Arne Zwaig

Who is Arne Zwaig?

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, 1973, 1975, and 1976.

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.