Alexander Wohl
Alexander Wohl (at the World Chess Federation FIDE Aleksandar H. Wohl ; born July 21, 1963 ) is an Australian chess player . He has held the title of International Master since 1994 .
Life
Probably has Australian citizenship, but was born in the former Yugoslavia and grew up in Austria. He studied geology at the Prirodoslovno-matematički facultet (PMF) in Zagreb . He caused a stir in 2010 when he covered the distance between Trondheim and Tromsø in eleven days by bike and tent to take part in the Artic Chess Challenge tournament there. He described the most important time of his chess career as the time when Tony Miles was his guest for six months in the 1990s. During this time his skill level increased from 2200 to 2400 Elo . After living in France for a few years, he currently lives in Byron Bay, Australia .
successes
In 1991/92 he won the Australian individual championship, the open Australian individual championship he won in 2009. In 2000 he won the Oceanic Zone Tournament in Auckland with 7.5 points from 9 games and one point ahead of Zhao Zong-Yuan . With this victory he qualified for the 2000 World Cup in New Delhi , but retired there in the first round against Alexander Galkin .
For the Australian national team he played in six chess Olympiads : 1992 , 1996 , 2000 , 2002 , 2006 and 2012 , with his best result at the 2006 Olympics in Turin : with an Elo rating of 2649, he scored seven points on the first reserve board eight games.
In club chess in Germany he was a member of SK Weilheim . In Austria he first played for Innsbrucker SK, from 2006 for Zirl and in the 2010/11 season for SC Kroell-Technik Schwaz . In the Four Nations Chess League he played for Slough from 2000 to 2003 .
His Elo rating is 2335 (as of December 2014), which puts him in 21st place in the Australian Elo ranking. Alex Wohl's highest rating to date was 2461 in July 2000.
Web links
- Alexander Wohl at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
- Replayable chess games by Alexander Wohl on 365Chess.com (English)
- Blogs by Alex Well (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Australian masters since 1885 ( memento of July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Chess World Championship 2000 on mark-weeks.com (English)
- ↑ Chess Olympiads Alex Wohls on olimpbase.org (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Well, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wohl, Aleksandar H. (FIDE); Probably, Alexander (Austrian Bundesliga); Well, Alex |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1963 |