Olafur Magnússon

Olafur Magnússon is an Icelandic chess player, and two-time winner of the Icelandic Chess Championship.

Biography

From the beginning of the 1960s to the mid-1970s Olafur Magnússon was one of the leading Icelandic chess players. He twice won the Icelandic Chess Championships: in 1970 after play-off against Ingvar Ásmundsson and in 1973 after play-off against Magnús Sólmundarson.
Olafur Magnússon played for Iceland in the Chess Olympiads:

In 1960, at fourth board in the 14th Chess Olympiad in Leipzig,
In 1970, at fourth board in the 19th Chess Olympiad in Siegen,
In 1972, at second reserve board in the 20th Chess Olympiad in Skopje.