Annemarie Sylvia Meier

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Annemarie Sylvia Meier, Braunfels 2008
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born February 19, 1957
Bochum
Current  Elo rating 2258 (August 2019)
Best Elo rating 2300 (Jan. to Apr. 2004, Oct. 2004 to Jul. 2005)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Annemarie Sylvia Meier (born February 19, 1957 in Bochum ) is a German chess player .

Life

Annemarie Meier (left), 2003 at the German women's chess championship in Altenkirchen (Westerwald)

Annemarie Meier won the German women's championship in Altenkirchen (Westerwald) in 2003 . She was twice national champion in blitz chess (1996 and 2004) and has so far won one German rapid chess championships for women (1997).

With the Stuttgart Chess Friends 1879 Annemarie Meier played in the 2001/02 season in the German Women's League . At the German women's national team championship in 2008 in Braunfels, she got four points from five games for Württemberg on the first board.

Meier graduated from high school at the age of 17 and, at his father's request, began studying mathematics, which he broke off prematurely. Meier came out as a transsexual at the age of 25 . He played chess in Tübingen until 1980, decided in the early 1990s to undergo a gender reassignment operation and, after a 15-year break, began playing chess again in 1995, this time in Stuttgart and since then in the women's field.

Annemarie Meier is listed as inactive at FIDE, as she has not played an Elo rated game since the 2011/12 season of the 2nd women's Bundesliga. She achieved a standard for the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) at the International Women's Tournament in Wangen im Allgäu in 1997.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 37th German Women's Individual Championship 2003 in Altenkirchen / Westerwald
  2. ^ German championships for women
  3. ^ German women's national team championship from May 29 to June 1, 2008 in Braunfels
  4. ↑ Certificate of the WIM standard (English)

literature

  • Men play much more doggedly. In: chess . 7/2004, pp. 54-59.

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personal data
SURNAME Meier, Annemarie Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum