International German Championship 1981

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Tournament hall of the International German Championship 1981 in Bochum

The International German Championship 1981 was a chess tournament that was held from March 17th to April 3rd 1981 in Bochum . The event was also referred to as the International Grandmaster Tournament of the German Chess Federation .

report

Tournament winner Lubomir Kavalek

From 1971 to 1983 the German Chess Federation organized international German individual championships in the years when no championship was held in the Federal Republic of Germany . All of these tournaments were held as a round-robin tournament with sixteen participants each. In addition to the winners of the previous National Individual Championship, strong foreign players were invited to the tournaments. It was a tournament of Category 9 with an Elo -average of the 2456th

The Bochum chess society celebrated its 50th anniversary with the tournament . The tournament took place in the Stadtpark restaurant.

The superior winner of the tournament was Lubomir Kavalek (right picture). The best German player was Otto Borik , who was able to meet his first IM standard.

Crosstab

space Surname 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 Points
1 Lubomir Kavalek ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 12.0
2 Vlastimil hoard ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 10.5
3 Murray Chandler ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 9.5
4th Harry Schuessler 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ 8.5
5 Otto Borik ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 8.0
6th Victor Ciocâltea ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 1 0 1 1 8.0
7th Guillermo García González 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 8.0
8th Raymond Keene 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 7.5
9 Heikki Westerinen 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 1 0 1 7.5
10 Eugenio Torre ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 1 ½ 1 0 7.0
11 John van der Wiel 0 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 7.0
12 Eric Lobron 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 7.0
13 Uwe Kunsztowicz ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 5.5
14th Bernd Feustel 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 0 5.0
15th Manfred Hermann 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 5.0
16 Mihail Ghinda 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 4.0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Reefschläger : "Lubosk (sic) Kavalek Sieger in Bochum", in: Schach-Echo , 1981, No. 7
  2. ^ Norbert Fieberg and Hans-Jürgen Fresen: 80 years of the Bochum chess district. Festschrift , December 2007 (2nd edition), p. 51.

literature

  • Deutsche Schachzeitung , No. 5/1981, p. 145 f. (Report and games)
  • Deutsche Schachzeitung , No. 6/1981, p. 187. (Table and game)

Web links

Commons : 1981 Bochum International German Championship  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files