Bertil Rask
Number of games in database: 15
Years covered: 1915 to 1916
Overall record: +8 -6 =1 (56.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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A53		Old Indian (2 games)
C66		Ruy Lopez (2 games)

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BERTIL RASK (born 1898, died 1918) Sweden [what is this?] Born in Hudiksvall, Sweden, Rask's passion for chess drew him to Stockholm when he was 15. He quickly established himself as one of the top players in the Stockholm Chess Club, making an immediate impact in the winter of 1913-14, mixing it with the masters and taking =3rd in the winter tournament alongside (the soon to be) 7-times Swedish champion Gustaf Nyholm. He won the winter tournament of 1915-16, came 3rd in the Nordic Chess Congress of 1916, and won the Stockholm championship in 1917, defeating the previous winners Nyholm and Egil Jacobsen. In 1915, when he was 17, he published a monograph titled Paul Morphy 180 partier (180 games of Paul Morphy). Rask died of tuberculosis in 1918 at the age of 20. Source (including photo): http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

page 1 of 1; 15 games    Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. G Nyholm vs B Rask 1-0 33 1915 Stockholm SWE A53 Old Indian 2. L Collijn vs B Rask   1-0 22 1915 Stockholm SWE D02 Queen's Pawn Game 3. E Olson vs B Rask   0-1 39 1916 Nordic Congress-B 7th C66 Ruy Lopez 4. V Brodersen vs B Rask   1-0 29 1916 Nordic Congress-B 7th A53 Old Indian 5. H Nissen vs B Rask   0-1 34 1916 Nordic Congress-B 7th C66 Ruy Lopez 6. B Rask vs O Nilsson   0-1 54 1916 Nordic Congress-B 7th D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 7. B Rask vs K Kullberg   0-1 26 1916 Nordic Congress-B 7th C42 Petrov Defense 8. B Rask vs E Jacobsen   1-0 37 1916 Nordic Congress-B 7th C83 Ruy Lopez, Open 9. B Malmgren vs B Rask   0-1 20 1916 Nordic Congress-B 7th A46 Queen's Pawn Game 10. F Bengtsson vs B Rask 0-1 40 1916 Nordic Congress-B 7th C29 Vienna Gambit 11. J Juhl vs B Rask   1-0 35 1916 Nordic Congress-B 7th B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack 12. B Rask vs J E Brekke 1-0 21 1916 Nordic Congress-B 7th B01 Scandinavian 13. B Owesson vs B Rask   ½-½ 31 1916 Nordic Congress-B 7th C77 Ruy Lopez 14. B Rask vs A Pritzel   1-0 58 1916 Nordic Congress-B 7th D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 15. B Rask vs T Aalheim   1-0 41 1916 Nordic Congress-B 7th C01 French, Exchange

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