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26 may 1967 leningrad gothenburg , surte swedish gideon ståhlberg 26 january 1908 chess grandmaster gideon stahlberg 1961.jpg gideon ståhlberg
 anders gideon tom ståhlberg
gideon ståhlberg

anders gideon tom ståhlberg -lrb- or `` stahlberg '' -rrb- -lrb- 26 january 1908 , surte near gothenburg -- 26 may 1967 , leningrad -rrb- was a swedish chess grandmaster .
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 -lrb- after alekhine -rrb- in dresden 1936 , and second -lrb- after fine -rrb- in stockholm 1937 .
in 1938 he drew a match against keres .
following the chess olympiad in buenos aires 1939 , he stayed in argentina until 1948 , where he won many tournaments , some of them in competition with miguel najdorf : mar del plata 1941 -lrb- ahead of najdorf and eliskases -rrb- , buenos aires 1941 -lrb- tied with najdorf -rrb- , buenos aires 1947 -lrb- ahead of najdorf , eliskases and euwe -rrb- .
his best results after returning to europe were : the interzonal of saltsjöbaden 1948 -lrb- 6th , becoming a candidate -rrb- , the candidates tournament of budapest 1950 -lrb- 7th -rrb- , amsterdam 1950 -lrb- 3rd -rrb- , budapest 1952 -lrb- 3rd -rrb- , the interzonal of saltsjöbaden 1952 -lrb- 5th , again becoming a candidate -rrb- ståhlberg umpired in the five world championships between 1957 and 1963 .
in 1967 he travelled to leningrad to take part in an international tournament but died before playing his first game .
he was buried in gothenburg .
ståhlberg published more than ten chess books -lrb- some of them originally in spanish -rrb- : `` schack och schackmästare '' , 1937 -lrb- `` chess and chess masters '' , 1955 -rrb- `` el gambito de dama '' , 1942 -lrb- queen 's gambit -rrb- `` partidas clásicas de capablanca -lrb- la perfección en ajedrez -rrb- '' , 1943 -lrb- with paulino alles monasterio -rrb- -lrb- classic games of capablanca , perfection in chess -rrb- `` i kamp med världseliten '' , 1958 -lrb- in battle against the world elite -rrb- `` strövtåg i schackvärlden '' -lrb- excursions in the world of chess , 1965 -rrb- `` tal-botvinnik ii match '' , 1969 `` modern spelöppningsteori i schack '' `` svenska schackmästare ''
