GRAND CHESS. Hamburg, Germany. GRAND CHESS is a word play on the names of the two company founders, Guido Randzio and Carsten Hess. Friends, businessmen and fellow connoisseurs of art and music for many decades, we have created a music company that offers services and products we would actually buy ourselves. We gladly leave chasing after short-lived trends and appealing to the uncritical masses to others.