Johannes Metger
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| Born | December 15, 1851 Groothusen , Kingdom of Prussia |
| Died | January 25, 1926 Kiel |
| Best Elo rating | 2603 (May 1894) ( historical rating ) |
Johannes Metger (born December 15, 1851 in Groothusen , † January 25, 1926 in Kiel ) was a strong German chess player and chess teacher.
The chess player
Metger learned to play chess during his school days. He made great progress in the 1870s in the Leipzig chess club Augustea . In 1876 he won the main tournament of the Central German Chess Congress in Leipzig . In 1877 he took second place in the main tournament of the Rhenish Chess Congress in Cologne . In this tournament he defeated Zukertort .
In 1884 he founded the Kiel Chess Society , of which he was chairman for 34 years. In the same year he won the tournament of the Mecklenburg Chess Federation in Rostock , as well as in Wismar in 1886 .
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The starting position of the variant named after him
An opening variant in the four-knight game is named after him, which consists of the moves 1. e2 – e4 e7 – e5 2. Ng1 – f3 Nb8 – c6 3. Nb1 – c3 Ng8 – f6 4. Bf1 – b5 Bf8 – b4 5. 0–0 0–0 6. d2 – d3 d7 – d6 7. Lc1 – g5 Bb4xc3 8. b2xc3 Qd8 – e7 9. Rf1 – e1 Sc6 – d8 10. d3 – d4 Nd8 – e6. The idea of black regrouping is to break the peg of black knight f6 by attacking white bishop g5. Metger introduced this maneuver into tournament practice in 1893 .
The chess teacher
Metger gave chess lessons at the Kiel Adult Education Center. His pupils included Heinrich Wagner , Oskar Antze , Heinz von Hennig , Alfred Brinckmann and the grandfather of the chess master Ludwig Rellstab .
In 1886 he published his textbook Die Schachschule .
Private
Metger was the son of a pastor . He studied philology and mathematics in Göttingen . He then taught as a teacher in Leipzig, later in Hanover and from 1882 in Kiel.
Metger died in 1926 of a stomach ailment .
literature
- Literature by and about Johannes Metger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Schachzeitung 1926, p. 40
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| SURNAME | Metger, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chess player and chess teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groothusen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1926 |
| Place of death | Kiel |