Florian Grafl

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Florian Grafl, 2012
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born September 27, 1982
Bad Hersfeld , Federal Republic of Germany
title International champion (2004)
Current  Elo rating 2353 (January 2020)
Best Elo rating 2433 (July 2007 to April 2008)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Florian Grafl (born September 27, 1982 in Bad Hersfeld ) is a German chess player .

Life

Florian Grafl, Andreas Schenk and Ferenc Langheinrich , 2000 at the German Youth Championship

From around 1993 to 2003 he was trained in chess by Uwe Kersten. In 2002 he graduated from the Obersberg model school in Bad Hersfeld. From 2003 he studied journalism and history at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . At the historical institute he is a research assistant for modern history.

successes

Florian Grafl - Lev Gutman at the German Championship 2001

In 1997 he became German U15 champion in Bensheim . In 1998 and 1999 he won the Golden Jumper. He became Hesse champion in April 2000 in Frankfurt am Main . At the German Youth Championship 2000 in Überlingen (U18) he finished second behind Andreas Schenk . With the German national team, he took part in the U18 European Championship in Balatonlelle , Hungary, in July 2000 . The team reached second place and Florian Grafl had the best result of all the players: On the fourth board he achieved an Elo rating of 2683 with 5.5 points from 6 games .

In his youth he played club chess at SK Turm Bad Hersfeld (that was the chess department of SG Hessen Hersfeld from 1981 to 2004 ). In the German federal chess league he played in the 2000/01 season for TSV Schott Mainz , then for Godesberger SK . From 2006/07 to the 2010/11 season he played for SSG Zeitnot Hungen-Lich , then again for one season at SK Turm Bad Hersfeld , from the 2012/13 season to the 2017/18 season at Kassel SK . In the 2018/19 season Grafl will play in the second team of FC Bayern Munich . In the Belgian Interclubs League he has been playing for Cercle Royal des Echecs de Charleroi since the 2006/07 season (in which he was Belgian team champion) , in Austria since the 2006/07 season for Inter Salzburg , first in the 2nd League West, later as Wüstenrot SIR Salzburg in the 1st Bundesliga, and in the Netherlands from November 2008 for Utrecht , since 2017 for the Bussums Schaakgenootschap . With Utrecht he also took part in the European Club Cup 2009 in Ohrid . In the British Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) he played from the 2008/09 season to the 2009/10 season for Pride and Prejudice , and since 2012 he has been playing for the Barbican Chess Club . In the Catalan championship, Grafl has played for CE Barberà since 2009 and in France since April 2009 for Les Tours de Haute Picardie , with whom he played in the top 12 in 2014 and again in 2016.

In July 2003 he had all the necessary standards for the title of International Master (IM) together. He achieved it at a First Saturday IM-A tournament in July 2001 in Budapest , at the immediately following Komercni Banka Open in Pardubice and two years later again at the Komercni Banka Open . However, he was only able to receive the title in February 2004 at the 74th FIDE Congress, as his Elo rating was only over 2400 in January 2004.

Web links

Commons : Florian Grafl  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Interview with Uwe Kersten
  2. Self-portrait on the website of the Giessen student newspaper UNIversum (accessed on August 14, 2014)
  3. ^ Portrait page at the Historical Institute of the University of Gießen ( Memento from August 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. 73rd German Individual Championship 2001 in Altenkirchen (Westerwald), round 7
  5. German Chess Youth - U15w and U15m Championships 1997 in Bensheim
  6. Festschrift for the 60th Congress of the Hessian Chess Association ( PDF ; 771 kB)
  7. ^ German individual youth championships, June 3-11, 2000 in Überlingen on Lake Constance
  8. U18 European Championship 2000 on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. IM application (English)