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Helga Axt (born  August 27, 1937 in Bad Ems ) is a German chess player and received the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) from FIDE in 1961 .

Life

Helga Axt and her younger sister grew up with her grandmother in Prague. She graduated from a hotel management school in Bad Gastein and was a good athlete at the time.

From 1957 to 1961 she was one of the best chess players in Germany . She won the German women's championship in 1957, 1958 and 1961. She was Friedrich A. Stock's favorite chess lady , a member of the Freiburg chess club and reserve player in the 1950s. After she was a teacher in Ihringen in the mid-1960s , she gave up playing chess.

German championships for women

• In 1957 she was first in Lindau (Lake Constance) before Anneliese Brandler.
• In 1958 she was first in Gießen before the blind Hannelore Kübel.
• In 1959 she had an accident in Dahn when she wanted to climb the maiden jump. Friedl Rinder became German champion .
• In 1961 she was first in Wennigsen (Deister) before Gerda Rubin.

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• Pekka Kauppala, Peter Bolt: 100 Years of Chess in Freiburg - The History of the Freiburg Chess Club . Festschrift on the occasion of the centenary of the Freiburger Schachfreunde 1887 eV, Schachwoche Verlag 1987.
• Helga Axt (Freiburg) German women's champion 1961 . Schach-Echo 1961, issue 18, cover page 2 (report)
• Muggenbrunn: Helga Axt and sister on skis  in the German Digital Library

Web links

• Helga Axt at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• German championships for women on TeleSchess (reports and tables)
• Replayable chess games by Helga Axt on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 116 (IM title and dates of birth)
2. ↑ Helga ax and athletics on Munzinger (birth of her younger sister)
3. ↑ Chess and Spear . Hamburger Abendblatt , December 27, 1957