Fabian Döttling
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| Fabian Döttling, 2006 |
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 Germany
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| Born | 4th August 1980 Heilbronn |
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International Master (2000) Grand Master (2003) |
| Current Elo rating | 2587 (August 2020) |
| Best Elo rating | 2590 (July 2011) |
| Tab at the FIDE (English) | |
Fabian Döttling (born August 4, 1980 in Heilbronn ) is a German grandmaster in chess .
Life
Fabian Döttling grew up in Obersulm- Affaltrach and learned chess at the age of eight from his father Gustav (* 1955), who organizes regional school chess and heads the youth department of the TSV Willsbach club . Döttling studied English and history as a teacher at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 2008 he successfully completed this course. His admission thesis for the state examination is entitled On the Importance of the Game of Chess in the Modern English-Language Novel . In his youth Fabian Döttling played handball in the club as a goalkeeper. Since 2010 he has been teaching English and history at the Evangelical Paul-Distelbarth-Gymnasium in Obersulm.
chess
Fabian Döttling is considered a specialist in the Caro-Kann defense . Since November 2000 he has been an international master . He has held the title of grandmaster since October 2003 - he reached the standards for this between April 1999 and July 2003 in the German Chess League , in Bad Wiessee , Tel Aviv and Baden-Baden . As a child he was trained by Gerhard Fahnenschmidt at the Stuttgart regional base, and as a teenager he trained a few times with Klaus Darga .
Club chess
When he was nine years old, Fabian played for TSV Willsbach , his first chess club, of which he is still a passive member today. In 1995/96 FM Christian Bossert brought him to the Schachfreunde Baiertal-Schatthausen , with whom he was promoted to the 2nd League South in 1996 and in the Bundesliga in 2000. There he played on the second board behind Rolf Schlindwein . In the 2001/02 season he played for Castrop Rauxel . From the 2002/03 season he played for the OSG Baden-Baden , which was then called the Baden-Oos chess club . With the Baden-Baden club he was five times ( 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 and 2011 ) German team champion as well as four times team cup winners and twice lightning team champions . At the German Blitzmannschaftsmeisterschaft 2007 in Rinteln he achieved the best individual result with 23.5 out of 25. In the Dutch Meester class , Döttling played for Schaakstad Apeldoorn in the 2000/01 season , for VastNed Rotterdam from 2001 to 2004 , for De Variant Breda from 2004 to 2006 , with whom he was Dutch team champion in 2005 and 2006 and for Schrijvers Rotterdam . In France he plays for the Cercle d'Echecs de Strasbourg , with which he won the French team cup in 2007 and took part in the European Club Cup that same year .
Individual championships
In 1991 he won the U11 championship in Baden-Württemberg, in 1995 he was German youth champion U15 in Rosenheim . In 1996 he became the first German youth European champion U16 (7 out of 9) in Rimavská Sobota . At that time he was trained by Christian Bossert. In 1998 he was fifth behind Péter Ács at the U18 World Youth Championships in Oropesa del Mar ( Spain ). In 2000 he became NATO champion in Leopoldsburg in the individual (1 point lead) and with the Bundeswehr team (3.5 points lead). In 2001 he won in Framingham , Massachusetts ex aequo with Aleksander Wojtkiewicz , Joel Benjamin and Alexander Stripunsky the Open Chess Championship of the United States (US Open) . In the same year and again in 2002 he won a 36-hour non-stop blitz tournament in Magdeburg in a team of two with Rolf Schlindwein . In 2003 he was unbeaten second at the Info Score tournament in Baden-Baden (behind Suat Atalık ), in the same year he was second at the 7th Open International Bavarian Championship in Bad Wiessee, again behind Suat Atalık. In 2005 he won the Untergrombach Open in Bruchsal -Untergrombach, in 2006 he was second in a GM tournament, the first half of which was held in Hockenheim and the second half in Willingen . In 2006 he won the Dos Hermanas internet blitz tournament on the ICC server, where he won playoffs against Maxim Dlugy , Gata Kamsky , Magnus Carlsen and Bu Xiangzhi .
National team
In 1996 at the U16 Chess Olympiad in Montenegro , he got 7 points from 9 games on the first board of the German team, which took 10th place (with Ferenc Langheinrich , Martin Zumsande and Oliver Nill). Döttling took part in the Mitropa Cup three times . In 2000 in Charleville-Mézières he just missed a GM norm on the second board with 6.5 points from 9 games. In 2002, he reached in Leipzig with the German national team tied for points in second place behind Slovenia. In that tournament, he received a gold medal for his score of 6.5 out of 8 on the fourth board. He won the Mitropa Cup 2003 in Pula with the German team with another positive result of 5 out of 9, this time on the third board.
Web links
- Fabian Döttling at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
- Replayable chess games by Fabian Döttling on chessgames.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fabian Döttling's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Fabian Döttling European Champion U16 . JugendSchach issue 6/96, pp. 16-17 (report and games)
- ↑ Schach-Report 1996 Issue 9, p. 25.
- ↑ Youth World Championships (U10 to U18) 1998 in Oropesa del Mar / Spain on TeleSchess (tables, photos and games)
- ↑ 7th Open Bavarian Championship, 2003 in Bad Wiessee on TeleSchach
- ^ Jörg Schulz: U16 Olympics in Montenegro 1996 . JugendSchach issue 8/96, pp. 20-22 (report, photo, tables and game)
- ↑ Fabian Döttling's results at Mitropacups on olimpbase.org (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Döttling, Fabian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Doettling, Fabian (FIDE) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chess grandmaster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |