Rudolf Teschner

Rudolf Teschner, 1960
Association	Germany
Born	February 16, 1922 Potsdam
Died	July 23, 2006 Berlin
title	International Master (1957) Honorary Grand Master (1992)
Best Elo rating	2450 (July 1971)

Rudolf Teschner (born February 16, 1922 in Potsdam , † July 23, 2006 in Berlin-Steglitz ) was a German chess player and journalist.

Life

Teschner, a professional technical employee, learned to play chess at the age of eleven with his older brother Hermann and made rapid progress. He was champion of Berlin seven times . In 1942 he won a competition against Friedrich Sämisch 5: 3. In 1946 he took fourth place in Leipzig at the 1st championship of the Soviet occupation zone , which Berthold Koch won. In 1948 he won the Eastern Zone Championship in Bad Doberan . In 1951 in Düsseldorf he was first ahead of Gerhard Pfeiffer in the all-German championship .

The FIDE awarded him in 1957 the title of International Master . At the zone tournament of Berg en Dal 1960 he shared 2nd and 3rd place and thus qualified for the 1962 interzonal tournament in Stockholm , where he managed a draw against Bobby Fischer . He won the Reggio nell'Emilia Christmas tournament in 1963/1964 and 1964/1965 (each divided 1st – 4th). In 1967 he won the B tournament in Monaco and in 1968 he finished fourth in the Bamberg anniversary tournament together with Wolfgang Unzicker and received the prize for the most beautiful game.

In 1992, FIDE awarded him the title of Grand Master Honorary (HGM = Honorary Grand Master). Teschner's last Elo rating was 2295, but he didn't play an Elo-rated game after 1994. It had its highest Elo rating of 2450 in July 1971. Before the Elo rating was introduced, its best historical rating was 2633, which it reached in May 1968.

Teschner's special achievement lay in addition to the tournament game in his publication work. After the end of the Second World War he was the editor of the monthly German chess newspaper . It appeared under his direction from 1950 to 1988, with Kurt Richter supporting him until his death in 1969. As (then the only) editor , Teschner corresponded with a large number of well-known freelancers from all over the world, mostly in their native language. He also looked after the chess columns of the Berliner Tagesspiegel and the Berliner Morgenpost and held numerous adult education courses. A heart attack as a result of the completely surprising suspension of the “Schachzeitung” by the de Gruyter publishing house in 1988 forced him to take a break of several months. He made the decision to rearrange his life all the more happy when he had four grandchildren between 1988 and 1992. Teschner did not participate in major tournaments again, but he did participate in numerous small ones, mainly in his hometown Berlin. He had another negative experience in 2001, when his more than 50 years collaboration with Tagesspiegel was terminated informally and overnight because of the abandonment of the chess section. The “cold” decisions of the two publishers made him primarily through the form; Teschner quickly seized the opportunity, however, to devote himself to the new book projects brought to him, where he particularly enjoyed working on the new editions of some of his older books by various publishers.

In addition to his tournament presence and work for the newspapers, Teschner has published a large number of chess books over the past 50 years . In addition to writing his own works, he revised or translated chess books by well-known authors, mostly world-class players. For this he started using PCs in 1988. At the age of 84, Teschner was still editing chess books for Olms-Verlag. After a stroke in March 2006, however, he had to retire from all activities in May. Rudolf Teschner died on July 23 of the same year.

Teschner was married and had three children. His wife Elisabeth was once Berlin champion and vice-champion several times in the 1960s.

National team

With the German national team, Teschner took part in the chess Olympiads in 1952 and 1956 as well as the European team championships in 1957, 1961 and 1965 and won the Mitropacup in 1976.

societies

Teschner was a founding member of SK Lasker in 1947 and later a member of SV Wilmersdorf , with whom he played in the four-track Bundesliga from 1975 to 1977 and in the 1979/80 season , in the single-track Bundesliga in the 1980/81 season.

Chess composition

Teschner only composed chess problems sporadically. He also knows a study-like pawn ending . His work as editor and author has probably also inspired him to make some contributions in this area.

Rudolf Teschner
Der Tagesspiegel, December 27, 1992

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

Checkmate in three moves

Solution:

1. Bb2 – a1! e4 – e3 This pawn is directed to the remote block .
2. Kc 2-b2 Kc4-d4
3. Kb2-b3 Matt
An adjustment raises the threat of stalemate , and by means of a tight spot , the king is in the field drawn on which he a discovered check succumbs.

Works (selection)

• Little Bilguer, Berlin 1953 (together with Kurt Richter).
• Chess master games 1960–1965, Reclam, Stuttgart 1966.
• Chess master games 1966–1970, Reclam, Stuttgart 1971.
• Meisterspiele - Unforgettable chess games, Goldmann, Munich 1972.
• Chess Master Games 1971–1975, Reclam, Stuttgart 1977.
• Tournament games of the present, Franckh, Stuttgart, 1978.
• It's your turn - 300 chess combinations, Goldmann, Munich 1979 (4th ed.).
• The modern chess textbook, Goldmann, Munich 1980.
• Chess master games 1976–1980, Reclam, Stuttgart 1983.
• Chess for advanced players, falcons, Niedernhausen / Ts. 1986 (3rd edition).
• Chess master games 1981–1985, Reclam, Stuttgart 1986.
• Chess master games 1986–1990, Reclam, Stuttgart 1991.
• Fischer versus Spasski 1972 and 1992, Olms, Zurich 1993.
• A school of chess in 40 hours, Olms, Zurich 1993 (a classic also published in English and Spanish; total circulation by various publishers 150,000 copies).
• Checkmate (together with Kurt Richter ), Joachim Beyer Verlag , Eltmann 2014, ISBN 978-3-940417-58-9 .

literature

• Alfred Diel : chess master and publicist. In: Kaissiber 26, 2007, pp. 56–57.
• Arno Nickel: A German Chess Life. Rudolf Teschner on the eightieth In: Schach-Kalender 2002, pp. 28–45.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Teschner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Replayable chess games by Rudolf Teschner on 365Chess.com (English)
• Literature by and about Rudolf Teschner in the catalog of the German National Library
• For my 80th birthday
• Meeting with the Emanuel Lasker Society
• Compositions by Rudolf Teschner on the PDB server

proof

1. ↑ 1st championship of the Soviet zone of occupation 1946 in Leipzig on TeleSchess (cross table)
2. ^ German individual chess championship 1951 in Düsseldorf on TeleSchach (cross table)
3. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 89.
4. ↑ Berg en Dal, torneo zonale A 1960 ( Memento of March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Elo history at olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Rudolf Teschner's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Rudolf Teschner's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Rudolf Teschner's results at Mitropacups on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ^ Johannes Eising , Karl-Heinz Podzielny , Gerd Treppner: Schach-Bundesliga 1974-80 , Bamberger Schachverlag, Bamberg 1981, ISBN 3-923113-00-5 , p. 106.