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Erik Gustav Berg |
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Non-Chess Life
Erik Gustav Berg, which name was a slightly Anglicised version of the Swedish Erik Gustaf Berg, was born to Carl Ludvig Berg and Alma Amalia Storm on 17/05/1905 in Östergötland, Sweden. (UK death records, 1939 Register, and Swedish birth records all match as to the date of birth.)
Quite when and under what circumstances he came to England is unclear.
E C Berg was already playing chess in Bradford in 1933, so was presumably resident there at the time.
He was 26 years of age when he married Vera Rawbon (born 1906, Halifax), in 1934, in Halifax. The couple had at least one child:
The 1939 Register found the family at 9 Ederoyd Drive, Pudsey (sandwiched between Bradford and Leeds). Erik was a colour matcher with a worsted spinner.
In 1958, daughter Sandra married Roy S Manock in 1958, in somewhere in Wharfedale.
Chess
E G Berg played in Bradford in the Woodhouse Cup at least from 1933 to 1949 (see 1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36 and 1946-47) and probably outside that period.
He played in county matches both over the board, e.g. 1932-33, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36 and 1937-38, and by correspondence, e.g. 1937-38 and 1938-39, and presumably after that.
E G Berg won the 1938-39 Kitchin Memorial Correspondence competition with 6 points out of 7.
Death
Erik Gustav Berg died in 1993, in Leeds.
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