Heinz Liebert

Heinz Liebert, Berlin 2008
Association	Germany
Born	May 24, 1936 Ochla, Krotoschin district
title	International champion (1966)
Current  Elo rating	2134 (January 2020)
Best Elo rating	2485 (July 1973)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Heinz Liebert (born May 24, 1936 in Ochla, Krotoschin district ) is a German chess player .

Life and Achievements

Liebert grew up in what is now Poland and after the end of the war found a new home in Großdubrau near Bautzen . He studied mathematics , stayed in Halle (Saale) after graduation and worked in the computer center of the Buna-Werke from 1969 until retirement .

Heinz Liebert took part in individual championships in the GDR 18 times and was runner-up twice. In 1953 he won the all-German youth championship in Meissen . His greatest international successes were in 1956, when he was just 20 years old, the surprise victory at the first international chess tournament on Asian soil since the foundation of the World Chess Federation (which earned him the nickname "Lion of Ulan Bator") and the shared second place at the Rubinstein memorial tournament in 1966 in Polanica Zdroj behind Smyslow . From 1956 to 1960 he played in three team world championships for students. He represented the GDR at the Chess Olympiads in 1962 , 1964 , 1966 , 1968 , 1970 and 1972 , where he received bronze on the first reserve board (9 out of 12) in 1968 in Lugano . At the fourth European team championship in 1970 in Kapfenberg , he won a silver medal on board 5. The GDR team won bronze at the time.

He has been playing club chess since the mid-1950s for USV Volksbank Halle (or its predecessor clubs SC Wissenschaft Halle, SC Chemie Halle, BSG Buna Halle, Buna Halle-Neustadt, VdS Buna Halle and USV Halle), with whom he was nine times team champion GDR , played in the 1st Bundesliga in the 1991/92 season and in the 2nd Bundesliga for several years .

Senior tournaments

Heinz Liebert, Friedrichroda 1996

At the German Senior Championship in Friedrichroda in 1996 , Liebert was tied with tournament winner Manfred Dornieden. The places 2 to 4 went to Helmut Lange, Heinz Liebert and Heinrich Fronczek with 7.5 points each. At the Senior World Chess Championship in 2004 in Halle an der Saale, he scored 6.5 points from 11 games. He also played at the 9th German Senior Individual Championship 2009 in Binz (6 out of 9) and represented Germany (after the eighth to tenth) also at the 12th European Senior Team Championship 2010 in Dresden (5 out of 9).

Honors and ratings

He was awarded the title of International Master in 1966 by FIDE . In 2006 Heinz Liebert was awarded the silver badge of the German Chess Federation. On the occasion of his 77th birthday, the gold pin of honor of the State Chess Association of Saxony-Anhalt followed.

Private

Liebert's wife, whom he met as a math student and chess player at the Martin Luther University Halle, was Ursula Liebert , formerly Ursula Altrichter, née Ursula Höroldt, died in 1998. She also played for the USV Halle club . Some of her successes are: GDR champions (women) 1954 in Bad Saarow , third place with the GDR women's team at the 1957 Chess Olympiad , second at the GDR women's championship in 1958 in Schkopau , shared first place at the GDR women's championship 1967 in Colditz and second in the German senior championship for women in 1991 in Freudenstadt .

Heinz Liebert has three children.

literature

• Paul Werner Wagner: CHESS MASTER Heinz Liebert in the Berliner Zeitung, December 30, 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Writings on Heinz Liebert, the lion of Ulan Bator (PDF; 2.5 MB) with a foreword by Konrad Reiß (texts, images, tables and references)
2. ↑ Heinz Liebert's results at the student team world championships on Olimpbase (English)
3. ↑ Heinz Liebert's results at the Chess Olympiads on Olimpbase (English)
4. ↑ Results of the GDR team at the fourth European team championship in 1970 on Olimpbase (English)
5. ↑ ^{a b} 50 chess friends celebrated with Heinz Liebert and Dr. Joachim Kirmas at the USV Volksbank Halle
6. ↑ Old DWZ index card at the German Chess Federation
7. ^ German senior championship 1996 in Friedrichroda on TeleSchach
8. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 90
9. ↑ Honors in the area of ​​the German Chess Federation on schachbund.de
10. ↑ Ursula Liebert's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
11. ^ German championships for women on TeleSchess
12. ^ Biography in the Berliner Zeitung

Web links

Commons : Heinz Liebert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Heinz Liebert at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Heinz Liebert on 365Chess.com (English)
• Replayable chess games by Ursula Liebert on 365Chess.com (English)