Hans-Ulrich Grünberg

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Hans-Ulrich Grünberg (born January 9, 1956 in Schwerin ) is a German chess player . In 1981 he became European champion in correspondence chess .

Tournament chess

At the age of eight he learned to play chess. In the 1970s he won the GDR student championship and the GDR youth championship twice, and in 1975 he was GDR champion in blitz chess . In 1980 and 1989 he was the sole winner of the GDR championship, in 1987 he shared this victory with Raj Tischbierek and Thomas Pähtz . He was called up to fight for the GDR several times. In 1990 he took part in the Chess Olympiad in Novi Sad with the GDR .

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall he played with Buna Halle-Neustadt , Vorwärts Strausberg, Lokomotive Schwerin and Empor HO Berlin . In the German federal chess league he played from 1990 to 1993 with the Munich SC 1836 and from 1994 to 1996 with the PSV Duisburg, with which he also took part in the European Club Cup in 1994. In 1996 he was hired by SC Pasing in the Oberliga Bayern and later rose to the 2nd Bundesliga with the club . In the 2002/03 season he played for Schachfreunde Schwerin, from 2003 to 2015 at PSV Rostock (since 2007: SSC Rostock 07 ), with whom he played in the 1st Bundesliga in the 2014/15 season . In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he played in parallel in the Austrian team championship at SC Inter Salzburg.

His Elo rating is 2373 (as of May 2016), Grünberg's highest rating to date was 2530 in July 1991. He has been an International Master since 1982 .

Elo development

Correspondence chess

Although he preferred to play on the board, he began playing remote tournaments in 1970. Here he qualified by winning European tournaments for participation in the 16th European Correspondence Chess Championship, which he finished in 1981 as the winner with 11 wins and 2 draws. He then represented the GDR in the finals of the 10th Correspondence Chess Olympiad. In 1990 he became correspondence chess grandmaster, later he hardly played correspondence chess.

Private

Grünberg studied mathematics in Halle from 1976 to 1981 at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Grünberg's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Results of PSV Duisburg at the European Club Cup 1994 on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
personal data
SURNAME Grünberg, Hans-Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruenberg, Hans-Ulrich (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin