Leif Øgaard

Leif Øgaard (born 5 January 1952) is a Norwegian chess player. He is the ninth Norwegian to achieve the title of Grandmaster. Øgaard has won the Norwegian Chess Championship five times, in 1974, 1975, 1979, 1985 and 1993. He gained his IM title in 1974. In 1981 and 1982, Øgaard won two tournaments at Gausdal, each netting him a GM-norm. His third and final GM-norm was won in the Norwegian team chess championship in 2006-2007, making him the very first person to score 2 GM norms with a 25-year gap in-between as well as one of the oldest players to be awarded the Grandmaster title.^[1] The GM title was finally approved at FIDE's presidential board meeting in Tallinn on 22–24 June 2007.^[2] Øgaard is a member of the Oslo chess club Oslo Schackselskap.

References

• Some of Leif Øgaard's games at Chessgames.com
• List of winners of the Norwegian Chess Championship
• FIDE Rating card for Leif Øgaard

1. ↑ Rune Djurhuus gallery of Norway's grandmasters
2. ↑ Titles awarded at the Presidential Board Meeting in Tallinn, Estonia FIDE's website. Retrieved 26 June 2007

Norwegian chess grandmasters
There are 13 people from Norway who have been awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE.
Simen Agdestein Magnus Carlsen Rune Djurhuus Einar Gausel Jon Ludvig Hammer Leif Erlend Johannessen Kjetil Aleksander Lie Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen Aryan Tari Jonathan Tisdall Frode Urkedal Leif Øgaard Berge Østenstad