Andreas Strunski


Andreas Strunski, Nuremberg 2011
Association	Germany Germany
Born	October 12, 1992 Simferopol
title	International champion (2010)
Current Elo rating	2322 (March 2020)
Best Elo rating	2413 (July 2009)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Andreas Strunski (born October 12, 1992 in Simferopol , Ukraine ) is a German chess player .

Life

The family moved to Germany in 2000. His first chess club in Germany were the Stuttgarter Schachfreunde , for whom he has participated in team fights since 2001, first in the 7th team in the district class, in the following season in the 5th team and since 2007 in the 1st team with which he played in the 2nd Bundesliga South and the Oberliga Württemberg. His first coach at the club was Valery Bronznik.

successes

Andreas Strunski, Stuttgart 2001

In 2001, at the age of eight, he was one point ahead of the U10 champion of the Württemberg Chess Association. At the 2001 International Stuttgart City Championship , which was held in Ditzingen , he was the youngest participant at the age of eight. He played in the B tournament and got three points from seven games. At the German U10 championship in 2002 in Winterberg , he took 2nd place. He reached third place at the U16 championship in 2008 in Willingen (Upland) . A year later he was third in the German U18 championship in Willingen. In the same year he won the German national championship with the youth team of Württemberg.

Although he has Ukrainian citizenship, he was a member of the C-squad of the German Chess Federation in 2011 .

Since July 2010 he has held the title of International Master . Until February 2011 he was the youngest international champion of the German Chess Federation , until he was replaced by Patrick Zelbel . He achieved the norms for his IM title in the A group of the 11th Open Internacional de Sants in Barcelona in August 2009, at the 26th Open in Cappelle-la-Grande in February 2010, and at the 81st German Individual Chess Championship in Bad Liebenzell in March 2010, in which he exceeded the norm by half a point with 5.5 points from 9 games and took a shared seventh place in 18th place.