The chess games of Olaf Barda

Number of games in database: 109
Years covered: 1930 to 1971

Overall record: +43 -35 =31 (53.7%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS

With the White pieces:

Queen's Pawn Game (6)
    D02 E00
King's Indian (6)
    E67 E64 E87 E65 E63
Ruy Lopez (5)
    C90 C84 C75 C91 C81

With the Black pieces:

Sicilian (10)
    B50 B28 B20 B58 B70
Nimzo Indian (8)
    E40 E32 E26 E20
Queen's Pawn Game (4)
    E00 A46 E10 D05

Repertoire Explorer

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   O Barda vs E Book, 1947 1-0
   O Barda vs Foltys, 1951 1-0
   E Adam vs O Barda, 1950 0-1
   O Barda vs L Watzl, 1950 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Jonkoping 1958/59 (1958)
   Nordic Congress, Copenhagen (1946)
   Metger Memorial (1961)
   Nordic Zonal, Helsinki (1947)
   Marianske Lazne / Prague Zonal (1951)
   Bucharest (1953)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   1st World Correspondence Chess Championship by Benzol
   Nordic Zonal, Helsinki 1947 by Chessdreamer

OLAF BARDA
(born Aug-17-1909, died May-02-1971, 61 years old) Norway

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Olaf Martinius Olsen was born in Oslo as the 5th child of Agnethe Olsen and seaman Ole Olsen. He changed his name to Barda in 1942. Awarded the IM title in 1952, and the GMC title in 1953, he was Norwegian Champion in 1930, 1947, 1948, 1952, 1953 and 1957. Among his best tournaments were Copenhagen 1947 (1st, ahead of Jens Enevoldsen and Daniel Abraham Yanofsky), Marianske Lazne / Prague Zonal (1951) (9th, IM title) and Jonkoping (1958/59) (1st= with Alexander Kotov, ahead of Viacheslav Ragozin).

He was a known problem composer and author of endgame studies. His book Sjakk! (Oslo 1943) was with its later editions a source for Norwegian players. After the war in 1945 he was a founder of the Norwegian Correspondence Chess (CC) Federation; he was then also an editor of the chess magazine Sjakkliv. He promoted chess on the radio, and during 1955-1971 he edited the daily chess column in the newspaper Dagbladet. Before this he also had chess columns in Magasinet for Alle (1935-1954) and in Swedish Schackvärlden (during the war). He was Norwegian CC champion in 1946 and 1950, and in 1953 he came 4th in the 1st World CC Championship.

Olaf Barda passed away in Oslo in 1971. On average he was probably Norway's strongest player in the period 1930 to 1960, and the first one to achieve an IM title. According to some sources (e. g. OlimpBase of 2011) he played for Norway in the 1956 olympiad, but that was his son Yngvar Barda (1935-1999).

Sources: http://www.sjakk.no/nsf/norsk_sjakk... (pp. 10-14), http://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Olaf_Ba... and Wikipedia article: Olaf Barda. OlimpBase: http://www.olimpbase.org/players/0u...

Wikipedia article: Olaf Barda

Last updated: 2024-07-19 21:25:56

page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 109

Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. S Khan vs O Barda	1-0	27	1930	Hamburg Olympiad	C01 French, Exchange
2. O Barda vs Flohr	0-1	22	1930	Hamburg Olympiad	E30 Nimzo-Indian, Leningrad
3. O Barda vs Petrov	0-1	14	1930	Hamburg Olympiad	D37 Queen's Gambit Declined
4. O Barda vs Maroczy	1-0	26	1930	Hamburg Olympiad	D61 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
5. O Barda vs J van den Bosch	½-½	40	1930	Hamburg Olympiad	D53 Queen's Gambit Declined
6. E Madsen vs O Barda	1-0	34	1930	Norwegian Championship	C14 French, Classical
7. E Myhre vs O Barda	½-½	34	1930	Norwegian Championship Playoff	D51 Queen's Gambit Declined
8. E Myhre vs O Barda	1-0	40	1946	NOR-ch	D30 Queen's Gambit Declined
9. O Barda vs P Hage	1-0	25	1946	Nordic Congress, Copenhagen	D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical
10. O Barda vs B Moller	0-1	50	1946	Nordic Congress, Copenhagen	E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
11. B Nielsen vs O Barda	0-1	67	1946	Nordic Congress, Copenhagen	E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
12. M Kupferstich vs O Barda	0-1	43	1946	Nordic Congress, Copenhagen	A07 King's Indian Attack
13. B Nielsen vs O Barda	0-1	28	1947	Copenhagen It.	E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
14. P Hage vs O Barda	½-½	61	1947	NOR-DEN radio match	B50 Sicilian
15. O Barda vs P Hage	0-1	33	1947	NOR-DEN radio match	D02 Queen's Pawn Game
16. O Barda vs A Asgeirsson	½-½	30	1947	Nordic Zonal, Helsinki	E17 Queen's Indian
17. J A Fred vs O Barda	1-0	64	1947	Nordic Zonal, Helsinki	D05 Queen's Pawn Game
18. O Barda vs A Vestol	½-½	30	1947	Nordic Zonal, Helsinki	B58 Sicilian
19. G Gudmundsson vs O Barda	½-½	33	1947	Nordic Zonal, Helsinki	D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
20. O Barda vs E Book	1-0	17	1947	Nordic Zonal, Helsinki	D02 Queen's Pawn Game
21. H Carlsson vs O Barda	1-0	17	1947	Nordic Zonal, Helsinki	B07 Pirc
22. O Barda vs O Kinnmark	½-½	33	1947	Nordic Zonal, Helsinki	A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
23. O Barda vs G Stoltz	0-1	37	1947	Nordic Zonal, Helsinki	D02 Queen's Pawn Game
24. E Lundin vs O Barda	0-1	70	1947	Nordic Zonal, Helsinki	A26 English
25. O Barda vs J Enevoldsen	1-0	31	1947	Nordic Zonal, Helsinki	C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed


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