{{short description|Danish chess player}} {{about|the Danish chess player Egil Jacobsen|the Swedish chess player called Ernst Jacobson|Ernst Jacobson|the footballer|Egil Jacobsen (footballer)}}
'''Egil Jacobsen''' (1897 – 27 March 1923)<ref name=Gaige>{{citation | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige | year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography | publisher=McFarland | isbn=0-7864-2353-6 | page=190}}</ref> was a Danish chess master.
He tied for 5-6th at Horsens 1915 (the 6th Danish Chess Championship, Johannes Giersing won), tied for 9-10th at Copenhagen 1916 (the 9th Nordic Chess Championship, B-tournament, Karl Berndtsson won),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1916kopen1.htm |title=kopenh1 |website=xoomer.virgilio.it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040106201409/http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1916kopen1.htm |archive-date=2004-01-06}} </ref> and twice won Danish championships at Grenaa 1917 and Copenhagen 1922. He took 5th at Copenhagen 1923 (Aron Nimzowitsch won),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1923kopenh.htm |title=Kopenh |access-date=2009-03-17 |archive-date=2012-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010043318/http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1923kopenh.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> and shared 2nd, behind Erik Andersen, at Copenhagen 1923 (DEN-ch).
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==External links== *{{chessgames player|id=31962}} (chessgames.com misattributes some 1928 Chess Olympiad games to Egil Jacobsen that were probably played by Ernst Jacobsen instead) *[http://www.365chess.com/players/Egil_Jacobsen Egil Jacobsen at 365Chess.com]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobsen, Egil}} Category:1897 births Category:1923 deaths Category:20th-century Danish chess players {{Denmark-chess-bio-stub}}