Dieter Bertholdt

Dieter Bertholdt (born July 20, 1935 in Dresden ) is a German chess player .

Life

Dieter Bertholdt is a graduate mathematician and has worked, among other things, in aircraft construction. He had his strongest phase as a chess player from 1955 to 1962. After a 25-year hiatus, he did not resume playing chess until the late 1980s.

successes

National team

Between 1956 and 1960 he was an integral part of the GDR national team at the annual student Olympics. In the 49 games that he played in the student Olympics, he achieved 29 points (+21 = 16 −12). His great successes at these events in 1957 in Reykjavík included draws against Nikolay Minev and Boris Spasski , who was already the grandmaster at the time , a draw against Buchuti Gurgenidze in Varna in 1958 and a win against Joop in Leningrad in 1960 van Oosterom .

At the 1958 Chess Olympiad in Munich he played on board four of the GDR national team, which also consisted of the then international champion Wolfgang Uhlmann on the top board as well as Burkhard Malich , Sieghart Dittmann , Reinhart Fuchs and Wolfgang Pietzsch . In the preliminary round, the GDR achieved a surprising 2-2 against the Hungarians, who competed with the two grandmasters László Szabó and Gedeon Barcza , with Dieter Bertholdt achieving a remarkable draw against Lajos Portisch (see example game). Portisch struggled with himself because he had missed the win and his team was eliminated in the preliminary round. The GDR, however, was in the final round. This was clearly dominated by the USSR and the class brother was not spared either: The GDR was dismantled 4-0 and Dieter Bertholdt was defeated by the eventual world champion Michail Tal . Nevertheless, the sixth place jumped out in the end. Dieter Bertholdt lost in this tournament next to Tal only against Borislav Ivkov and Jonathan Penrose , but had a positive balance in his remaining games.

At the Chess Olympiad in Leipzig in 1960 he was first part of the DSV's extended squad. Since he had little preparation time for professional reasons and had a bad result at a training tournament in Bad Salzungen , Werner Golz was given preference for the Olympics.

Teams, individual tournaments and rating

Dieter Bertholdt's first club was the SG Mickten in Dresden in 1949, of which Wolfgang Uhlmann was also a member at that time. From there he moved to BSG Rotation Dresden , but was then delegated from there, together with Wolfgang Uhlmann and the siblings Rudolf and Edith Keller, to the newly founded Sports Club Einheit Dresden . With the SC unit he won the GDR championship title in 1957 , 1958 and 1962 . In 1962 he retired from chess. He only played again in 1987, on the first board of the HSG Humboldt University in Berlin . Currently (as of 2008) he plays on the first board of the SV Turbine Berlin e. V. in the Berlin team championship.

He had great success in individual tournaments at GDR individual championships . At the 6th GDR championship, which was held in Leipzig in 1956, he scored 9.5 points from 15 games and took third place. At the following GDR championship in Sömmerda in 1957, he was second.

His best historical rating was 2514 in November 1958.

Game example

Portisch - Bertholdt, October 6, 1958

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

End position after 56 ... Rc3xh3

After a loss to Lajos Portisch at the 1957 Student World Cup in Reykjavík, Bertholdt met the Hungarians again in the sixth round of the group stage at the 1958 Chess Olympiad. The favored Hungarian team did not get beyond a 2-2 draw against the GDR and were eliminated after nine rounds in the group stage, while the GDR qualified for the final round.

1. d2 – d4 Ng8 – f6 2. c2 – c4 e7 – e6 3. Nb1 – c3 Bf8 – b4 4. Bc1 – g5 h7 – h6 5. Bg5 – h4 c7 – c5 6. d4 – d5 b7 – b5 7. e2 – e4 b5xc4 8. Bf1xc4 Bc8 – b7 9. Ng1 – e2 e6xd5 10. Bc4xd5 Bb7xLd5 11. Lh4xSf6 Dd8xBf6 12. Dd1xLd5 Nb8 – c6 13. 0–0 0–0 14. Ta1 – c1 Rf1 – c8 15. d1 Rf8 – d8 16. Qd5 – b3 Bb4xSc3 17. Qb3xLc3 Qf6 – e6 18. Qc3 – c4 d7 – d6 19. f2 – f3 Rc8 – b8 20. Rd1 – d2 Kg8 – f8 21. Qc4 – a4 Sc6 – e5 22. Ne2 – f4 De6 – d7 23. Da4xDd7 Rd8xDd7 24. b2 – b3 Rb8 – d8 25. Nf4 – d5 Ne4 – c5 26. Nd5 – e3 Nc6 – e7 27. Rc1 – d1 Kf8 – e8 28. Kg1 – f2 h6 – h5 29. Kf2 – g3 f7 – f6 30. Kg3 – h4 g7 – g6 31. f3 – f4 Ke8 – f7 32. Ne3 – c4 Kf7 – e6 33. Kh4 – g3 f6 – f5 34. e4 – e5 d6 – d5 35. Nc4 – b2 Rd7 – c7 36. Rd1 – c1 Rd8 – c8 37. Rd2 – c2 Rc7 – c6 38. Kg3 – f3 h5 – h4 39. Kf3 – e3 a7 – a6 40. Nb2 – a4 d5 – c4 41. Ke3– d4 c4xb3 42. Sa4 – c5 + Ke6 – f7 43. a2xb3 Rc8 – b8 44. Kd4 – e3 Rb8 – b4 45. Rc2 – a2 d5 – d4 + 46. Ke3 – d2 Rb4 – b5 47. Nc5 – d3 Rb5xb3 48. Rc1xTc6 49. Nd3 – c4 Rb3 – c3 50. Nc5xa6 g6 – g5 51. Na6 – c7 Nc6xe5 52. f4xNe5 Rc3xSc7 53. Ra2 – a6 f5 – f4 54. Kd2 – d3 h4 – h3 55. g2xh3 Rc7 – c3 + 56. Kd3xd4 draw.

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Dieter Bertholdt on 365Chess.com (English)
• Article on the 70th birthday of June 14, 2005 by Frank Hoppe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Bertholdt's historical rating on chessmetrics.com (English)