Arik Braun

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ArikBraun11.jpg
Arik Braun, 2011
Surname Arik Imanuel Philipp Braun
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born February 8, 1988
Aresing
title International Master (2003)
Grand Master (2008)
Current  Elo rating 2609 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2609 (February 2020)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Arik Braun (born February 8, 1988 in Aresing ) is a German chess player .

Braun became youth world champion in the U18 class in October 2006 and German champion in February 2009. In the German Federal Chess League he played for the Eppingen chess club from 2004 to 2015 , and has played for SV 1930 Hockenheim since 2015 . In the Austrian 1st Bundesliga he has been a member of SK Hohenems since 2005 , with which he became Austrian team champion in 2014 and took part in the European Club Cup 2008. In the Dutch Meester class , Braun played for MuConsult Apeldoorn in the 2017/18 season .

Chess career

He learned to play chess at the age of five and later joined his hometown club SV Backnang . In different age groups he was German youth champion: 1997 U11 in Friedrichroda , 2000 U12, 2003 U18. Braun made a big leap in performance in 2003 when he raised his Elo rating from 2300 to 2445 and achieved the title of International Master . He fulfilled the required standards at the German Individual Championship 2001 in Altenkirchen , in August 2003 at a First Saturday tournament in Budapest and also in August 2003 at the Infineon Young Masters in Dresden . In July 2004 Arik Braun became European U18 champion with the German youth national team in Belgrade .

At the German championship in Höckendorf 2004 Braun finished 10th. The following year he reached 8th place at the German Championship 2005 in Altenkirchen . In March 2005 he won the International German Youth Championship in Deizisau . In February 2009 he won the German Championship in Saarbrücken with 7 points from 9 games after scoring before Michael Prusikin with the same number of points .

Arik Braun won the U18 title at the World Youth Championships in Batumi, Georgia in October 2006 .

Braun was a member of the junior national team that took part in the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden. There he scored 4.5 points from 10 games on the second board. Since November 2008 he has held the title of Grand Master (GM). He met GM standards in the 2005/06 and 2007/08 seasons of the German Bundesliga, at the U18 Youth World Cup in 2006 and at the 2008 Junior World Cup in Gaziantep .

Arik Braun also works as a chess boxer .

Web links

Commons : Arik Braun  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arik Braun's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ^ German U11 and U13 championships 1997 in Friedrichroda on TeleSchach
  3. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)
  4. ↑ Bernd Vökler : European Team Championship U18 . JugendSchach issue 6/2004, p. 8–11 (report and tables)
  5. ↑ Arik Braun's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
  7. ↑ Cinnamon Nippard: Chessboxers take it on the chin , dw.de August 20, 2012, viewed August 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Arik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braun, Arik Imanuel Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Aresing