About Simen Agdestein
Simen Agdestein is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, chess coach, author, and former professional footballer as a striker for the Norway national football team. Agdestein won nine Norwegian Chess Championships between 1982 and 2023. Agdestein became Norwegian national champion at the age of 15, an International Master at 16 and a grandmaster at 18. Agdestein has represented his country seven times at the Chess Olympiad, mostly playing first board and winning an individual (board 4) gold medal at his first appearance in 1982. In 1995, he was awarded a master's degree from the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo.
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