GMNils Grandelius

Nils Grandelius was born in Lund in 1993. He won the Olomouc Open in 2008, earning his first grandmaster norm, and collected another there the following year. He completed the title requirements at Sarajevo's Bosna tournament in 2010. That year he also won world under-eighteen bronze and made his Olympiad debut for Sweden. He became European under-eighteen champion in 2011. His later development included sustained work with coach Evgenij Agrest. In 2015 he defeated Emanuel Berg in a playoff for the Swedish Championship. He also won the Abu Dhabi Masters that year. In 2016 he won the qualifying tournament for Norway Chess ahead of Jon Ludvig Hammer, Aryan Tari and Hou Yifan. He assisted Magnus Carlsen during the 2018 world-championship match. In 2019 he shared first place at the European Individual Championship and received silver on tiebreak. He later served as a second to Hikaru Nakamura at the 2024 Candidates Tournament.