Edwin Bhend

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Bhend, Edwin 2012-03-10.JPG
Edwin Bhend 2012 in Bad Wörishofen
Association SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Born September 9, 1931
Zurich
title International champion (1960)
Current  Elo rating 2104 (March 2020)
Best Elo rating 2380 (July 1982, July 1986, January 1987)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Edwin Bhend (born September 9, 1931 in Zurich ) is a Swiss chess player .

Life

Edwin Bhend shared first place with Bent Larsen in the 1953 Young Masters tournament in Zagreb and twice won the Swiss individual cup, the Coupe Suisse . His win against Michail Tal with the black stones in 1959 in Zurich was remarkable .

Edwin Bhend was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE in 1960 . In 1966 he won the Swiss individual championship in Lugano .

In 1968 he won the first staging of the International Open of the Biel Chess Society (today Biel International Chess Festival) and relegated Jan Timman, then 16, to second place.

Team tournaments

With the Swiss national team, he took part in ten Chess Olympiads from 1952 in Helsinki to the 1982 Chess Olympiad in Lucerne (in 1982 he played in the second team). In 1954 he won silver on board 4. In total, he got 59 points from 112 games.

In 1973 he qualified with the Swiss national team for the final of the European Team Championship in Bath . He also played several times in opening groups for the European Team Championship, such as in Moscow in 1977 and in Skara in 1980 .

He lives in Basel and is a member of the chess clubs Basel Trümmerfeld, Basel Sportclub Novartis section chess and Riehen chess society. At SG Riehen , he is registered in the first team in the National League A. He was last used in the National League A in the 2008 season . He used to play for Allschwil SG , with which he took part twice in the European Club Cup . Before the introduction of Elo ratings, Bhend had its highest historical rating of 2542 in February 1960 .

Senior chess

At the 1994 Seniors World Chess Championship in Biel , which Mark Taimanow won, he and Buchuti Gurgenidse took 5th to 8th place. In the senior tournament in 2011 in Bad Wörishofen , he finished fourth. In 2012 he took second place in the senior tournament of the 28th ChessOrg chess festival in Bad Wörishofen.

Works

  • Edwin Bhend: Petrosjan - Spassky 69. Kräuchi, Basel 1969
  • Edwin Bhend: King's Gambit / Vol. 1, The King Jumper Gambit. Kräuchi, Basel 1971

Web links

Commons : Edwin Bhend  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Lindörfer: Large chess dictionary . Bertelsmann Publishing Group / Mosaik Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 84-499-8080-1 .
  2. ↑ Mikhail Tal vs Edwin Bhend, Zurich 1959 · 0-1 replayable game on chessgames.com
  3. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 89
  4. ↑ Breisacher, Olivier; Bertola, Georges. The years 1968-1976. International Chess Festival Biel. 2017-07-11. URL: http://beta.bielchessfestival.ch/dam/jcr:6649e692-65f1-4d65-b4b2-46b9d95eee80/1968-1976_history_de.pdf . Accessed: 2017-07-11. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6rt9jOdGa )
  5. ↑ MEN'S CHESS OLYMPIADS - Bhend, Edwin (Switzerland) on Olimpbase (English)
  6. ↑ EUROPEAN MEN'S TEAM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP - Bhend, Edwin (Switzerland) on Olimpbase (English)
  7. ^ Members of the Swiss Chess Federation
  8. ↑ Edwin Bhends results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ 27th ChessOrg Chess Festival 2011 in Bad Wörishofen on TeleSchach
  10. ↑ 28th ChessOrg Chess Festival 2012 in Bad Wörishofen on TeleSchach
personal data
SURNAME Bhend, Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chess player
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich