Berge Østenstad

Berge Østenstad
Country	Norway
Born	(1964-09-15) 15 September 1964 Asker, Norway
Title	Grandmaster (2003)
FIDE rating	2427 (December 2024)
Peak rating	2506 (October 2004)

Berge Østenstad (born 15 September 1964) is a Norwegian chess player and Norway's sixth International Grandmaster. Østenstad plays for the chess club in Asker. He appears on the official FIDE rating list as "Ostenstad, Berge".

Berge Østenstad has won more Norwegian Chess Championships than any other player apart from Simen Agdestein, eight in total. He won in 1984, 1990, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2011. He played for Norway in the Chess Olympiads of 1984, 1990 and 2004.

Østenstad gained the title of International Master in 1987. He achieved his first GM norm in Gausdal in 1990, his second in Biel in 1990 and the third in Gothenburg in 2003. His rating peaked the required 2500 in 1991. The Biel norm came after FIDE liberalized the requirements for GM norms by allowing them to be achieved before the tournament ended, and made these changes retroactive.

References

• Hansen, Victor (2003). "Vår neste stormester". Norsk Sjakkblad nr.1 2003, p. 4

External links

• Berge Ostenstad player profile and games at Chessgames.com