Ilya Schneider

Ilja Schneider 2019 in Witten
Association	Germany
Born	December 8, 1984 Moscow
title	International champion (2009)
Current  Elo rating	2479 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2526 (May 2011)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Ilja Schneider (born December 8, 1984 in Moscow ) is a German chess player .

He learned to play chess at the age of nine. At the end of 1991 he moved with his family to Germany ( Hanover ), where he lived until March 2008.

Schneider played in the German Federal Chess League in the 2005/06 and 2006/07 seasons and again from the 2008/09 season to the 2015/16 season and from the 2017/18 season to the 2018/19 season for Schachfreunde Berlin , in the 2007/08 season for the TSV Bindlach shareholder . In the 2016/17 season he played in the 2nd Bundesliga for the HSK Lister Turm from Hanover, for which he played until 2005 (at that time as HSK Post Hanover ) and also plays in the 2019/20 season. Schneider has held the title of International Master since 2009 . At that time he had already met four standards, namely in the Bundesliga seasons 2006/07 and 2007/08, in March 2008 at the International Neckar Open in Deizisau and at the Open Bavarian Championship in November 2008 in Bad Wiessee . In the Austrian 1st Bundesliga , Ilja Schneider played for ASVÖ Wulkaprodersdorf from the 2009/10 season to the 2017/18 season , and in the 2018/19 season he competes for SK Hohenems . Schneider likes to play rapid and blitz chess and has already achieved some good placements in these disciplines, especially in open tournaments. In his first participation in a German championship in blitz chess , he reached second place behind Robert Rabiega in Ebersbach an der Fils in 2008 , and in the same year he became German blitz team champion with TSV Bindlach shareholders. In the following years, Schneider also achieved top positions at the German blitz chess championships, winning the title for the first time in Mannheim in 2015 and again in Bamberg in 2018 . His sometimes quite unorthodox games in the Bundesliga earned Schneider in one article the title "Germany's best coffee house player".

With white he prefers the Trompowsky opening , as black he plays the Tschebanenko variant of the Slavic defense against 1. d4 .

In 2010, Schneider publicly discussed in the miniseries Profis & Amateure of the magazine Schach with the FIDE master Michael Buscher about the different perceptions of the sport of chess by professional and amateur players, Schneider wrote from a professional perspective.

In 2017 he won the renowned North-West Cup .

Web links

Commons : Ilja Schneider  - Collection of Images

• "The chess zoo" weblog Ilja Schneider

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)