Helmut Pfleger

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Helmut Pfleger, 2008
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born August 6, 1943
Teplitz-Schönau
title International Master (1965)
Grand Master (1975)
Current  Elo rating 2477 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2545 (July 1972, January 1976, January 1979)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Helmut Pfleger (born August 6, 1943 in Teplitz-Schönau , Sudetenland ) is a German chess grandmaster .

Life

Helmut Pfleger is the son of the pharmaceutical entrepreneur Robert Pfleger . He spent his childhood in Bamberg , then studied medicine and received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1971 . He worked as an internist and psychotherapist in Munich until he handed over his practice for reasons of age.

Most people interested in chess know him through his frequent appearances on West German radio . For several decades, the WDR broadcasts of Pfuer stood for a large part of the chess reporting on German television. He used to host tele-college programs on Bavarian television on chemistry , biology and exercise therapy. He has moderated chess programs since 1977, often together with Vlastimil Hort . Chess of the Grand Master of Claus Spahn , the live broadcast of the game for the TV Chess Prize , in which well-known players such as world chess champion Anatoli Karpow and Grandmaster Wladimir Kramnik have participated since 1983 , played a particularly important role . In the last edition on August 22, 2005, Pfleger and Hort faced each other and commented on their moves for the audience. Pfleger also moderated Spahn's chess teaching television series Schach - Zug um Zug .

In 1963 Pfleger was tied for second place behind Wolfgang Unzicker at the German Championship in Bad Pyrmont . In 1965 in Bad Aibling he won the German championship together with Unzicker. In the same year he became an international master , he won the title of grandmaster in 1975. Until the mid-1980s he was one of the best German chess players.

In 1981 he carried out sports medical examinations on the players during a chess tournament in Grünwald that was set up specifically for this purpose in order to prove that chess is a competitive sport .

Pfleger published numerous chess books with changing co-authors, including a number of works on the world chess championships from 1981 to 1995. Together with Eugen Kurz and Gerd Treppner, he published a textbook, Chess Zug um Zug , recommended by the German Chess Federation in 2003 . After all , he has been writing a popular weekly column on chess for years in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

Pfleger is listed as inactive at FIDE because he has not played an Elo rated game since 1999 .

National team

Helmut Pfleger at the 1980 Chess Olympiad

Pfleger is a multiple German national player. In 1968 and 1970 he played on the first board for Germany at the team world championships for students and achieved 13 points from 19 games. Between 1964 and 1982 he took part in seven Chess Olympiads and scored 54.5 points from 80 games. He rates his 12.5 points from 15 games at the 1964 Chess Olympiad in Tel Aviv-Jaffa as the best result of his chess career , in which the German team achieved third place and Pfleger himself achieved the best individual result on the fourth board. At the 1974 Chess Olympiad in Nice , Pfleger achieved the third-best individual result on the third board. He also played between 1965 and 1983 at four European team championships and in 1985 at the world team championship .

societies

In the four-track 1. Bundesliga from 1974 to 1980 Pfleger played for SC 1868 Bamberg , with whom he became German team champion in 1976 and 1977 . After the introduction of the single-track Bundesliga, he continued to play in Bamberg until 1982 and then moved to FC Bayern Munich , with whom he became German team champion in 1983 and 1985 . In 1985 he returned to SC 1868 Bamberg and played with them until 1992 and again in the 1993/94 and 1995/96 seasons in the 1st Bundesliga. In the Austrian State League A he played in the 1998/99 season for SK Loosdorf.

Private

Helmut Pflegeer's wife Dorina won the open women's tournament in Bad Aibling at the end of 1973 and thus qualified for participation in the German championship.

Awards

Publications

  • (with Otto Borik ): World Chess Championship '81. Karpov – Korchnoi . Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen 1981, ISBN 978-3-8068-0583-3 .
  • (with Eugen Kurz): Chess: TV World Cup '82. Tournament of chess grandmasters . Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen 1982, ISBN 3-8068-4133-0 .
  • (with Eugen Kurz): Tournament of Chess Grand Masters '83 . Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen 1983, ISBN 3-8068-0718-3 .
  • (Ed.): The best games of German chess grandmasters: Klaus Darga, Hans-J. Hecht, Robert Huebner, Barbara Hund, Erik Lobron, Helmut Pfleger, Lothar Schmid, Wolfgang Unzicker . Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen 1983, ISBN 3-8068-4121-7 .
  • (with Horst Metzing): Chess: games, sports, science, art . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-455-08228-9 .
  • (with Otto Borik and Michael Kipp-Thomas): Chess World Championship '85. Karpov – Kasparov . Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen 1985, ISBN 3-8068-0785-X .
  • (with Ephraim Kishon and Ossi Weiner ): The chess computer: opponent and friend . Nymphenburger, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-485-01696-9 .
  • (with Otto Borik and Michael Kipp-Thomas): The chess revenge. Karpow / Kasparow 1986 . Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen 1986, ISBN 3-8068-0831-7 .
  • (with Otto Borik and Michael Kipp-Thomas): Chess World Championship 87. Karpow / Kasparow . Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen 1987, ISBN 3-8068-0910-0 .
  • (with Otto Borik): Chess World Cup 1990. Kasparow – Karpow . Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen 1991, ISBN 3-8068-1122-9 .
  • (with Gerd Treppner): That's how a chess master thinks. Strategic and tactical analysis . Edition Olms, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-283-00317-3 .
  • (with Gerd Treppner): Board in front of the head. Life and moves of the world chess champions . Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37464-6 .
  • (with Hartmut Metz): World Chess Championship 1993. Kasparow – Short / Karpow – Timman . Edition Olms, Zurich 1994 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-283-00276-2 .
  • (with André Behr): World Chess Championship 1995. Kasparow – Anand . Edition Olms, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-283-00295-9 .
  • (with Eugen Kurz and Gerd Treppner): Chess move by move. Farmer's diploma, tower diploma, royal diploma . Bassermann, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8068-2705-2 .

The chess columns in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit were also published in book form: Schachkabinett (1987, ISBN 3-8068-0877-5 ); Tactics and Jokes in Chess (1992, ISBN 3-283-00252-5 ); Schwupps, the farmer was gone (1998, ISBN 3-283-00354-8 ); Chess Puzzle Book (2002, ISBN 3-283-00450-1 ); Chess Knockouts (2006, ISBN 3-283-00456-0 ); Zeit-Schachspalten (2009, ISBN 978-3-283-01012-6 ); Schach Zeit-Knaller (2011, ISBN 978-3-283-01017-1 ). Regular chess columns also appear in Deutsches Ärzteblatt and in Die Welt. He also published three DVDs The Most Beautiful Games in Chess History and two DVDs Modern Classics for ChessBase .

Web links

Commons : Helmut Pfleger  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ André Schulz : Helmut Pfleger on the 70th In: de.chessbase.com. August 6, 2013, accessed October 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ German individual chess championship 1963 in Bad Pyrmont on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  3. ↑ German individual chess championship 1965 in Bad Aibling on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  4. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 76.
  5. ↑ Keeper's chess column in ZEIT
  6. ↑ Helmut Pflegeer's results at the student team world championships at olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Helmut Pflegeer's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ New In Chess , No. 5, 2008, p. 98.
  9. ↑ Helmut Pflegeer's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. ↑ Helmut Pflegeer's results at the team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  11. ↑ Deutsche Schachzeitung, January 1974, page 26
  12. ↑ Honors in the field of the German Chess Federation
  13. ↑ Interview with Helmut Pfleger ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 26, 2014
  14. ^ German Chess Amateur Championship 2008/2009
personal data
SURNAME Nurse, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplitz-Schönau