Harald Lieb

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Harald Lieb, Senior World Chess Championship 1995 in Bad Liebenzell, photo by Gerhard Hund .

Harald Lieb (born December 25, 1934 in Berlin ; † February 7, 2015 in Berlin) was a German chess player , multiple West Berlin chess master and FIDE master .

Life

Harald Lieb was born in Berlin-Wedding . Like his brother, he learned to play chess from his father, who died on the Eastern Front in 1944. In 1954 he became Berlin youth chess champion. He was also successful in athletics and became Berlin champion in the decathlon, long jump and triple jump. After studying at the Free University of Berlin , he worked for a year and a half at the Technical University in Aachen . From 1967 until his retirement in 1994, Harald Lieb taught sports and chemistry at the Rückert-Gymnasium in Berlin-Schöneberg and trained sports trainees. He was married and has four daughters.

chess

In 1960/1961 he was a member of the State Chess Association of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Aachener SV 1856 ). In 1961 he became the master of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lieb quickly developed into a dreaded blitz player .

At the 55th German Individual Chess Championship in Menden in 1974 , in which the later Presidents of the German Chess Federation Egon Ditt and Herbert Bastian also took part, he won more than 50 percent. At the national German individual chess championship in Bad Neuenahr in 1978 he was third. In 1979 he took part in the International German Championship in Munich and sensationally defeated Boris Spasski , his most renowned opponent, who ultimately won the Grand Master’s tournament.

Anatoly Lein - Harald Lieb, Senior World Chess Championship 1998 in Grieskirchen

Between 1963 and 1981, Harald Lieb was West Berlin chess master seven times and was considered a Berlin chess legend of the 1960s and 1970s.

Harald Lieb played for many years in the German federal chess league : In the 1980/81 season he scored 6.5 points from 15 games for SV Wilmersdorf on the first board in front of Rudolf Teschner . Then Lieb played for SK Zehlendorf in 1985/86, 1987/88, 1989/90, 1993/94 and 2005/06 .

Harald Lieb took part in several senior world championships, such as 1996 in Bad Liebenzell (Black Forest) and 1998 in Grieskirchen (Austria).

The World Chess Federation awarded him the title of FIDE Master in 1992. His highest rating was 2341 in the second half of 2003. Lieb was a member of SK Zehlendorf for more than 60 years .

literature

  • Michael Dombrowsky: Berlin chess legends: memories and portraits from the time before and after the building of the wall. Edition Marco, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-924833-66-4 .

Web links

Commons : Harald Lieb  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 55th German individual chess championship 1974 on TeleSchach
  2. ↑ 58th German individual chess championship 1978 in Bad Neuenahr on TeleSchach
  3. ↑ Candida Splett: Harald Lieb (born 1934). Spasski probably didn't take him seriously enough and made a mistake. Der Tagesspiegel, April 23, 2015, accessed on April 15, 2017 .
  4. ^ German individual chess championship 1979 in Munich on TeleSchach
  5. ^ Michael Dombrowsky: Berlin chess legends. P. 238.
  6. ↑ Obituary Harald Lieb Berlin Chess Association.
  7. ↑ FIDE Chess Profile Harald Lieb. Retrieved April 25, 2017 .
  8. ↑ 80 - Congratulations Harald. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Dear, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player, multiple West Berlin chess master and FIDE master
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2015
Place of death Berlin