- Johannes Giersing
Infobox chess player
playername = Johannes Giersing
birthname = Johannes Hjalmar Giersing
country = DEN
datebirth = birth date|1872|11|18
placebirth =Odense
datedeath = death date and age|1954|11|11|1872|11|18
placedeath =Copenhagen
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peakrating =Johannes Hjalmar Giersing (18 November 1872,
Odense - 11 November 1954,Copenhagen ) was a Danish chess master.At the beginning of his career, he tied for 4-5th in Copenhagen 1895 (
Andreas Rosendahl won). Giersing played several times inNordic Chess Championship , and won at Kristiania (now Oslo) 1903 (4th Nord-ch). He also took 6th at Copenhagen 1899 (2nd Nord-ch,Jörgen Möller won); tied for 5-6th at Göteborg 1901 (3rd Nord-ch, Möller won); took 10th at Stockholm 1906 (Ossip Bernstein andCarl Schlechter won), took 10th at Stockholm 1912 (8th Nord-ch,Alexander Alekhine won), tied for 6-7th at Copenhagen 1916 (9th Nord-ch,Paul Johner won), took 5th at Kristiania 1917 (10th Nord-ch,Gustaf Nyholm won), and took 11th at Copenhagen 1924 (12th Nord-ch,Aron Nimzowitsch won).Giersing won the Danish Championship at Copenhagen 1915, won at Copenhagen 1918, and took 3rd at Aarhus 1925 (DEN-ch,
Erik Andersen won). [http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdfName Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=12780 The chess games of Johannes Giersing]
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