Alfred van Nuess
Alfred van Nüß (born May 5, 1898 in Würzburg , † June 11, 1961 in Bad Brückenau ) was a German chess master .
Life
Van Nüß received his doctorate in 1922 at the University of Würzburg with a thesis on "The bonuses of the management and supervisory board of the stock corporation" . In 1923 he settled in Düsseldorf as a businessman . In the same year he joined the Düsseldorf chess club from 1854 . In 1926 he won the Rhine Championship in Kaiserslautern . In 1928 he achieved a 1: 1 against the amateur world champion of that year, Max Euwe , in the "Hollandkampf" of the Rhenish-Westphalian Chess Association against the Dutch Chess Federation. At the international tournament in Dortmund in 1928 he defeated the then World Cup candidate Efim Bogoljubow and ended up sharing 6/7 with Rudolf Spielmann . Place under nine participants.
Van Nüß then withdrew more and more from the practical game and worked as a chess teacher and writer in Düsseldorf ( “48 Schachprobleme” , Berlin 1930; “Neues Schachlehrbuch” , Berlin 1933). After returning from French captivity, he settled in Bad Brückenau in 1946, where he wrote a brochure about Canasta (Minden 1951). According to "chessmetrics", it achieved its best historical rating of 2534 in August 1928.
literature
- Elke Hahnen, Friedrich-Karl Hebeker, Erich Noldus: Chronicle of the Düsseldorf Chess Club 1854. Self-published, Düsseldorf 2006, 152 pp.
- Friedrich-Karl Hebeker: A lighthouse in difficult times - Alfred van Nüß and the Düsseldorf years 1923–1932. KARL , issue 1/2011, pp. 35-39.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nüß, Alfred van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nüss, Alfred van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chess master |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1961 |
| Place of death | Bad Brueckenau |