MSO Chief Arbiter, writer and games inventor

Dan Glimne lives in Sweden. After studies at the Polytechnic University in Lund, where he also taught for a few years at the Department of Machine Engineering, he in 1980 got the job as product development manager at AB Alga, Sweden's leading games company. He stayed there until 1989, when he decided to become a freelancer. He is the author of 15 books, most of them about games but also including the novel "Beast of Burden", has invented over 50 published games which have sold in twenty countries, writes about games for newspapers, magazines and the Internet version of Encyclopaedia Britannica, and also works for several television shows. He became involved with the MSO from its start in 1997, and was made Chief Arbiter in 1999.

Dan's long list of successes includes the following books:

• Beast of Burden (thriller novel)
• Pokerhandboken
• Spel! Spel! Spel!
• 100 Kortspel och tricks
• Pirayaklubbens Handbok
• Kortspelshandboken
• Nya Spel

These are some of the most famous of Dan's dozens of games:

• Svea Rike
• Binary Dice (a novel form of number generator)
• Sky Runner
• Ostindiska Kompaniet
• DungeonQuest
• One-Dimensional Chess
• Beer Square
• Polar Dare
• Stadens Nyckel
• Andy Capp / Willi Wacker

Dan will be chatting live at http://www.msoworld.com/chat.html on Sunday 18th June between 9pm and 11pm BST (US times: 1pm - 3pm Pacific Daylight Time, 4pm - 6pm Eastern Daylight Time). If you can't attend, we invite you to send your questions to us at chat@msoworld.com and look here after the event for a full log of the chat session.