Olaf Barda

Chess Player

1909 – 1971

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Who was Olaf Barda?

Olaf Barda, born Olaf M. Olsen, was a Norwegian chess player. He was the first Norwegian awarded the title of International Master, which he received in 1952.

Barda won the Norwegian Chess Championship six times, 1930, 1947, 1948, 1952, 1953, and 1957.

Barda authored the Norwegian instruction manual "Sjakk!", and wrote the chess column for the newspaper Dagbladet.

Barda was also a strong correspondence chess player, winning the Norwegian correspondence chess championships in 1946 and 1949/1950. He received the title of Grandmaster in correspondence chess in 1953 and finished fourth in the Fourth World Correspondence Chess Championship played between 1950 and 1953. This was the best Norwegian result in that contest until Ivar Bern won the 17th championship in 2006.

According to ChessBase, Barda usually opened with 1.d4 when he was playing White. With black against 1.e4 Barda played several variations of the Sicilian Defence, but occasionally played 1...d6 or 1...e5 allowing the Ruy Lopez. Against 1.d4 his repertoire is varied, playing such openings such as the Old Indian Defense, Nimzo-Indian Defense and Slav Defense.

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Born
Aug 17, 1909
Died
May 2, 1971
Oslo

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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