Gisela Fischdick

Gisela Fischdick, 2009
Association	Germany
Born	November 5, 1955 Mülheim an der Ruhr , Federal Republic of Germany
title	International Women's Champion (1980) Women's Grandmaster (2005)
Current  Elo rating	2213 (December 2019)
Best Elo rating	2360 (July 1987)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Gisela Fischdick (born November 5, 1955 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German chess grandmaster .

Life

Fischdick, 1979

Fischdick learned chess at the age of 12 from her father. At the age of 16 she joined the SC Mülheim-Heißen chess club .

In 1974 she won the German youth championship for girls.

In the same year she also passed her Abitur at the Luisenschule high school .

In the women's category, she achieved her first major success with a second place behind Marta Litinskaja at the 1st International German Women's Championship in 1977 in Bad Kissingen . In 1978 at the German Championship in Delecke, she also finished second, this time tied with Barbara Hund .

At the 1979 women's interzonal tournament in Rio de Janeiro , she finished fourth. She then had to play a playoff against Marta Litinskaja for the last free place in the candidates tournament. After a 3-0 lead, Fischdick lost 3.5: 4.5.

In the same year she received the title of International Master from FIDE .

National team

Barbara Hund , Gisela Fischdick and Petra Feustel (from left) at the 1982 Chess Olympiad in Lucerne

From 1978 to 1994 Fischdick took part in a total of eight women's chess Olympiads for Germany . At the 1978 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires, the German team won a bronze medal.

1992 took fish Dick at the European Team Championship part of women.

societies

Gisela Fischdick (1982), second in the women's blitz championship in Bad Godesberg

Fischdick played a total of three seasons in the Bundesliga , namely in the 1988/89 season at Rochade Bielefeld and from 1995 to 1997 for PSV / BSV Wuppertal .

In the women's Bundesliga she played from 1992 to 1999 for the Elberfeld Chess Society 1851 and in the 2000/01 season for the SG Heiligenhaus. She won this with her Elberfeld team in 1993 , 1994 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998 and 1999 .

With Elberfeld, she also took part in the women's European Club Cup in 1996 and 1998 .

title

At national level, Gisela Fischdick won a total of 45 German women's championship titles (22 individual, 23 team titles). She won the German women's blitz championship 17 times and the German rapid chess championship 5 times . At the end of November 2015, she won the 38th German Women's Blitz Championship in Gladenbach .

In 1980 FIDE awarded her the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). In 2005 she received the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM). She had already achieved the necessary standards years earlier. She met the first two standards in 1983 at the Lloyds Bank Open in London and in November at a tournament in Wilhelmsfeld , and Fischdick met her third WGM standard in August 1992 at the Berlin summer .

Individual evidence

1. ^ German individual youth championships: 1st German championship for girls, Lehrte 1974
2. ↑ 1st International German Women's Championship 1977 in Bad Kissingen on TeleSchess
3. ^ German women's championship 1978 in Delecke on TeleSchach
4. ↑ World Chess Championship (Women) - 1979 Rio de Janeiro Interzonal Tournament (English)
5. ↑ Gisela Fischdicks results at the women's chess Olympiad on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Gisela Fischdicks results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Gisela Fischdick's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ^ German championships for women on TeleSchess
9. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 118
10. ↑ WGM application to FIDE (English)

Web links

Commons : Gisela Fischdick  - Collection of images