Anna Cramling Bellon is only 15 years old but has already competed on the Swedish team in the Chess Olympiad and has travelled as a player all over the world. That's perhaps not surprising considering she is the daughter of GM Pia Cramling, who was the third woman to earn the FIDE Grandmaster title in tournament play, and Spanish GM Juan Manuel Bellon — quite a chess pedigree!
In the film below, Anna speaks about why chess is so much fun and why it is better than all other games.
Pia and six-year-old Anna Cramling Bellon at the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden | Photo: Macauley Peterson
Christer Fuglesang is associate professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, and he is also an astronaut. He loves chess and together with Swedish grandmaster Jesper Hall he wrote a book about chess for children called "Schackjakten".
In the film he speaks about why chess makes you smart and what it was like to play chess in space.
Christer Fuglesang with his velcro chess set "sitting in a tin can far above the world..." | Photo: Christer Fuglesang
Anna will be at the Swedish bookfair — "Scandinavia's largest cultural event" — in Gothenburg, September 29th to 30th in Fri Tanke's exhibition booth (B03:22).
Challenge her and win a free book...if you can beat her!
