Beat Züger

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Beat Züger, 2009
Association SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Born June 3, 1961
Lachen SZ
title International Master (1984)
Current  Elo rating 2388 (August 2019)
Best Elo rating 2480 (January 1995)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Beat Züger (born June 3, 1961 in Lachen SZ ) is a Swiss chess player .

Life

He is the only chess player who could win all Swiss national titles: Junior Championship, Individual Championship, Team Championship, Team Cup and Coupe Suisse. Together with Claude Landenbergue , he is the coach of the Swiss junior national team.

In 1978 he became Swiss Junior Champion and won the Coupe-Suisse. In 1983 he won a young championship tournament in Zug . In 1987 he won the Crédit Suisse World Mixed tournament in Biel . He won the Swiss individual championship in 1989 in Biel.

He has held the title of International Master since 1984 . He achieved grandmaster standards in 1995 at the Credis grandmaster tournament in Horgen , in the Swiss team championship in 1997 and at the European championship in Budva in 2009 , but the GM title has not yet been awarded to him because he did not achieve the required Elo rating of at least 2500 . In February 2015, he was in 17th place in the Swiss Elo ranking.

National team

Beat Züger and Giancarlo Franzoni , Malta 1980

For the Swiss national team, he took part in 16 Mitropa Cups between 1981 and 2013 with a result of 47 points from 101 games (+17 = 60 -24), and in 1985 he won an individual gold medal in Aranđelovac for his result of 4 points from 6 games received on the second board and won one silver medal (1985) and three bronze medals (1981, 1988, 1993) with the team. With three European team championships (1989, 1992 and 1997), his overall result was 8 points from 20 games (+2 = 12 −6). In 1989 he played for Switzerland in the team world championship .

When he took part in the 1980 Chess Olympiads in Valletta on Malta , 1982 in Lucerne , 1984 , 1986 , 1988 , 1992 , 1994 , 1996 , 1998 and 2006 , he achieved a result of 38 out of 78 (+20 = 36 −22).

societies

He won the Swiss team championship in 1978 and 1987 with the Zurich chess company and in 1991 with the Lucerne chess club , for which he has played in the National A League for many years . He won the Swiss Team Cup in 1995 with Grischuna . In the Swiss Bundesliga he played for Nimzowitsch Zurich until the 2011/12 season , and in the 2015/16 season he played for champions SC Gonzen . In 2007 he founded the FHCC ( Free Helvetic Chess Club ) in Siebnen . In Germany he played since the 2006/07 season for SC Schwegenheim (since 2013 SG Speyer-Schwegenheim ) in the 2nd Bundesliga and Oberliga.

Web links

Commons : Beat Züger  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
  2. ↑ Beat Züger's results at Mitropacups on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Beat Zügers results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Beat Züger's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Beat Züger's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Züger, Beat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zueger, Beat (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chess player
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Laughter SZ