I Survived Sweden's Most Isolated City... By Playing Chess. 

The question is will he remember the laughs and ice cream, or will be forever haunted by the blunders? :P

He was on his way back to Oulu.

@@DFGdanger He will forever remember the beautiful, laughing girl he played chess with, which will make him recall the taste of that particular banana ice cream.

@@bacca71 cringe

@@bacca71 O^o ...... "what a very suspicious remark to make....."

he is not very friendly to fishes.

I’m from Italy and I can speak Italian, English, Albanian and I study French at school

@@Leonardo_Doratelli wow

I speak American English, and Redneck English, with a smattering of Southern Hillbilly English. Oh and a few words and phrases of Mexican Spanglish.

Another funny thing is. She might have been able to speak Swedish with him as well. Since about 300000 (about 5% of the population) Finnish people speak Swedish as a main language. And the rest who are Finnish speakers. Have mandatory Swedish classes at school.

Yes, I noticed that too about how they spoke English so fluently. However, what Americans don’t realize is that in speaking English you’re already automatically speaking three languages fluently. Because England was twice brutally overrun and colonized - by the Romans in the time of Hadrian and Normans (French) in 1066 - there are three languages that make up English - Saxon, Latin, and French. English often has three words for the same thing we’re all completely fluent with - time, era, epoch for example - where other European languages have only one. The English vocabulary is vastly larger than its European counterparts. The reason English is the “world’s language” so to speak - why a Spanish born girl meeting a Finn in a far northern Swedish town speak English to each other - is not because English power and hegemony and “colonization” (indeed, as I’ve said, if you want to talk about colonization think of the English!) - but, basically, because it’s the best choice to serve as the “world’s language”. Artificial efforts that it be something else for vaguely or overtly political reasons - like Esperanto - are inadequate creaking failures, unpleasant to even try to learn. By committee is just not how language is made! Language is an organic living thing. Wonderful that these two people here have English at hand to speak with each other. The point is communication, nothing else.

oh shut up lol

@@JonasCraftUltimate Unappreciative of the arts?

bros lying

As an American of Swedish decent I love this video. Great landscapes, random friendly people and chess, nice.

This was just a good vlog essay type video and you're just horny as hell

She kind of did play the cow against a sheep. 😁😁

Lol.

Yes, I lol-ed for realsies!

Mr cow

I see what you did there!

how old are you then?

I met Anna Crambling in Malmö and I lost hard.

Its not even about not being outgoing to strangers. They more like to leave people minding their own business

From my experience as a Swede, Swedes being like you describe is true compared to the US, but it’s not like we are shy to strangers. Of course some are, but many people are very friendly and outgoing too. Also, since so many people from other countries come to Sweden from countries that are poor or at war, many other cultures that are more social mix in Sweden which has made most Swedes more outgoing as a result of that

haha 😁

Maybe I'm wrong but my thought was that you wouldn't live there if you wanted attention brought on yourself. So people are probably discreet by nature (or at least toward strangers, which they must not see that often). With Anna, a beautiful flashy stranger, installed right there with her filming gear, they were probably intimidated or taken aback in some way. Again, just a thought.. I may be wrong.

Kiruna is a small town where veryone know eachother. The iron mine up there is like where everyone who lives there work. So it's like you said that not many outsiders get there. And it looked like she was there durin daytime, which may be the reason everyone was at work as well. But even if it was weekend, it's most likely ppl wont come up since it's a camera up and they dont want to bother. If it was closer towards the evening, and weekend, I bet some ppl would come out after they start drinking xD@@blizzard2099

She has such an amazing personality, so, even if she weren't shooting chess videos, a lot of people would still gravitate toward her.

Uhhh... it's probably because she didn't film herself frowning, lol.

@@blizzard2099 When someone is frowning soon or later it's gonna be show, look hikaru lol

Well it's Sweden, they really don't like to engage with strangers. Probably even more so in such a remote town.

Or she just doesn’t film them.

Like a female beavis and butthead.

Nah its fake

@@Composer_ bruh

no one is that happy, its obv for the camera, when's the last time u seen her sad on camera?@@susanhanji1189

Laugh is an ice-breaker. It's also way to escaoe socially akward or uncomfy situations.

You really consider yourselves antisocial people? I'm from Spain, maybe I wouldn't consider Italians quite as outgoing as us, but I would say in general they are quite social, in my experience at least

​@@MI-cq7fc We are social when given the opportunity, but at the same time, we really enjoy our peace and quite.

@@mmazz414 I think this is everyone though, at least to a certain level! I myself need my peace and quiet as well, but love being outgoing in many situations. I think Italy has amazing and extremely friendly people

Totally agree.@@MI-cq7fc

well Kiruna is not that small. its a town and since nothing big around, must feel like a center of the whole region

There is a population of Swedes in Finland so she might technically have a Swedish ancestor from Finland.

As soon as I noticed it was the cow I had to laugh too!

Risto

@@erik.... Thanks! Edited

I'm not very good at chess but, like you, I'd be tempted to try doing something like this just to meet people in a fun way. It'd be weird though to lose to every random stranger while I'd be the one challenging them....

@@blizzard2099 right 😅, i think theres lots of beginners like us though since so many people have started playing in last three years or so. One of my favorite aspects of chess is the wide range of people who play.

(I've only been to norwey once and they all know each other lol, so this is a joke)

What about John Arne Riise?

@@Primitive_Code He comes to the neighbourhood on wednesdays

Exactly I’m so glad things worked out for her. Always in my thought and prayers ❤️

My strategy I would play f5 first move and set up for getting immediate scholar mate. Because I am ice cream scholar

That's why your mother looks like Lizzo

You spelled Morro Bay wrong twice

@@imadeanaccountjusttodothis7785 Noticed that after I sent it! 😄

Hi, I was looking for a comment about Pia, and finally! I am sure not many here knows about her mother as a world class chess player. Ckeers!

I see you're new to chess.Any idea how long that would take?

@@visionbishop9517 She has basically done that already. If I remember correctly it took 14-15 hours.) 0 to 2000 rating. It's in her library of videos.

Did you meet the Sámi people? I really would like to meet them and learn about them.

@@Primitive_Code Sad to say we mostly just passed through. I'm not sure if you'd recognize a saamelainen without asking anyways?

Ja bitte, dann habe ich alles gesehen

@@sitbone3 to bang your mom in years. I put a bag on her head.

I remember the mosquitos the most from my brief visit there! We made the mistake of leaving the bedroom window open in the middle of summer. We didn't make that mistake again!