CHESS PLAYER

Gideon Ståhlberg

1908 - 1967

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Anders Gideon Tom Ståhlberg (26 January 1908 – 26 May 1967) was a Swedish chess player. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. He won the Swedish Chess Championship of 1927, became Nordic champion in 1929, and held it until 1939. Ståhlberg came to fame when he won matches against star players Rudolf Spielmann and Aron Nimzowitsch in 1933 and 1934 respectively, and came third (after Alexander Alekhine) in Dresden 1936, and second (after Reuben Fine) in Stockholm 1937. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Gideon Ståhlberg is the 87th most popular chess player (up from 89th in 2024), the 479th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 528th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Gideon Ståhlberg ranks 87 out of 461. Before him are Maia Chiburdanidze, Pal Benko, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, and Louis Paulsen. After him are Ljubomir Ljubojević, Adolf Albin, Larry Evans, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Edward Lasker, and Friedrich Sämisch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Gideon Ståhlberg ranks 178. Before him are Janina Lewandowska, Pál Titkos, Oddbjørn Hagen, Robert Morley, Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, and Elliott Carter. After him are Héctor Trujillo, Peg Entwistle, Michel Marcel Navratil, Edoardo Amaldi, Eddie Tolan, and Nikolay Nosov. Among people deceased in 1967, Gideon Ståhlberg ranks 139. Before him are Siegfried Sassoon, Mikhail Kovalyov, Péter Palotás, Radhabinod Pal, Li Lisan, and Nils von Kantzow. After him are Oskar Fischinger, Tudor Arghezi, Eugen Fischer, Charles Bickford, Otto Erich Deutsch, and Mischa Elman.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gideon Ståhlberg ranks 479 out of 1,879. Before him are Sonja Edström (1930), Nils von Kantzow (1885), Marianne Fredriksson (1927), Nils Edén (1871), Richard Bergh (1858), and Gunnar Ekelöf (1907). After him are Ivan Eklind (1905), Sven Davidson (1928), Ingvar Wixell (1931), Tommy Körberg (1948), Jeanna Bauck (1840), and Carl Gustaf Ekman (1872).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Sweden

Among chess players born in Sweden, Gideon Ståhlberg ranks 1. After him are Tiger Hillarp Persson (1970), and Emanuel Berg (1981).

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