Egil Jacobsen was a Danish 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.

He tied for 5-6th at Horsens 1915 (the 6th 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...

, Johannes Giersing

Johannes Giersing

Johannes Hjalmar Giersing was a Danish chess master.At the beginning of his career, he tied for 4-5th in Copenhagen 1895 . Giersing played several times in Nordic Chess Championship, and won at Kristiania 1903...

 won), tied for 9-10th at Copenhagen 1916 (the 9th Nordic Chess 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...

, B-tournament, 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), and twice won Danish championships at Grenaa 1917 and Copenhagen 1922. He took 5th at Copenhagen 1923 (Aron Nimzowitsch

Aron Nimzowitsch

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

 won), and shared 2nd, behind Erik Andersen, at Copenhagen 1923 (DEN-ch).

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(chessgames.com misattributes some 1928 Chess Olympiad

2nd Chess Olympiad

The 2nd Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 21 and August 6, 1928 in The Hague, Netherlands.The final results were as...

 games to Egil Jacobsen that were probably played by Ernst Jacobsen

Ernst Jacobson

Ernst Jacobson was a Swedish chess master.He took 8th at Copenhagen 1916 , took 2nd at Stockholm 1916, tied for 7-8th at Göteborg 1920 , took 3rd and won ahead of Karl Berndtsson and Gustaf Nyholm at Jönköping 1921, and took 4th at Uppsala 1923 Ernst Jacobson (31 January 1889, Stockholm – 8...

instead)

• Egil Jacobsen at 365Chess.com