Ingo Firnhaber

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Ingo Firnhaber (born May 20, 1942 in Flensburg ) is a German chess player and author of two books on the Nordic Gambit . He celebrated his greatest successes in correspondence chess . At the 22nd correspondence chess world championship, he finished 13th.

Chess successes

In correspondence chess, Firnhaber has the titles IM (International Master, since 1996), SIM (Honored International Master, since 2003) and GM ( Grand Master ). In 2005 he was also awarded the title 'National Correspondence Chess Master' for his achievements in the correspondence chess Bundesliga. With the team of SV Osnabrück he was three times German team champion in correspondence chess. Zitadelle Spandau was the first German champion with him in the 2009/11 season in the line-up of Matthias Kribben , Roland del Rio, Jürgen Bücker and Ingo Firnhaber.

From 2006 to 2007 he took part in the 32nd German senior correspondence chess championship and won the tournament. The German Correspondence Chess Federation honored him with the title 'National Senior Correspondence Chess Master'.

At the finals of the 22nd World Correspondence Chess Championship, he was unable to use the chance to achieve his third GM standard (and thus a grandmaster title). But at the Efim Bogoljubov Memorial A, a double-round invitation tournament organized by the Ukrainian Chess Association, Ingo Firnhaber finally achieved the third and final GM norm thanks to three victories against the reigning German single champion SM Uwe Mehlhorn ( Elo number 2513) against the Ukrainian representative SM Oleg Saenko (2553) and against Maria Gil (2603), who competed for Portugal . The GM title was awarded in September 2010 at the ICCF Congress in Antalya, Turkey.

His rating in correspondence chess is 2517 (as of July 1, 2014).

In Nahschach, Firnhaber is a member of the Kiel Chess Society from 1884 , for which he played in the regional league for several years .

Publications

Firnhaber is the author of two chess books. In these he analyzes the Nordic Gambit.

  • Nordic gambit . Edition Mädler in Verlag Walter Rau, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7919-0303-9
  • Declined Nordic Gambit . Self-published, Kiel 1993

Others

Firnhaber is a retired high school teacher and lives in Kiel - Kroog .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Current German correspondence chess master: Zitadelle Spandau on ZITA chess
personal data
SURNAME Firnhaber, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German correspondence chess player
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg