Sweden’s number one, 32-year-old chess grandmaster Nils Grandelius, is one of the most frequent participants in the Tepe Sigeman Chess Tournament.
He became a chess grandmaster in 2010 and has been a regular on the Swedish national team since then. In 2015, he won the Under 18 European Championship and the Swedish Championship, as well as the Abu Dhabi Masters. He has also shared first place in the Tepe Sigeman Chess Tournament three times (2013, 2017 and 2018). In the 2019 European Championship, he finished second after Russian GM Vladislav Artemiev.
Nils is participating in the Tepe Sigeman Chess Tournament for the fithteenth time.