Jürgen Fleck

Jürgen Fleck (born October 12, 1960 in Moers ) is a German chess player , author and composer .

Party chess

He has held the title of International Master since 2002 (the last standard for this he achieved at the Borowski GM tournament in Essen ).

In 1975 he won the German individual student championship at Höcherberg . Three years later he became German youth champion with North Rhine-Westphalia in Hanover . He was also third in 1980 in Saarbrücken in the German U20 youth individual championship.

As a teenager he played for the Duisburg chess club Hochheide . In the German Federal Chess League he played from 1982 to 1985 and in the 1986/87 season for Enger-Spenge , in the 1985/86 season for SG Bochum 31 and from 1987 to 1990 for SG Porz . For the police sports club Duisburg he played in the 2007/08 season in the 2nd Bundesliga West on the first board. Jürgen Fleck took part in the 1985 Mitropapokal in Aranđelovac with the German team .

His Elo rating is 2374 (as of January 2020), but he is classified as inactive by the World Chess Federation FIDE because he did not play an Elo-rated chess game in a game in the Oberliga NRW in the 2014/15 season. His highest rating to date was 2440 from July 2004 to March 2005. His best placement in the German Elo ranking was 16th, which he finished in January 1984 alone and in July 1984 together with Ralf Lau .

Chess composition

His biographies, analyzes and studies have been published in the chess magazines Kaissiber and Karl as well as in the composition magazines Die Schwalbe , EG and the FIDE album .

Fleck has also made a name for himself as a study composer and achieved first prizes for his chess studies. For Rochade Europa he was the referee for studies. Fleck published a total of 41 studies, of which 16 won prizes, including nine first prizes (as of April 2005).

Jürgen Fleck
The Swallow, 1995 , 1st prize

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

White to move holds a draw

Solution:
1. d2 – d4? loses, as can only be seen on move 12. This experiment and the solution are initially the same.
1. d2 – d3 !! Sc1xd3
2. Bc3 – d2 b5xc4
3. e3 – e4 c4 – c3
4. Bd2 – e3 (or 4. Bg5 or 4. Bh6) c2 – c1D
5. Be3xc1 Nd3xc1
6. e4 – e5 Sc1 – d3
7. e5– e6 Nd3 – f4
8. e6 – e7 Nf4 – g6 +
9. Kh4 – h3! Ng6xe7
10. Ng8xe7 c3 – c2
11. Ne7 – f5 Kh1 – g1 (or 11.… c1D 12. Ng3 + Kg1 13. Ne2 + and queen win)
12. Nf5 – d4! (This move would not go after 1. d4 because the pawn would block the square) and a draw because of the fork on e2.

Web links

• Jürgen Fleck at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Jürgen Fleck on 365Chess.com (English)
• Compositions by Jürgen Fleck on the PDB server

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fleck was the best student. German chess sheets 1975, p. 228.
2. ↑ 16th German National Youth Championship, Hanover 1978 on TeleSchess (table and picture)
3. ↑ Jürgen Fleck's results for Mitropa cups on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Rating list January 1984 at olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Rating list July 1984 at olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ see StrateGems , issue 18, April / June 2002, p. 112. ( Memento of December 11, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 971 kB; English) or the price report on chess 1995–1996. (PDF; 212 kB)