Jørgen Møller

{{short description|Danish chess player}}

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Jørgen Møller (sometimes Jorgen Moeller or Jörgen Möller) (4 November 1873 – 20 November 1944) was a Danish chess master.

Møller was twice a Nordic Champion, winning at Copenhagen 1899 (2nd Nord-ch) and at Gothenburg 1901 (3rd Nord-ch).[http://dsu9604.dsu.dk/nmny/100gb/gb-nm100.htm Nordic Champions 1897-1997] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207090436/http://dsu9604.dsu.dk/nmny/100gb/gb-nm100.htm |date=February 7, 2012 }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.schack.se/RK/ssfparm2003-05-20.pdf |title=Stadgar |access-date=2007-06-14 |archive-date=2007-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222659/http://www.schack.se/RK/ssfparm2003-05-20.pdf |url-status=dead }}[http://www.shakki.net/shakkipeli/historia/pm.html ShakkiNet - shakkipeli/historia2]

At the beginning of his career, he tied for 4-5th at Copenhagen 1895 (Andreas Rosendahl won), took 2nd, behind Sven Otto Svensson, at Stockholm 1897 (1st Nordic-ch), and took 4th at Copenhagen 1907 (6th Nord-ch, Paul Leonhardt won).[http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PlayerProfile.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S087879000000141000000000019710100 Chessmetrics Player Profile: Jørgen Møller]

In 1920, he tied for 13–14th in Gothenburg (Richard Réti won). In 1923, he took 6th in Copenhagen (Aron Nimzowitsch won).[http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |date=July 4, 2007 }}

His name is attached to the Møller Attack in the Giuoco Piano (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 ed4 6.cd4 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 Nxe4 8.0-0 Bxc3 9.d5) and the Møller Defense in the Ruy Lopez (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Bc5).{{cite book |author1=Litmanowicz, Władysław |author2=Giżycki, Jerzy| title=Szachy od A do Z | publisher=Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka Warszawa | year=1986–1987 |isbn=83-217-2481-7| id=(1. A-M), (2. N-Z)}}

Møller was born 4 November 1873 in Otterup, Denmark, and died 20 November 1944 in Copenhagen.{{citation | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige

| year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography | publisher=McFarland | isbn=0-7864-2353-6 | page=288}}