Gustaf Nyholm 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.

He was the first 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...

 (1917–1921 and 1922–1924), and a Nordic Champion

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...

 in 1917.

In 1907 he took 6th in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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 (the 6th Nordic-ch, Paul Saladin Leonhardt won). In 1909 he took 2nd, behind Joel Fridlizius

Joel Fridlizius

Joel Fridlizius was a Swedish chess master.He took 2nd, behind Jorgen Moeller, at Gothenburg 1901 , won ahead of Gustaf Nyholm at Gothenburg 1909 , and tied for 7-9th but won games from Alexander Alekhine and Rudolf Spielmann at Stockholm 1912 .-External links:...

, in Göteborg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

 (the 7th Nordic-ch, B tournament). He took 11th in the Hamburg 1910 chess tournament

Hamburg 1910 chess tournament

The Hamburg 1910 chess tournament was organized by Walter Robinow, the President of the Hamburg Chess Club .-Masters Tournament:Eighteen masters started but Franz Jakob withdrew after round 6....

 (the 17th DSB Congress

DSB Congress

The Deutschen Schachbund had been founded in Leipzig on 18 July 1877. When the next meeting took place in the Schützenhaus on 15 July 1879, sixty-two clubs had become member of the chess federation. Hofrat Rudolf von Gottschall became Chairman and Hermann Zwanziger the General Secretary...

, Hauptturnier A, Gersz Rotlewi

Gersz Rotlewi

Gersz Rotlewi was a Polish chess master.-Biography:In 1906, Rotlewi tied for 5-6th in Lodz...

 won). In 1912 he took 11th in Stockholm (the 8th Nordic-ch, Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...

 won). In 1914 he took 10th at Baden bei Wien (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....

 won).

During World War I

World War I

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, he tied for 6-7th at Copenhagen 1916 (the 9th Nordic-ch, 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), and twice won at Stockholm 1916 and Christiania

Oslo

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 (Oslo) 1917 (the 10th Nordic-ch), took 4th at Stockholm 1917, and took 2nd behind 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...

  at Gothenburg 1918. After the war, he tied for 7-8th in Göteborg 1919 (the 11th Nordic-ch, Spielmann and 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...

 won), and took 3rd at Uppsala 1923 (Allan Nilsson

Allan Nilsson

Allan Nilsson was a Swedish chess master.He was Swedish Champion in 1924-1929, and played four matches for the title, all in Göteborg...

 and Olson won).

Nyholm played for Sweden at second board (+3 -8 =4) in the 1st Chess Olympiad

1st Chess Olympiad

The 1st Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 18 and July 30, 1927, in London, United Kingdom...

 at London

London

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1927.