Top Chess Players in Sweden

GM Nils Grandelius 2662 | #44

Nils Grandelius is a Swedish grandmaster and the top-ranked player in that country (as of February 2021). He won the Swedish Chess Championship in 2015 and as a junior took the under-18 World Youth Chess Champions in 2010. In 2019, Grandelius spent several months ranked among the world’s top-50...

GM Vitaly Sivuk

GM Platon Galperin

IM Jung Min Seo

GM Emanuel Berg

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GM Erik Blomqvist

IM Hampus Sorensen

IM Edvin Trost 2459 | #446

IM Isak Storme 2453 | #469

GM Jonathan Westerberg 2452 | #475

IM Kaan Kucuksari

IM Martin Lokander 2444 | #521

IM Milton Pantzar 2444 | #521

GM Axel Smith

IM Ludvig Carlsson

IM Linus Johansson 2425 | #608

GM Daniel Semcesen

GM Tiger Hillarp Persson

IM Emil Hermansson

IM William Olsson

GM Pia Cramling 2384 | #877

When you think of Scandinavian chess greats, world champion GM Magnus Carlsen of Norway is probably the first who comes to mind. Denmark had the great GM Bent Larsen in his prime in the 1960s and 1970s, and Aron Nimzowitsch had immigrated there a half-century earlier. GM Johann Hjartarson of Iceland...

FM Joar Olund

FM Adrian Soderstrom 2379 | #917

FM Carl Cederstam Barsk

IM Axel Falkevall