Nils Bergkvist


Nils Valentin Bergkvist or Nils Bergqvist was a Swedish chess master.
He shared first in the national tournament at Lund 1933, took 5th at Stockholm 1937, played a match with Salo Landau at Stockholm 1937, twice tied for 3rd-4th, with Ernst Larsson at Kalmar 1938, and with Allan Bergkvist at Stockholm 1938, tied for 2nd with Rudolf Spielmann, behind Gideon Ståhlberg, at Stockholm 1939, and won at Stockholm 1940.
He thrice represented Sweden in Chess Olympiads. Playing on the fourth board, he won individual bronze medal in 1950.