#95. Peter Heine Nielsen Looks Back On Norway Chess!

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Peter Heine Nielsen reflecting on the recent Norway Chess tournament.

This week’s episode of the New In Chess Podcast features an interview with Danish grandmaster Peter Heine Nielsen. Today’s interview reaches you once again from Oslo, where the 14th edition of Norway Chess ended in a stunning victory for Indian grandmaster Praggnanandhaa. ‘Pragg’ sensationally won his last four games and on the final day he leapfrogged Wesley So to pip the American at the post. In the Norway Chess Women’s tournament, first place had already been secured in the penultimate round by the new star of women’s chess, Bibisara Assaubayeva from Kazakhstan. This year Norway Chess moved from Stavanger, its home for thirteen years, to the Norwegian capital Oslo. There, in the heart of the city, the spectacular Deichman library was the venue. In this second episode from Oslo, New In Chess editor-in-chief Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam talks to an old friend of the podcast, international grandmaster and five-time Danish champion Peter Heine Nielsen. Of course, these days we know Peter best as the trainer of the world’s number one player, Magnus Carlsen. As Dirk Jan interviews Peter, he looks back on a wonderfully successful Norway Chess that for two weeks got enormous international…

People in this episode

Host: Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam

Guest: Peter Heine Nielsen

Topics covered

• Norway Chess
• chess tournaments
• interview with grandmaster
• Magnus Carlsen
• women's chess
• Danish chess

Keywords

• Norway Chess
• Peter Heine Nielsen
• Magnus Carlsen
• Praggnanandhaa
• chess tournament
• Oslo
• women's chess
• Bibisara Assaubayeva

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Norway Chess, Chess.com

Places: Oslo, Stavanger, Deichman library

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