Alexander Margrave
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| Alexander Markgraf, Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf 2008 |
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 Germany
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| Born | August 7, 1981 Göttingen , Federal Republic of Germany |
| title | International champion (2011) |
| Current Elo rating | 2482 (August 2020) |
| Best Elo rating | 2523 (May to November 2016) |
| Tab at the FIDE (English) | |
Rolf-Alexander Markgraf (born August 7, 1981 in Göttingen ) is a German chess player and trainer.
Life
Alexander Margrave learned to play chess from his father at the age of six. His role model is Viswanathan Anand . His brother Stefan and his sister Claudia are also chess players. Alexander Markgraf is A trainer. As a trainer, he is active in the Lower Saxony Chess Youth. He is a research assistant in the law department at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .
successes
At the German U13 individual championship in 1994 in Osnabrück , he was third behind Stefan Bromberger and Martin Zumsande . He won the Lower Saxony individual championship in blitz chess in 2003, the individual championship of the Lower Saxony Chess Association in 2005 in Bad Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains and in 2007 and 2008 in Verden (Aller) . At the German Rapid Chess Championship in Kiel in 2009 , he was third behind Karl-Heinz Podzielny and David Baramidze .
He took part in team championships since the 1993/94 season with the Harz club SV Osterode (from 1996 after merging with SK Südharz as SV Osterode-Südharz ). In the German Federal Chess League he played in the 1999/2000 and 2000/01 seasons for USC Magdeburg . From the 2002/03 season to the 2012/13 season, Alexander Markgraf played for Tempo Göttingen in the Oberliga and 2nd Bundesliga , and since the 2013/14 season for Werder Bremen in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga.
Since June 2011 he has held the title of International Master . He achieved the norms for this at the 79th German Individual Championship 2008 in Bad Wörishofen with over-fulfillment, in which he won against Arkadi Rotstein and Felix Levin and finished ninth, at the 80th German Individual Championship 2009 in Saarbrücken (tenth place) and at the BDO Premier tournament in August 2010 in Haarlem , also with over-fulfillment, in which he defeated Dimitri Reinderman , Peng Zhaoqin and Gil Popilski and finished fourth.
Works
- Karsten Müller and Alexander Markgraf: Chess Strategy , Joachim Beyer Verlag, Eltmann 2017, ISBN 978-3-95920-048-6 .
Web links
- Replayable chess games by Alexander Markgraf on 365Chess.com (English)
- Interview with Alexander Markgraf from January 15, 2008 (PDF; 372 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ German U13 Osnabrück 1994 on TeleSchach
- ↑ List of the Lower Saxon champions in blitz chess
- ^ List of the Lower Saxony state champions
- ↑ IM application to FIDE (English, PDF ; 571.14 kB)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Margrave, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Margrave, Rolf-Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chess player and trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th August 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |