Eric Jonsson


Eric Jonsson was a Sweden chess player.

Biography

Eric Jonsson was one of Sweden’s strongest chess players in the 1920s and 1930s. He was six-time Gothenburg chess champion. In 1937, Eric Jonsson played a small demonstration match with Reuben Fine - ½: 1½. In 1948, with the Swedish national team, he participated in a number of international chess matches with the teams of Denmark and Norway.
Eric Jonsson has played for Sweden in the Chess Olympiads: