Erich Thiele (chess player)

Erich Thiele (born June 2, 1930 in Jessen (Elster) , † November 7, 2005 in Dresden ) was a German chess player .

Erich Thiele learned chess at the age of 17 from a master builder from Jessen, who also gave him private lessons in statics. He studied in Zittau , where he played in the chess club, and became a carpenter.

Thiele, who worked as a civil engineer and structural engineer in Dresden from 1952, joined the Bau-Union Dresden chess club in the same year , where he won the 1953/1954 district team championship with Wolfgang Uhlmann, among others . In 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1965 he won the title of Dresden City Master and four times between 1962 and 1974 the title of District Master. For family reasons, he could not take part in a GDR chess championship for which he had qualified. Thiele later played for SC Einheit Dresden , Post Dresden and USV TU Dresden .

In correspondence chess , which Thiele started early on, he became European champion at the Third Correspondence Chess European Championship (EM) in 1968 with eleven wins and three draws . After Werner Stern at the first EM, he was the second European correspondence chess champion from the GDR . Thiele also took part in the sixth correspondence chess world championship. Since he did not make any notes about running games, these are only insufficiently documented.

Between 1957 and 1977 Thiele published nearly twenty chess compositions , about half of which were studies . He died on November 7th, 2005 after a long illness.

Web links

• Obituary in Rochade Sachsen No. 12, 2005; Reproduced on the website of the German Chess Federation
• Article from Schach , No. 9, 1968, p. 280 ff .; Playback on the website of the German Chess Federation ( JPG format)
• Compositions by Erich Thiele (chess player) on the Schwalbe's PDB server