Ragnar Hoen
Ragnar Hoen was a Norwegian chess FIDE Master, three-time Norwegian Chess Championship winner, and Nordic Chess Championship winner.
Biography
Hoen represented the club. From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s, Ragnar Hoen was one of the leading Norwegian chess players. He won Norwegian Chess Championships three times: 1963, 1978, and 1981. In the championship in 1981, Ragnar Hoen shared first place with three other players but was the only one who accepted a rematch and thus won the championship. He also won the Nordic Chess Championship in 1967. Ragnar Hoen won the Norwegian Blitz Chess Championship twice in a row. He also won the Norwegian Senior Chess Championship six consecutive times in from 2002 to 2007.Ragnar Hoen played for Norway in the Chess Olympiads:
- in 1960, at the fourth board in the 14th Chess Olympiad in Leipzig,
- in 1962, at the third board in the 15th Chess Olympiad in Varna,
- in 1964, at the third board in the 16th Chess Olympiad in Tel Aviv,
- in 1966, at the third board in the 17th Chess Olympiad in Havana,
- in 1968, at the second board in the 18th Chess Olympiad in Lugano,
- in 1970, at the second board in the 19th Chess Olympiad in Siegen,
- in 1972, at the fourth board in the 20th Chess Olympiad in Skopje,
- in 1974, at the fourth board in the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice,
- in 1976, at the second board in the 22nd Chess Olympiad in Haifa,
- in 1978, at the fourth board in the 23rd Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires,
- in 1980, at the third board in the 24th Chess Olympiad in La Valletta,
- in 1982, at the second reserve board in the 25th Chess Olympiad in Lucerne.
- in 1989, at the first reserve board in the 9th European Team Chess Championship in Haifa.
Ragnar Hoen was also known as a chess journalist. He edited a column in the newspaper Vårt Land and a bulletin of the Norwegian Chess Federation. Ragnar Hoen served on the board of Tidemanns Tobakk.
His nephew was Steinar Hoen, a Norwegian high jumper and European Champion in 1994.