arne Zwaig
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Arne Zwaig is a Norwegian chess
player who holds the title of International Master. He won the Norwegian chess championship
in 1964 and 1969.
Zwaig's first participation on the Norwegian Chess Olympiad
team was in 1962 where he, as an untitled 15-year old, held Paul Keres
to a draw in an inferior rook endgame. He since played on the Norwegian team at the Olympiads in 1964, 1966, 1968, 1972, and 1974.
Zwaig was politically active for the radical Socialist People's Party
, but was nonetheless a member of the Oslo chess club which featured a mainly conservative patronage at the time. However, Zwaig was unhappy with the Oslo chess club's lack of support for team travelling to the 1966 Olympiad in Havana, and along with Svein Johannessen
he broke with the club and became a member of Torshov, before forming a new club "SK Fischer". Zwaig played on these clubs' teams, which won the Norwegian team championships of 1971 (Torshov), 1973, 1975, and 1976 (SK Fischer).
In the early 1970s, when the Norwegian chess federation lacked a magazine, Zwaig led the publication of the chess magazine Patt. The magazine was unprofitable, and closed after a few years (but the chess federation started publishing its own magazine again in 1975). The fifth issue of 1973 contained a controversial interview with Fredrik Fasting Torgersen
who was in prison convicted for murder.
Prioritizing his career in the computer business, Zwaig retired from chess in 1977 but made a few limited comebacks in 2000 for the Asker chess club, and in 2005, now again as an Oslo chess club member.
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...
player who holds the title of International Master. He won the Norwegian chess championship
Norwegian Chess Championship
The Norwegian Chess Championship is an annual tournament held in Norway during the month of July, in order to determine the national chess champion. The tournament is held at different venues each year as part of the Landsturnering...
in 1964 and 1969.
Zwaig's first participation on the Norwegian 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...
team was in 1962 where he, as an untitled 15-year old, held Paul Keres
Paul Keres
Paul Keres , was an Estonian chess grandmaster, and a renowned chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s....
to a draw in an inferior rook endgame. He since played on the Norwegian team at the Olympiads in 1964, 1966, 1968, 1972, and 1974.
Zwaig was politically active for the radical Socialist People's Party
Socialist People's Party (Norway)
Socialist People's Party was a splinter group of the Norwegian Labour Party . SF was principally dissatisfied with the pro-NATO/European Economic Community external policies of DNA. A group centered around the magazine Orientering had been expelled from DNA...
, but was nonetheless a member of the Oslo chess club which featured a mainly conservative patronage at the time. However, Zwaig was unhappy with the Oslo chess club's lack of support for team travelling to the 1966 Olympiad in Havana, and along with Svein Johannessen
Svein Johannessen
Svein Johannessen was a Norwegian chess player. He became Norway's second International Master, after Olaf Barda, in 1961. He won four Norwegian chess championships, in 1959, 1962, 1970 and 1973....
he broke with the club and became a member of Torshov, before forming a new club "SK Fischer". Zwaig played on these clubs' teams, which won the Norwegian team championships of 1971 (Torshov), 1973, 1975, and 1976 (SK Fischer).
In the early 1970s, when the Norwegian chess federation lacked a magazine, Zwaig led the publication of the chess magazine Patt. The magazine was unprofitable, and closed after a few years (but the chess federation started publishing its own magazine again in 1975). The fifth issue of 1973 contained a controversial interview with Fredrik Fasting Torgersen
Fredrik Fasting Torgersen
Fredrik Ludvig Fasting Torgersen is a Norwegian convicted of murder.Torgersen's 1958 conviction to life imprisonment for the 1957 murder of the 16 year-old girl Rigmor Johnsen in Oslo marked the beginning of one of the most controversial cases in Norwegian criminal history. Serving 16 years in...
who was in prison convicted for murder.
Prioritizing his career in the computer business, Zwaig retired from chess in 1977 but made a few limited comebacks in 2000 for the Asker chess club, and in 2005, now again as an Oslo chess club member.