Author: Mattias Skærved

Why play chess? I pose this question to Einar Dagur Brynjarsson and Gudrun Fanney Briem, who are playing chess in the Analysis Room. Both are in Group E, the group for the tournaments youngest...

Chess isn’t everything. But it may well lead to a lot. I have run into Omar Salama. He is not in Fredericia to play chess, nor is his children. As the only person in...

I run into Elias Peterson and Rókur Davidsen from the Faroe Islands in the dining room of Hotel Fredericia. The grown-ups at one table, Elias and Rókur of course playing chess at another. Both...