Hermann Heemsoth

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Hermann Heemsoth

Hermann Heemsoth (born December 21, 1909 in Bremen ; † January 20, 2006 ) was a German correspondence chess grandmaster .

Correspondence chess

Heemsoth learned to play chess at the age of 16. From 1931 he played correspondence chess . In this discipline he was - so far the only one - twice German correspondence chess champion, namely in 1951/54 at the All-German Championship and 1966/69 at the German Championship. In the Dr. Dyckhoff correspondence chess memorial tournament in 1954/56, he finished 7th among the world's best correspondence chess players. In 1972 he received the title of International Correspondence Chess Master and in 1986 he finished 2nd in the Bernard Friedmann Distance Tournament in Canada. Thereupon he was awarded the title correspondence chess grandmaster by the ICCF .

Close chess

Heemsoth also achieved an acceptable level of play in close-up chess. In 1925 he became a member of the Bremen Chess Society from 1877 . He won the city championship of Bremen five times and the Weser-Ems championship six times. In 1951 he became a North German champion. In 1958 he won the Premier Reserve tournament in Hastings. From 1971 to the mid-1980s he played for Werder Bremen in the league.

official

From 1956 to 1988 Heemsoth was President of the German Correspondence Chess Federation (BdF) . He also worked on the ICCF Documentation Commission from the mid-1970s.

In May 2002 the German Chess Federation expressed its gratitude and recognition in the form of an honorary certificate.

author

Heemsoth published and commented on numerous games in various chess magazines. He also brought out his own collection of games, “My 75 best games”. From 1949 to 1985 he was responsible for the weekly chess column in the Weser-Kurier. More publishments:

  • Kurt Klar memorial tournament ( ISBN 3-925691-08-1 ), 1994
  • 1st European correspondence chess team championship 1973–1983 (together with Hans Joachim Heitmann)
  • Albin's Counter-Gambit ( ISBN 3-7919-0241-5 ) (together with Ludwig Steinkohl)

Private

Heemsoth studied from 1929 in Hamburg and Vienna. He then taught mathematics, English and sports as a secondary school teacher from 1933 to 1973 in Hamburg and Bremen.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary certificates of the German Chess Federation on the occasion of the 125th anniversary
personal data
SURNAME Heemsoth, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German correspondence chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 2006