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About Frode Elsness
- Frode Elsness (born June 15, 1973) is a Norwegian chess player who holds the title of International Master, as well as the 2008 Norwegian Chess Championship.
- Elsness plays for the chess club in Moss.
- Apart from chess, Elsness is a medical doctor. Elsness was away from chess after dropping out of the Gausdal Classics tournament in 2001.
- The cause was an incident in the fifth-round game.
- Elsness' return to organized chess came in 2004, where he finished fourth in the Norwegian championship.
- In 2007, Elsness won the Open Norwegian Championship for rapid chess.Elsness' first Norwegian Chess Championship came in 2008.
- Elsness and Jon Ludvig Hammer both finished with 6.5/9 points in the main event in Tønsberg in July.
- The play-off between the two players was arranged September 26–27 in Moss.
- Elsness won the first game with White, and held the draw with Black, securing a 1.5-0.5 victory, and his first championship trophy.Six times Elsnes has represented Norway in the Chess Olympiad: 1996 (second reserve), 2000 (board two), 2004 (second reserve), 2010 (board 3), 2012 (board 1) and 2014 (in group B, at board 2).
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