{{short description|Norwegian chess player and magazine editor (born 1982)}} {{Use dmy dates |date=August 2023}} {{Infobox chess biography | name = Silje Bjerke | image = File:Bjerke silje 20081120 olympiade dresden.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1982|7|15|df=y}} | birth_place = | title = Woman International Master (2009) | rating = | country = Norway | peakrating = 2249 (September 2012) | FideID = 1502786 }}
'''Silje Bjerke''' (born 15 July 1982) is a Norwegian chess player and magazine editor. She holds the title Woman International Master, and has competed for Norway in the Women's Chess Olympiad seven times.
==Biography== Born on 15 July 1982,<ref name=snl/> Bjerke achieved the title Woman FIDE Master in 2006, and was awarded the Woman International Master title in 2009.<ref name=FideProfile/><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=sjakk – Norske internasjonale mestere |first=Rolf |last=Bryhn |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/sjakk_-_Norske_internasjonale_mestere |language=Norwegian |accessdate=6 April 2023 }}</ref>
She has represented Norway in seven Women's Chess Olympiads, in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bjerke, Silje |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/mawmu46d.html |website=olimpbase.org |accessdate=6 April 2023 }}</ref>
From 2009 to 2013 she was running the chess company Sjakkhuset, along with Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen and {{ill|Torstein Bae|no}}. She edited the periodical ''Norsk Sjakkblad'' from 2009 to 2014.<ref name=snl/>
She was licensed FIDE National Arbiter in 2016.<ref name=FideProfile/>
==References== {{Reflist |refs= <ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Silje Bjerke |first=Sheila |last=Stanford |author-link=Sheila Barth Stanford |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Silje_Bjerke |language=no |access-date=6 April 2023}}</ref> <ref name=FideProfile>{{cite web |title=FIDE Chess Profile |url=https://ratings.fide.com/profile/1502786 |publisher=FIDE |accessdate=6 April 2023 }}</ref> }}
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