| Tom Wedberg | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Tom Wedberg |
| Country | Sweden |
| Born | November 26, 1953 Sweden |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2503 (July 2010) |
| Peak rating | 2540 (July 2002) |
Tom Wedberg (born 26 November 1953, Stockholm) is a Swedish chess Grandmaster (1991).
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In 2000, he won the Swedish Chess Championship.[1] In 1981 tied for 1st with Petar Velikov and Shaun Taulbut in the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen, but was clear first in 1982.[2] In 1999 he won the Scandic Hotels Chess Cup in Stockholm.[3] He tied for 2nd–4th (with Artur Yusupov and Tomi Nyback) in the 32nd Rilton Cup in Stockholm 2003.[4]
Wedberg played for Sweden in the Chess Olympiads of 1978, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1990, 1992[5] and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1980, 1989 and 2001.[6]
According to Chessmetrics, at his peak in September 1984 Wedberg's play was equivalent to a rating of 2630, and he was ranked number 77 in the world. His best single performance was at Amsterdam (OHRA), 1984, where he scored 4.5 of 8 possible points (56%) against 2665-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2663.[7]
In the July 2010 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2503, making him Sweden's ninth highest ranked player.