Gerhard Pfeiffer (chess player)

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Gerhard Pfeiffer (born June 14, 1923 in Leipzig , † June 27, 2000 in Hamburg ) was a German chess player .

Chess player

Pfeiffer from Leipzig learned to play chess at the age of 11 from his father. Already during the Second World War he was considered an excellent player and a promising young talent. Until the end of the 1950s he was one of the strongest German chess masters.

Pfeiffer achieved his first major success in 1941 when he shared fifth to seventh place at the championship of Germany in Bad Oeynhausen . He crowned his long stay in Berlin in 1949 by winning the city ​​championship in front of Heinz Lehmann , Berthold Koch and Kurt Richter . In the same year Pfeiffer moved to Hamburg , where he also won the city championship a year later. With the Hamburger Schachgesellschaft he became German team champion in 1950 , with the Hamburger SK in 1956 and 1958 .

Between 1941 and 1961 he took part in eight West German individual championships and in some championships in the Soviet zone of occupation. His greatest successes were the second places in the championship of the Soviet occupation zone in 1947 (title playoff against Lothar Schmid lost) and in Düsseldorf in the all-German championship in 1951, which Rudolf Teschner won. But even in his other championship appearances, he usually ended up in the upper third of the table. He also performed successfully in international tournaments, so that he was named International Master in 1957 . So he was in 1951 at the Dortmund tournament, which O'Kelly de Galway won, fourth behind Borislav Milić and Andrija Fuderer .

From 1950 to 1960 he represented the Federal Republic of Germany at all six Chess Olympiads . He was most successful in 1950, when he took third place both with the team and in the individual ranking on the third board. At the European Team Championships took Pfeiffer in 1957 and 1961 in part.

After 1961 Pfeiffer withdrew from tournament chess and instead switched to chess composition , specializing in fairy tale chess problems.

His best historical rating was 2597 in January 1952.

Chess composition

Pfeiffer came to the Hamburg problem group at the end of 1983 and made the acquaintance of Kurt Bacmeister and Hans Klüver there . He had previously published chess problems in Die Welt und stern . In Hamburg he got to know elements of fairy tale chess and within a short time he mastered various conditions and figures. He published his compositions in this area in the magazine Rochade .

Pfeiffer's complete oeuvre comprises around 550 tasks, of which he had only about ten percent published by the time he died. The 250 of his best compositions published posthumously in 2001 in the memorial book to Gerhard Pfeiffer include numerous original prints.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German individual chess championship 1951 in Düsseldorf on TeleSchach (cross table)
  2. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 89
  3. ^ The 1951 international tournament in Dortmund on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  4. ↑ Gerhard Pfeiffer's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Gerhard Pfeiffer's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Gerhard Pfeiffer's historical Elo numbers on chessmetrics.com (English)

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SURNAME Pfeiffer, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2000
Place of death Hamburg