Short facs

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.

My collection

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.

Fiction

• "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas.
• "The D'Artagnan Romances" (The three musketeers, 20 year after, Vicomte de Bragelonne) by Alexandre Dumas.
• "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown.
• "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C Clarke.
• "Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann" by Jonas Jonasson.
• "Hundraettåringen som tänkte att han tänkte för mycket" by Jonas Jonasson.

History

• "När Finland var Sverige" by Herman Lindqvist.
• "Jean Bernadotte : mannen vi valde" by Herman Lindqvist.
• "De vilda Vasarna - en våldsam historia" by Herman Lindqvist.
• "Bernadotte : för Sverige hela tiden" by Herman Lindqvist.
• "Kungligt och mänskligt : 200 år med ätten Bernadotte i Sverige" by Herman Lindqvist.
• "Familjen Bernadotte : makten, myterna, människorna" by Arne Norlin.
• "The art of War of Bernadotte" by Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte.
• "Mysteriet Karl XII:s död" by Rolf Uppström
• "Den okända kulan : Karl XII:s död 1718 och människorna omkring honom" by Rolf Uppström
• "Upprättelsen, Olof Dagström och Motivet bakom mordet på Karl XII" by Bob G. Lind.
• "Oscar II : den konungsligaste av alla kungar" by Herman Lindqvist.

Heraldry

• "Riddarhusets vapensköldar" by Magnus Bäckmark.
• "Finlands ridderskaps och adels vapenbok" by G. J. Granfelt.
• "Svenskt Vapenregister"

Chess

• "Starting Out: 1 e4: A reliable repertoire for the improving player" by Neil McDonald.
• "Beating Unusual Chess Defences: 1 e4: Dealing With The Scandinavian, Pirc, Modern, Alekhine And Other Tricky Lines" by Andrew Greet.
• "Openings for Amateurs" by Pete Tamburro.
• "Opening Repertoire: Nimzo and Bogo Indian" by Christof Sielecki.
• "Keep It Simple 1. e4" by Christof Sielecki.
• "Mastering the Nimzo Indian" by Tony Kosten.
• "Winning Chess Middlegames" by Ivan Sokolov.
• "Khalifman: Life and Games" by Gennady Nesis.
• "No regrets" by Yasser Seirawan.
• "Everymans Chess Move by Move series about individual players" by varios authors.
• "Zurich 1953 tournament books" (I own Bronsteins book in 3 different editions, Najdorfs book, Euwes book, Ståhlberg book and Woods book).
• "Schackets Mästare: I huvudet på Ulf Andersson" by Robert Okpu and Thomas Engqvist (I personally got Ulf Anderssons autograf in the book).
• "Tusen och en Schack" by Jonny Hector.
• "Coffeehouse Repertoire 1.e4" by Gawain Jones.
• "Kings Kalashnikov Sicilian" by Daniel King.
• "Caruanas Ruy Lopez : A White Repertoire for Club Players" by Fabiano Caruana.
• "The Dragon Sicilian" by Anish Giri.
• "The Open Sicilian : An Ambitious White Repertoire for Club Players" by Ivan Saric.

In newspapers

When I became 30 years old I got interviewed in both local newspappers.

I have also been mention in Swedish Chess Federation magazine TFS.

Chess

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.

GUIF

I played in handball with GUIF as junior and got 3rd place in Swedish Junior handball championship in 1999 and won Järnvägen Cup 1999.

My retro videogames museum

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" portable console, a "4K HD NES Mini 8-bitars Retro" 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 cartridges at a secondhand store to try out the machines limits and they work. I also own a old" Sega MegeDrive Turbo" joystick at attice storage, not shure it also works with new machine.

Commodore 64

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, I belive its 64 internal classical games in the consol. 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 converted files on a USB memory. I have even seen commerical sold "Commodore 64" USB memorys sticks with tons game files. 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.

Amiga 500

I never owned a "Amiga 500" but I bought a "Amiga 500 mini" since the games "Battle Chess" and "Speedball 2" was included in build in classical games list, I played both a lot on other consoles the past. The machines comes with 25 build in classical games, a joypad and a classical replice mouse. The model does only have a decorated keyboard like "Mini Commodore 64" so USB hubs are needed if attaching more then 3 USB devices like mouse, keyboard, joypad and extra USB game stick. Like the both the "retro Commodore 64" models its possible to upgrade firmwire to play additional games using a USB stick with converted games files. I have even seen commercial sold "Amiga 500" USB memory sticks with tons of game files. I also noticed that "Monkey Island" games also exist for Amiga thus possible to download and play. I own them on PC but antivirus claims the original anniversary CD version of the games is a virus. Even one of my favorite games "Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis" exist on Amiga, I own the version with sounds on PC.

Other machines

I will not buy any more machines. I have seen several other official consoles like "Mini Super Nintendo" but I prefere HDMI connected devices after that I failed to get a "NES TV Retro Game" work on my TV. I have seen a "Neogeo" wireless machine with HDMI port but I know next to nothing about that consoles games so I will not buy it.

I have also seen several unofficial special "Gameboy" look alike machines like "Retroboy" with tons of build in "Nintendo", "Super Nintendo", "Sega Master System", "Sega Megadrive" and lots of other consoles games in same portable device and other "Gameboy" look a like portable consoles that appers to only have "Nintendo" games. I can add that as I remember the orignal "Gameboy" games was only black and white and these new look alikes appears to have colors.

Nostalgica

The original "Commodore 64" could use both cassette tapes, floppy disks and cartridges. Floppy diskdrives was not standard, it was sold separate. I owned a lightpistol called "Magnum" besides joysticks. The cassette players needed calibratation after a while and some cassette players had build in calibration tools. Games could otherwise get "Load errors". Cassette tapes games could take 1 hour to load and new levels needed futher loading time. This was becouse of copy protection reasons since normal cassette players could easy copy a game. Some games even required loading codes from the manual within the game. Many hackers cracked the tapegames and "zipped" the game to remove unnessary garbage reducing loading time into seconds instead of 1 hour. This was called "Turbo". "Turbo 250 by Mr Z" was the most known "turboprogram". Commodore later released "Commodore 128" basically a "Commodore 64" but twice as much RAM. It could also play old "Commodore 64" games but the machine was no a success. "Commodore 64" has 64 KB RAM + 20 KB ROM memory and "Commodore 128" 128 KB RAM. It might not sound much today for either machine but it was lots of RAM in when the original machines was new, 64 KB RAM was actually a argument to buy it since competions machines had much less RAM! RAM was much more expensive in the old days. Even later in 1995 is costed at least 2000 SEK to get 4 MB RAM on a PC with 486 proccessor and today you get 4 GB RAM for less. "Commodore 64" had also a very good sound chip "SID" that was used highest level even in the 2020:s.

My favorite Commodore 64 games

Some of the best "Commodore 64" games that I remember best was "Summer games", "Winter games", "Boulder Dash" games, "Wonderboy", "Super Wonderboy", "Commando", "Operation Wolf", "Mission Impossible" games, "TMHT" games, "BC:s quest for tires", "Grobs Revenge","Hunchback" games, "Bubble Bobble" and "Giana Sisters". "Giana Sisters" is the world most pirate copyed game since it was a sort of a clone of Nintendo game "Super Mario Bros" but much better in all ways and was forced to be withdrawed from marked after a law suit of being too identical so I belive that almost 100% of those that played that game used "Turbo" pirate copys. There even was a sequal planned with lots of lots of more differences called "Giana 2 – Arthur And Martha In Future World" that after legal issues ended up in the game "Hard N Heavy". I have heard of several clones of "Giana Sisters" with different homemade levels and even some sort of real "Giana Sister 2" sequal with more functions like swimming and other improvments over orignal game but the original makers but I dont know if it reached public. One original "Giane Sisters" clone used "Super Mario Bros" inspired sprites replacments, like "Super Mario". I have also heared rumors that some amateur guy managed port the entire Nintendo game "Super Mario Bros" into "Commodore 64" format. "Bubble Bobble" has a secret mode called "Super Bubble Bobble". In Commodore 64 press the following keys when the title screen appears: [S] [U] [P] [O] [R] [commodore key].If the side of the screen turns red for a short period of time, start the game. This mode exists in many other console versions of "Bubble Bobble" but different key combinations are needed in different consoles.

My favorite Sega Megadrive games

Some of my old "Sega Megadrive" favorite games was "Sonic" series, "Quackshot", "Wonderboy" series, "Mega-Lo-Mania", "Castle of Illusion", "Speedball 2", "Road Rash" games, "Desert Strike" series and "Robocop vs Terminator". I also played lots of EA:s Hockey games. I even managed to get a copy of first EA made NHL game already back in the old days by accident, it called simply "NHL Hockey". It also exist a simular game "EA Hockey" but other teams that are national teams. On my original "MagaDrive" consolse the cartride "NHL Hockey" still worked despite being USA region but "EA Hockey" had worked better and had higher speed while "NHL Hockey" was a bit slow. In my new retro machine both have the same speed, it has maybee something to do with PAL/NTSC differences translations in old devices. Later EA made official NHL licensed games with real players and viewable stats starting with "NHLPA Hockey 93" and followed by "NHL 94" etc. I also own the Swedish translated versions with real Swedish teams and real players called "Elitserien 95" and "Elitserien 96". "Elitserien 95" is "NHL 94" with Swedish teams and "Elitserien 96" is "NHL 95" with Swedish teams. I also own "Mortal Combat", a for rental only game that I bought when a video rental store closed down.

The "Megadrive" games listed here are not only the games I own or games I owned. Some of the games listed here was games I borrowed from friends or played at friends only and some games was games I briefly owned or traded at "TV Spelsbörsen". "TV Spelsbörsen" was a store back in the days where every game had a catalog value and one could buy both new and used games and could trade in used games to get discount. The stored had lots of different consoles games like all Nintendo and Sega consoles as well as PC games. It existed in several citys before the entire chain closed down.

While I usually dont play much Pinball, of the cartridges I own its still a high degree of Pinball games. I own "Sonic Spinball" since the old days where I played it alot and recently bought "Dragons Revenge". The problem with buying used games at online shops these days are that there are often only cartridge and no box or manual. Becouse of this I will not buy that many extra games and will mostly play the build in games instead as well as my old cartridges.

Sports games

While I never played real icehockey myself I own 4 of "EA Sports" "Sega Megadrive Hockey" games in form of "NHL Hockey", "EA Hockey", "Elitserien 95" and "Elitserien 96". On PC I owned all of "EAs NHL" games from 1999 and forward untill EA stoppad to make PC versions of their NHL games, last game was from 2009. I look at my attic storage and I was surprised that I owned two more sport cartridges on "Sega Megadrive" in form of the futuristic handball/american football mix "Speedball 2" and the special basketball like game "Arch Rivals".

Import taxes

Sometimes when buying stuff online extra costed are added. I bought a couple of "Sega MegaDrive" cartidges at "CDON.com", a large Swedish trading market plattform. And one of the times I had to pay expensive import taxes. When I bought other "Sega Megadrive" cartrides at other Swedish online shops there are no such thing yet. One other time I also had to pay import taxes was when I bought a "Commodore 64 maxi model" at an other trading market place called "Fruugo". I has never had to pay import taxes on "Amazon" bought items yet.

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