I'm 52 years old and live in Glostrup - 12 kilometers to the west of the Danish capital Copenhagen. I'm married to Linda - and all our 3 children have left our house in the last 2 years. Now we just enjoy the peace together Oh - and surprise: We also enjoy suddenly having a lot more money to spend every month!! I work in a big hospital in the computer department. I'm not a programmer and not a technician either! Give me a screwdriver, and I can ruin almost anything! My responsibilities are handling of incidents and service request in the IT-environment - and to act as project manager in all possible kind of projects - small and big.

Søren at Wembley Click here for larger photo

In my spare time I like to play badminton, OTB-chess (FIDE 2167) and I also read a lot (mostly detective novels and about history). Am also very interested in all kind of sports - I attend all home games of my favourite soccer club FC Copenhagen.

How did I get into the NFL? Well ICCF is to blame for that! In my first correspondence chess tournament WT/III/132 - all the way back in 1974-76 - I was lucky to meet an opponent from the US Eugene Robbins, Euclid Ave in Dravosburg (suburb to Pittsburgh). Very quickly we switched from postcards to loooong letters - and in 1998 he invited me to visit him in his mobile home! And, here it comes: On my 22nd birthday (August 5th 1978) he took me to Three Rivers Stadium for a NFL preseason game Falcons@Steelers. The action on the field got me immediately - hey I did not even know the sport existed…..

Back home in DEN I missed the NFL a lot! Nothing in the newspapers (not even results) and nothing on TV! Luckily about a decade later somebody invented the Internet - and then I started to learn and read everything about the Steelers. And to my big surprise (and joy) I realized, that I had actually seen the winners of SuperBowl XIII.

10 years ago Danish TV suddenly started to show NFL-games. The first couple of years only the SuperBowl - but the last 5 years I have been able to watch NFL every Sunday!

I have been so lucky to attend 2 more live games: In 2000 after the ICCF Congress in Daytona Beach George Packers (Sorry: Pyrich) and I drove to Tampa to see the Jets@Buccanners - and last year Andy was so kind to invite me to London for the Dolphins@Giants game at Wembley! And we are going again this year!!

Go Søren!!

I have stayed in the ICCF family without any breaks since 1974 - and I got the IM-title in 2004 and the SIM-title in 2006. Next year I will most likely get my last title: IA. I have had several different ICCF positions - webmaster, title tournaments commissioner and lately FD-assistant and organizer of the Money Prize Tournaments. I became the delegate from Denmark in 1997 and have attended every Congress since. A little curiosity: In the first draft of this profile Franklin gave me the title of Grandmaster SIM - and everybody was yelling at him for that! But the "title" is really not completely wrong!! In ICCF I'm only a SIM - but in the TV gameshow Jeopardy I am a Grandmaster!! I have the show on a disc - so if anyone can teach me how to create an Internet compatible video from a disk - you will be able to watch it here! It is not a threat - it is a promise :

• Favourite team: Pittsburgh Steelers - only dissapointment: They have NO Cheerleaders!!
• Favourite player (past): Jack Lambert
• Favourite player (present): Ben Roethlisberger - see below
• Favourite player (non-US): Morten Andersen - recold holder in the NFL - most scored points in history!!
• Favourite position: Nose tackle - but I have actually never held a football in my hands!!
• Wish for Christmas: That NFL will relocate the Baltimore Ravens back to Cleveland - so we can beat the Browns 4 times a year!!

Ben - the big no 7: 1st round draft choise in 2004 and plays QB as I play chess! Excellent athlete, strong arm, great escaping trouble by running away - and has a burger named after him!! Make this on any given Sunday: http://www.recipezaar.com/138858. The original burger can be eaten at Peppi's, 927 Western Ave, Pittsburgh - of course the prize is 7 USD!!

George Pyrich and me at a rainy Raymond James Stadium, Tampa 2000

My Steeler Buddy Gene and me at Niagara Falls, 1978. Some years after my visit in "the Burgh" we lost contact - but 10 years ago, I tracked him down at the Internet! Since that day we have played friendly games at goldtoken.com. This is what ICCF really can give us - if we grab the chance - lifetime friendships!

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Team Stadium - Heinz Field

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