Hi everybody and welcome to In Good Company.

Today we are incredibly honored to have a guest who needs very little introduction,

Magnus Carlson, the highest rated chess player in history.

And today we're going to talk about business,

or actually we're going to talk a bit about what we as investors can learn from chess

and from you, Magnus.

Very welcome.

Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

Now, during the Second World War in Britain,

pretty much every chess expert were recruited to the Ultra Project, which was basically

cracking codes used by the Nazis. And so there's been this assumption that brilliant chess minds

are brilliant at everything. And I was just wondering, what do you think we in business can learn from chess?

It's funny you should mention that because my father's parents, they were born before the war.

They were very much into everything that's American and English, because

those were sort of what they saw as the victors of the war.

But one of the books they had at home, which they recommended to me at an early age, I think

I was about 10 or 11.

It was a small book, but it was called Kode Ultra, I think, a translation to Norwegian,

about how they cracked the Enigma Code. But I didn't know until the time of the

imitation game movie that actually chess players were involved in that. So that angle I didn't really know.

I also know that at some point, I don't know exactly which, but there was at least one

hedge fund on Wall Street that was actively recruiting chess players.

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