Jan Henric Buettner

And I lived in California for 15 years.

And

Then I went back to Germany and restored a complete rotten village to a beautiful private nature luxury resort over 20 years, the last 20 years.

And also I built a beautiful music studio, a production studio, like really, really high end for music production.

And I talked to some grandmasters that I was actually learning some of my chess and I invited them to the studio party and so on.

And they said, well, great, why don't we do a chess tournament here?

I'm like, okay, I have no idea what a chess tournament is.

Explain it to me.

And they said, yeah, you can follow us online.

It's like we play here, there, everywhere.

So I looked it up and I found a perfect sleeping pill, as I always say.

It's so boring watching two people play chess.

And at the same time, Holly, my wife, and I, we were following Formula 1.

Circus like on the paddock clubs and I thought the distinction was so big between the chess players and the Formula One drivers the way they are treated and the way it's all be seen and I thought like okay, maybe we can do a better chess tournament like that and so I connected with Magnus because obviously for the greatest chess tournament that you can do you need the greatest chess player of all time and then I met with him in Qatar and in October 23 and

And he then said, okay, after we got to know each other, we spent quite a time with his family, my wife and family a little bit together.

And then he understood that he could basically select his own tournament.

And he said, if I can select a tournament, I want to play Fischer Random 960 on the highest level with normal thinking time against the best players of the world.

and I looked at him and I had no idea what he was talking about, Fisher Random 960.

I always said as a joke, it's like something, is that Fisher Random for my pharmacy?

Against my cold, something like that.