Tarva Chess Festival
After winning Bondeofferet and TSSK NVGP I was suddenly the leader in the “Norske Vandrerhjem Grand Prix” (Norwegian Hostels GP). This meant I had no choice but to sign up for Tarva Chess Festival, to try to gather even more GP-points. You may ask why…well, the prize money is very good.
Tarva Chess Festival (20-21th June) was divided into two tournaments, one blitz and one rapid. In the 18-round blitz tournament I played very good, only losing to FM Kjetil Stokke and Stig Martinsen, both from Bergen. In the rapid tournament I was hoping to give the guys from Bergen a closer fight, but failed badly 
Thus, I didn’t get the GP-points I needed in the master’s class. However, in class 1 and class 2 I scored well, giving me the maximum score of 120 points in both.
At the end of the NVGP-season my final positions were:
Master: 3rd
Class 1: 2nd
Class 2: 2nd
This gave me prize money of 2000 + 4250 + 2500 = 8750,-
Not bad at all!!!