I was born in Eskilstuna on January 26, 1981. I live in, works in and owns a appartment in central Eskilstuna, very close to the train station.
I work as a computer programmer, mainly in ASP.NET using C#, CSS and SQL. I also use a lots of HTML and Javascript developing. I do most of my work from my home office.
I got a Scholarship from SYSteam when graduating from Rekarne Gymnasiet. I also have Degree of University Diploma at Mälardalen University.
I like to play Chess, go for a walk, gym, read history books, watch DVDs, play RTS games, play Commodore 64 games, drink whisky and to play with my cat.
I bought a robotcat that I call Charlie. He looks like real cat but has a on and off button so one can leave him without problems and that is an advantage since I live in the city and I think real cats should live on the countryside. He can say "Mjau", purr like a cat when playing with him, he lick his paws, he moves hes head, he blink hes eyes and he lie down on hes back and he can even get sleepy. He can however not walk and he only eats batteries.
Height: 1.95 meter.
Weight: Intervall between 108 to 118 KG.
Shoe size: 46 EU.
Star sign: Aquarius (Vattumannen).
Favorite food: Medium rare steak with potato gratin.
Favorite drink: Irish coffee.
Favorite desert: Glace au four.
Favorite candy: Fazer Gröna Kulor.
Nickname: Brage.
Pet: A cat called Charlie.
Drinks to lunch at home: Normal light cow milk from Arla.
I read a lot of books and I own a large collection of Chess books, programming books, history books, and fiction books.
I like and own several music albums from for example Kent, Magnus Uggla, Nordman and Sarek.
I also collect movies. My favorit program is "A Game of Thrones".
I have also retained all my notes from both Komvux and from Mälardalen University.
Here bellow is small list of some of my favorite books.
When I became 30 years old I got interviewed in both local newspappers.
I have also been mention in Swedish Chess Federation magazine TFS.
I play Chess at clublevel since 1997. My best score is 2nd place in Eskilstuna SK Club Championship in Chess 2023, 2nd place in Eskilstuna Chess Championship 2022 and 2nd place in Distric Championship 2022. I got a few top 3 best scorer in other editions of these events.
I have also lots of top 3 best scorer results in different types of Eskilstuna SK events with shorter time controls, a small example of a few of these events. I play lots of online Chess online at Lichess. My best period at local club was from April 2020 (first Eskilstuna Online Championship started do to pandemic) untill June 2024. During this period I won several medals both in online events and in normal eye to eye Chess.
I also play Correspondence Chess at ICCF where I play official team matches for Team Sweden and have a CCM title.
I played in handball with GUIF as junior and got 3rd place in Swedish Junior handball championship in 1999 and won Järnvägen Cup 1999.
I like to play retro videogames where I collect modern different retro videogame and computer replicate consoles. I own a "The C64 Maxi model" computer, a "My Arcade Pocket Player Atari" console, a "NES TV Retro Game" console and a "Sega Megadrive Flashback HD" console. I also own some arcade game single game only machines of "PacMan", "Miss PacMan", "Bubble Bobble", "Game & Watch: Zelda" and "Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros".
Each replicate console has lots of build in games. The "Sega Megadrive Flashback HD" is unique in the sense that it can also play old Megadrive cartridges besides the build in games. I have not tried my old cartridges yet since I have my old Sega Megadrive original machine and several games stored somewhere in the attic storage. I bought some old very cheap cartrides at a secondhand store to try out the machines limits and they work. I also own a old MegeDrive Turbo joystick at attice storage, not shure it also works.
The retro machine that I play mostly on are my Commodore 64 "maxi" model. The Commodore 64 "maxi" model is a "remake" of the classical world record best selling computer model from 1982 where I bought the "maxi" model to get a real keyboard. The retromachine has USB ports and HDMI output. There is also a cheaper smaller "mini" model with a small decoration only keyboard and fewer USB ports so USB hubs are needed if attaching usb stick, keyboard and exra joystick. Both models has lots of build in games. The original model was my first home computer, my family bought one in 1986. I both played games and made some simple BASIC programming. I updated firmwire to be able to download and play my old original tapegames using USB. Some of my old games I downloaded was double sided so I had to Google how to switch tapes in the middle of a game. I only found at how to do it in Classical mode not Carusell mode. Its actually easy, first play the first tape file. Then when it time change attached tape file but not load it, only return to game.
I have also been interested in a "Mini Amiga 500" computer since the game "Battle Chess" is included in build on games list. The machines comes with 25 build in games, a joypad and a mouse. Like the both the "retro Commodore 64" models its possible to uppgradera firmwire to play additional games using a USB stick. I will possible buy one in the future. I am also thinking about a Neogeo wireless machine to realy create my own retro games museum but its also in the future plans. I will not buy any more machines than those listed here in this paragraf but apart from for example "Mini Super Nintendo" I have also seen several special "Gameboy" like machines like "Retroboy" with build in Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Master System, Sega Megadrive and lots of other consoles games in same portable device.