GMNils Grandelius
- FIDE ID
- 1710400
About Nils 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. Show more
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.
FIDE rating history
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FIDE tournaments
| Date | Tournament | Type | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-17 | 41st European Chess Club Cup - OPEN | Classical | 3½ |
Available Games
Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-11-10 (UTC).
Online games are identified from known tournament names, playing sites and PGN mode. Other games are listed as OTB (over-the-board).
| # | Date | Event | Site | Round | White | Black | Result | Moves | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 701 | 2019-07-10 | Grandelius-McShane Match | Eskilstuna SWE | 3 | Nils Grandelius | Luke J McShane | 0-1 | 65 | Open |
| 702 | 2019-07-09 | Grandelius-McShane Match | Eskilstuna SWE | 2 | Nils Grandelius | Luke J McShane | 1/2-1/2 | 50 | Open |
| 703 | 2019-07-08 | Grandelius-McShane Match | Eskilstuna SWE | 1 | Luke J McShane | Nils Grandelius | 1/2-1/2 | 59 | Open |
| 704 | 2019-05-09 | 25th Sigeman & Co 2019 | Malmo SWE | 7.3 | Ivan Saric | Nils Grandelius | 1/2-1/2 | 59 | Open |
| 705 | 2019-05-08 | 25th Sigeman & Co 2019 | Malmo SWE | 6.3 | Nils Grandelius | Nihal Sarin | 1-0 | 31 | Open |
| 706 | 2019-05-07 | 25th Sigeman & Co 2019 | Malmo SWE | 5.3 | Nils Grandelius | Tiger Hillarp Persson | 1-0 | 56 | Open |
| 707 | 2019-05-06 | 25th Sigeman & Co 2019 | Malmo SWE | 4.2 | Parham Maghsoodloo | Nils Grandelius | 1/2-1/2 | 31 | Open |
| 708 | 2019-05-05 | 25th Sigeman & Co 2019 | Malmo SWE | 3.1 | Nils Grandelius | Pentala Harikrishna | 0-1 | 72 | Open |
| 709 | 2019-05-04 | 25th Sigeman & Co 2019 | Malmo SWE | 2.2 | Gawain C B Maroroa Jones | Nils Grandelius | 1/2-1/2 | 29 | Open |
| 710 | 2019-05-03 | 25th Sigeman & Co 2019 | Malmo SWE | 1.3 | Nils Grandelius | Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu | 1/2-1/2 | 22 | Open |
| 711 | 2019-04-16 | GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2019 | Reykjavik ISL | 9.3 | Sabino Brunello | Nils Grandelius | 0-1 | 64 | Open |
| 712 | 2019-04-15 | GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2019 | Reykjavik ISL | 8.2 | Abhijeet Gupta | Nils Grandelius | 1/2-1/2 | 65 | Open |
| 713 | 2019-04-14 | GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2019 | Reykjavik ISL | 7.3 | Nils Grandelius | David J Eggleston | 1-0 | 56 | Open |
| 714 | 2019-04-13 | GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2019 | Reykjavik ISL | 6.6 | Bragi Thorfinnsson | Nils Grandelius | 0-1 | 39 | Open |
| 715 | 2019-04-11 | GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2019 | Reykjavik ISL | 5.1 | Nils Grandelius | Robert Hovhannisyan | 0-1 | 51 | Open |
| 716 | 2019-04-10 | GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2019 | Reykjavik ISL | 4.2 | Prithu Gupta | Nils Grandelius | 0-1 | 25 | Open |
| 717 | 2019-04-09 | GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2019 | Reykjavik ISL | 3.12 | Nils Grandelius | Dinara Saduakassova | 1-0 | 69 | Open |
| 718 | 2019-04-09 | GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2019 | Reykjavik ISL | 2.2 | Nils Grandelius | Zhen Yu Cyrus Low | 1/2-1/2 | 61 | Open |
| 719 | 2019-04-08 | GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2019 | Reykjavik ISL | 1.2 | Henk-Jan Visser | Nils Grandelius | 0-1 | 51 | Open |
| 720 | 2019-03-29 | 20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 | Skopje MKD | 11.2 | Benjamin Gledura | Nils Grandelius | 0-1 | 30 | Open |
| 721 | 2019-03-28 | 20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 | Skopje MKD | 10.2 | Nils Grandelius | David Anton Guijarro | 1/2-1/2 | 52 | Open |
| 722 | 2019-03-27 | 20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 | Skopje MKD | 9.2 | Andrey Esipenko | Nils Grandelius | 1/2-1/2 | 28 | Open |
| 723 | 2019-03-26 | 20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 | Skopje MKD | 8.1 | Nils Grandelius | Kacper Piorun | 1/2-1/2 | 22 | Open |
| 724 | 2019-03-25 | 20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 | Skopje MKD | 7.3 | Alexandr Predke | Nils Grandelius | 0-1 | 44 | Open |
| 725 | 2019-03-24 | 20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 | Skopje MKD | 6.7 | Nils Grandelius | Viktor Erdos | 1-0 | 31 | Open |
| 726 | 2019-03-22 | 20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 | Skopje MKD | 5.14 | Alexander Donchenko | Nils Grandelius | 0-1 | 34 | Open |
| 727 | 2019-03-21 | 20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 | Skopje MKD | 4.34 | Nils Grandelius | Vincent Keymer | 1-0 | 29 | Open |
| 728 | 2019-03-20 | 20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 | Skopje MKD | 3.2 | Sergei Azarov | Nils Grandelius | 1-0 | 59 | Open |
| 729 | 2019-03-19 | 20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 | Skopje MKD | 2.4 | Nils Grandelius | Kirill Stupak | 1-0 | 31 | Open |
| 730 | 2019-03-18 | 20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 | Skopje MKD | 1.9 | Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis | Nils Grandelius | 0-1 | 47 | Open |
| 731 | 2019-03-14 | 12th World Teams 2019 | Astana KAZ | 9.2 | Michael Adams | Nils Grandelius | 1-0 | 47 | Open |
| 732 | 2019-03-13 | 12th World Teams 2019 | Astana KAZ | 8.1 | Nils Grandelius | Sergey Karjakin | 1/2-1/2 | 30 | Open |
| 733 | 2019-03-12 | 12th World Teams 2019 | Astana KAZ | 7.4 | Yangyi Yu | Nils Grandelius | 1/2-1/2 | 31 | Open |
| 734 | 2019-03-11 | 12th World Teams 2019 | Astana KAZ | 6.4 | Nils Grandelius | Dariusz Swiercz | 1/2-1/2 | 32 | Open |
| 735 | 2019-03-09 | 12th World Teams 2019 | Astana KAZ | 5.5 | Bassem Amin | Nils Grandelius | 1-0 | 37 | Open |
| 736 | 2019-03-08 | 12th World Teams 2019 | Astana KAZ | 4.5 | Nils Grandelius | Arkadij Naiditsch | 1-0 | 45 | Open |
| 737 | 2019-03-07 | 12th World Teams 2019 | Astana KAZ | 3.5 | Parham Maghsoodloo | Nils Grandelius | 1-0 | 37 | Open |
| 738 | 2019-03-06 | 12th World Teams 2019 | Astana KAZ | 2.5 | Nils Grandelius | Rinat Jumabayev | 1/2-1/2 | 39 | Open |
| 739 | 2019-03-05 | 12th World Teams 2019 | Astana KAZ | 1.1 | B. Adhiban | Nils Grandelius | 1-0 | 31 | Open |
| 740 | 2019-03-03 | Bundesliga 2018-19 | Berlin GER | 11.3 | Nils Grandelius | David Navara | 1/2-1/2 | 48 | Open |
| 741 | 2019-03-02 | Bundesliga 2018-19 | Berlin GER | 10.4 | Luke J McShane | Nils Grandelius | 1-0 | 58 | Open |
| 742 | 2019-03-01 | Bundesliga 2018-19 | Berlin GER | 9.2 | Ivan Salgado Lopez | Nils Grandelius | 1/2-1/2 | 28 | Open |
| 743 | 2019-02-10 | 4NCL Div 1b 2018-19 | Telford ENG | 6.61 | Nils Grandelius | Stephen J Gordon | 1-0 | 62 | Open |
| 744 | 2019-02-09 | 4NCL Div 1b 2018-19 | Telford ENG | 5.51 | Viktor Erdos | Nils Grandelius | 1/2-1/2 | 19 | Open |
| 745 | 2019-02-03 | Bundesliga 2018-19 | Hamburg GER | 8.6 | Nils Grandelius | Vladimir Malakhov | 1/2-1/2 | 51 | Open |
| 746 | 2019-02-02 | Bundesliga 2018-19 | Hamburg GER | 7.5 | Ivan Cheparinov | Nils Grandelius | 1/2-1/2 | 45 | Open |
| 747 | 2019-01-31 | Gibraltar Masters 2019 | Caleta ENG | 10.4 | Hikaru Nakamura | Nils Grandelius | 1/2-1/2 | 45 | Open |
| 748 | 2019-01-30 | Gibraltar Masters 2019 | Caleta ENG | 9.13 | Nils Grandelius | Wenjun Ju | 1-0 | 58 | Open |
| 749 | 2019-01-29 | Gibraltar Masters 2019 | Caleta ENG | 8.4 | David Navara | Nils Grandelius | 1-0 | 51 | Open |
| 750 | 2019-01-28 | Gibraltar Masters 2019 | Caleta ENG | 7.3 | Nils Grandelius | Quang Liem Le | 1/2-1/2 | 74 | Open |