Axel Heinz

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Axel Heinz (born December 27, 1987 in Kemnath ) is a German chess player .

Life

At the age of five, Heinz learned to play chess from his grandfather. His first chess club was the SK Grundig Bayreuth . When this dissolved, he moved to SC Creußen . In 1998 he joined TSV Bindlach (today TSV-Bindlach shareholder ), for which he played until 2014 and in the 2007/08 season he also played in the German 1st Chess Bundesliga . In the Norwegian 1st division he played for the Oslo Schakselskap , with whom he was Norwegian team champion in the 2010/11 season . In 2014 Heinz ended his chess career.

He was trained by chess trainer Jürgen Delitzsch, sporadically also by Johannes Zwanzger.

Axel Heinz attended the Graf-Münster-Gymnasium in Bayreuth . From 2007 to 2011 he completed a bachelor's degree in business informatics at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg . After a year abroad at the BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo ( business administration ), he studied business administration at the University of St. Gallen from 2011 to 2013 and spent an exchange semester at Tsinghua University in 2013 .

successes

Axel Heinz, Stephan Raach and Carsten Weichhold, award ceremony of the German U11 champions, 1998 in Oberhof

In 1997 he won the Bavarian individual championship U11. At the German U11 championship in 1998 in Oberhof , he took second place. He also came in second at the German U12 championship in 1999 in Oberhof. Twice he took part in youth world championships (U12 in Oropesa del Mar 1998 and U16 in Heraklion 2002) and finished 11th and 35th, each in the front midfield. In 2003 he won the 9th invitation tournament of the Bavarian Chess Youth in Burgthann . His greatest success is probably winning the First Saturday GM tournament in Budapest in April 2009.

He received the title of International Master in July 2009. He achieved the standards for this at the 8th International Bavarian Championship in Bad Wiessee in November 2004 , at the subsequent International Bavarian Championship a year later, and at a First Saturday GM tournament in Budapest in April 2009 (overachievement by 1.5 points) and the 2nd Bundesliga East in the 2008/09 season. Its highest ever in 2019 as of March Elo rating was 2457 from October 2012 to April 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of Axel Heinz from the 2006/07 season ( memento of October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at TSV Bindlach shareholder ( PDF ; 105 kB, version in the Internet Archive of October 27, 2007)
  2. ↑ German Chess Youth - National U11 Championships 1998 in Oberhof
  3. ↑ German Chess Youth - Youth Championships U12, 1999 in Oberhof
  4. ↑ Youth World Championships (U10 to U18) 1998 in Oropesa del Mar / Spain on TeleSchess (tables, photos and games)
  5. ↑ IM application (PDF, English; 1.3 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Heinz, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Kemnath