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Simen Agdestein
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Norwegian chess player, chess coach and football player
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1967-05-15 ) 15 May 1967 (age 59) , Asker , Norway
- Spouse
- Marianne Aasen ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1996 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2008 )
- Title
- Grandmaster (1985)
- Fide rating
- 2525 (June 2026)
- Peak rating
- 2637 (July 2014)
- Peak ranking
- No. 16 (July 1989)
- Height
- Association football career Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
- Position
- Forward
- Years
- Team
- 1984 1992
- Lyn
- 1988 1989
- Norway
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Simen
- Family name
- Agdestein
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Asker
- Spouse
- Marianne Aasen
- Sibling
- Espen Agdestein
- Occupation
- speed skater
- Languages spoken
- Norwegian
- Participant in
- 35th Chess Olympiad
- Sport
- chess
- Member of team
- Norway national under-21 association football team
- Position played
- forward
- Country for sport
- Norway
- Image
- Simen Agdestein NM Bergen 2009.jpg
- Height
- 188
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- Simen Agdestein
- date of birth
- 1967-05-15
- title of chess person
- International Master
- Elo rating
- 2563
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Encyclopedic overview
Simen Agdestein (born 15 May 1967) 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. He is also the former coach of Magnus Carlsen, and brother of Carlsen's manager, Espen Agdestein. He has written and co-written several books on chess, including a biography of Carlsen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simen Agdestein” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.