From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, Lars-Åke Schneider belonged among the top Swedish chess players.
He four times won
Swedish Chess Championship: 1979, 1982, 1983 and 1986. Also Lars-Åke Schneider twice won silver medals in the national championship (1990, 1991) and bronze medals once (1989).
Lars-Åke Schneider successes on the International Chess tournaments include, among others:
1st place (1982) and four times shared 1st place (1978, 1981, 1985, 1987) in Rilton Cup tournament in Stockholm,
1st place (1980) and twice shared 1st place (1979, together with
Axel Ornstein and 1982, together with
Lars Karlsson) in
Eksjö,