Eric Lobron

Eric Lobron, 2018 in Karlsruhe
Association	Germany
Born	May 7, 1960 Germantown , Pennsylvania
title	International Master (1980) Grand Master (1982)
Current  Elo rating	2505 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2625 (July 1992)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Eric Lobron (born May 7, 1960 in Germantown , Pennsylvania ) is a German chess grandmaster of American descent.

Life

Eric Lobron at the International German Youth Championship 1974

Eric Lobron came to Germany as a five-year-old and grew up in Wiesbaden , where he came into contact with chess at the chess community in the BKA (today PSV Grün-Weiß Wiesbaden ) and played his first tournaments . In 1978 he became German youth champion in Dillingen an der Donau .

In 1980 in Bad Neuenahr he won the German championship for the first time . Shortly afterwards, he dropped out of law school and became a professional chess player.

Eric Lobron won the 1981 Biel-Bienne chess festival tied with Vlastimil Hort in front of Michael Stean . In 1982 he won in Ramat Hasharon and Manila .

In 1982 he was awarded the title of Grand Master by the World Chess Federation FIDE .

This was followed by wins in New York invitation tournaments (Kavkasian 1983 and Manhattan 1985). He won the Berlin Summer Open in 1984, Biel in 1986 shared with Lew Polugajewski , Brussels in 1987 and Ter Apel in 1987. Lobron was the sole winner of the New York Open in 1992, one of the strongest and best endowed chess Open in the 1980s and 1990s. In between he was German champion again in 1984.

In July 1992 reached Lobron with 2625 its highest Elo rating and was ranked 21 in the FIDE world rankings.

In 1993 he won the zone tournament in Graz . In 1998 he took second place in Bad Wiessee after defeating the later FIDE world champion Chalifman . Twenty years later he took part in the Grenke Chess Open 2018 in Karlsruhe.

Eric Lobron is also known to be a good backgammon player.

From 2004 to 2014 he was in a relationship with the Estonian chess official Carmen Kass .

National team

Borik , Lobron and Westerinen , Chess Olympiad 1980 in Malta

Lobron took part with the German team in the 1980 , 1982 , 1984 , 1988 , 1990 , 1992 , 1994 and 1996 Chess Olympiads . He achieved the third best individual result on the third board in Novi Sad in 1990 . He was also part of the German team at the 1985 World Team Championship and the 1983, 1989 and 1992 European Team Championship, with which he came third in 1989 in Haifa .

societies

In the German federal chess league Lobron had a total of 28 appearances in the four-track Bundesliga for TSV Schott Mainz , for which he also played in the 1980/81 season after the single-track Bundesliga was founded . From 1981 to 1983 he played for Königsspringer Frankfurt , from 1983 to 1990 and again from 1999 to 2002 he played for the Solingen chess company , with which he became German team champion in 1987 and 1988 and won the European Club Cup in 1990, from 1990 to 1992 for the FTG Frankfurt , from 1992 to 1994 for SC Stadthagen and from 1994 to 1997 for SV Empor Berlin . Lobron won the Swedish Elitserien in 2004 with SK Rockaden Stockholm . Since 2015 he has been playing again for TSV Schott Mainz, now in the 2nd Bundesliga South.

Works

• With Frank Grzesik: Chess Olympiad Thessaloniki 1984 , Edition Marco, Schachverlag Nickel, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-924833-02-8 .

literature

• Helmut Pfleger (Ed.): The best games of German chess grandmasters . Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen 1983, ISBN 3-8068-4121-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ German individual youth championships 1978 in Dillingen
2. ↑ German individual chess championship 1980 in Bad Neuenahr on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
3. ↑ Theo Schuster : Biel-Bienne Chess Festival 1981 Eric Lobron wins tied in front of Hort! . Schach-Echo 1981, issue 16, title page (with cross table).
4. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 78.
5. ↑ German individual chess championship 1984 in Bad Neuenahr on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
6. ↑ World ranking list July 1992 at olimpbase.org (English)
7. ^ Cross table of the 1993 zone tournament in Graz , document from the referee Gertrude Wagner.
8. ↑ Eric Lobron's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Eric Lobron's results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ Eric Lobron's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
11. ^ Johannes Eising , Karl-Heinz Podzielny , Gerd Treppner: Schach-Bundesliga 1974-80 , Bamberger Schachverlag, Bamberg 1981, ISBN 3-923113-00-5 , page 103.
12. ↑ Eric Lobron's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)

Web links

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