Héðinn Steingrímsson (born 11 January 1975) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster.

Ceaușescu was the still in power at the time and there was not enough food for the competitors; Héðinn suffered from malnutrition during the event and fell ill.[2] In 1990, he won the Icelandic Chess Championship, aged 15.

The same year, he competed at the 29th Chess Olympiad, scoring 1½/3 as Iceland finished eighth out of 108 teams.

[4] In 2009, he won the Reykjavik Open on tie-break over Yuriy Kryvoruchko and Hannes Stefánsson.

In December 2019, Steingrimsson tied for second place with IM (now GM) Brandon Jacobson in the Charlotte Chess Center's Holiday GM Norm Invitational held in Charlotte, North Carolina with an undefeated score of 5.5/9.