Norwegian chess grandmaster and footballer (born 1967)
Simen Agdestein
Agdestein at the Norwegian Chess Championship in Bergen, July 2009
Country
Norway
Born
(1967-05-15) 15 May 1967 (age 57) Asker, Norway
Title
Grandmaster (1985)
FIDE rating
2564 (June 2024)
Peak rating
2637 (July 2014)
Peak ranking
No. 16 (July 1989)
Association football career
Height
1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)
Forward
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
1984–1992
Lyn[1]
92
(37)
International career
1988–1989
Norway
8
(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Simen Agdestein (born 15 May 1967) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, chess coach, author, and former professional footballer as a striker for the Norway national football team.
Agdestein won nine Norwegian Chess Championships between 1982 and 2023. He is also the former coach of Magnus Carlsen, and brother of Carlsen's manager, Espen Agdestein. He has authored and co-authored several books on chess, including a biography of Carlsen.
^"Simen Agdestein som Lynspiller". Retrieved 4 December 2016.
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former coach of Magnus Carlsen, SimenAgdestein, and is himself a FIDE master, with a FIDE rating of 2372. Agdestein is one of the co-founders and partners...
grandmasters (GMs) Artur Yusupov, Sergey Dolmatov, Nigel Short and SimenAgdestein helped develop the system where Black plays an earlier ...d5 and places...
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Nordic player, Hammer became Norway's first Nordic Chess Champion since SimenAgdestein in 1992. Hammer won his first Norwegian Chess Championship in 2013...
medal in Norwegian Chess Championship (tournament won grandmaster SimenAgdestein). In August 2023, he won the Riga Technical University Open "A" tournament...
Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin, Peter Svidler, Anish Giri and SimenAgdestein. Agdestein qualified by defeating Jon Ludvig Hammer in a rapid match that...
age 16 he was the third youngest player to achieve this feat, after SimenAgdestein and Magnus Carlsen, who won at age 15. Tari secured his second grandmaster...
Parliament from Akershus in 2005. For twelve years she was married to SimenAgdestein, an International Grandmaster of chess and former Norwegian international...
Caruana played against Evgeny Bareev, Viktor Korchnoi, Artur Jussupow, SimenAgdestein, and Ljubomir Ljubojević. He scored +3 (6½/10) with performance of...
youngest grandmaster in the world at the time, being later supplanted by SimenAgdestein. Short's arrival on the World Chess Championship title began in earnest...
Johannessen who played the line from 1957 and later strengthened when SimenAgdestein and some other Norwegian players adopted the variation. In 1995 Jonathan...
Norwegian Chess Championship Oslo 30 June – 8 July National 2557+1⁄4 SimenAgdestein Dutch Chess Championship Utrecht 2–9 July National 2630+7⁄8 Anish Giri...
Polugaevsky), Brussels and Ter Apel (both 1987), Lyons 1988 (with SimenAgdestein), the strong New York (Open) 1992 as sole winner, Wiesbaden and Graz...
Australian rugby league player 1966 – Jiří Němec, Czech footballer 1967 – SimenAgdestein, Norwegian chess grandmaster and football player 1967 – Laura Hillenbrand...
Jon Speelman (England) 2530 0 ½ ½ 0 - ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 8 6 SimenAgdestein (Norway) 2500 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 7½ 54.00 7 Mišo Cebalo (Yugoslavia)...
1 0 Does not appear 2 3 2621 0 0 0 1 Does not appear ½ 1½ 4½ 6 GM SimenAgdestein (NOR) 2620 0 0 1 1 0 Does not appear 2 2575 0 0 0 1 ½ Does not appear...
Adorján (Hungary, born 1950) Vladimir Afromeev (Russia, born 1954) SimenAgdestein (Norway, born 1967) Evgeny Agrest (Belarus, Sweden, born 1966) Georgy...
sjakk 2021 – Eliteklassen Turneringsservice Svensen, Tarjei (July 12, 2023). "41 Years After His First Title in Norway SimenAgdestein Wins Again". v t e...
Grete Waitz, long distance Susanne Wigene, middle and long distance SimenAgdestein, chess player Bea Ballintijn, swimmer at the 1948 Summer Olympics Asbjørn...
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