Støre was a chess columnist for "Dagbladet" for many years. He was fired from Dagbladet in 1986 following a controversy over a column he'd written commemorating the 1936 unofficial Chess Olympiad in Munich. In the 1930s norwegian sports was still divided between the labour movement's organizations and the politically neutral (conservative) ones. The Workers Federation of Sports boycotted the whole Olympics, including the unofficial Chess Olympiad, whereas the Confederation of Sports athletes and chess players took part. 50 years later, in his Dagbladet chess column, Støre commented: "There is no essential difference between conservatives and nazis, it's just a matter of degrees."