Josef Klinger (chess player)

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Josef Klinger
  Personal information  
Date of birth June 6, 1967
place of birth AustriaAustria Saint Johann
Nickname Pepi
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,331,274
Total prize money $ 1,768,315
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 1
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Last updated: January 4, 2020

Josef "Pepi" Klinger (born June 6, 1967 in Sankt Johann im Pongau , Land Salzburg ) is an Austrian chess grandmaster and professional poker player .

Career

Josef Klinger was the greatest Austrian chess talent of the 1980s. He finished third in the 1985 World Junior Championships and became International Champion that same year . At the 1986 Chess Olympiad in Dubai he achieved the second best performance of the players on the first board (behind Garry Kasparov ). In 1988, Klinger and Stefan Kindermann (who was then eligible to play for the German Chess Federation , but had Austrian citizenship) became the second Austrian grandmaster after Karl Robatsch . In 1988 he won the Bad Wörishofen Chess Festival . In 1985 and 1993 he won the Austrian State Championship .

As with many chess players, Klinger was also interested in other games. In Helmut Krausser's 1989 story Spielgeld, for example, he can easily be recognized as the Austrian chess grandmaster Dingler, against whom the narrator loses a considerable amount of money in backgammon .

In the mid-1990s, Klinger ended his promising chess career (at first he only played sporadic appearances in the 1st Austrian Bundesliga and has not played a rated game since 2009) and became a professional poker player. For example, in March 2003 he surprisingly won the Vienna Spring Festival (€ 80,000) and came second in the same tournament in 2008. In 2010 he took second place at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo (€ 1,000,000). Between 1995 and 2010, he won $ 1,759,013 in official tournaments.

Klinger's Elo rating is 2433 (as of September 2014), but he is listed as inactive because he has not played a rated game since the Austrian Bundesliga in 2008/09 . In the Elo list of the World Chess Federation FIDE 1/1985, Klinger was in the top 100 in the world. He reached his highest rating of 2520 in July 1990.

Elo development

National team

Klinger took part in the chess Olympiads in 1986, 1988 and 1990 with the Austrian national team on the top board.

societies

In the Austrian Bundesliga (state league until 2003) Klinger played from 1983 to 1985 for 1. SSK Mozart Salzburg , in the 1988/89 season for SK Schwaz , from 1990 to 1995 for SC Inter Salzburg , in the 1995/96 season for SK Fischer Wien , in the 1996/97 season for SC Traun 67 , from 2004 to 2006 for Sparkasse Schwarzach and in the 2006/07 and 2008/09 seasons for Union Ansfelden . In the 2006/07 season, Klinger was Austrian team champion.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 97.
  2. ↑ MEN'S CHESS OLYMPIADS - Klinger, Josef (Austria) on Olimpbase (English)
  3. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 79.
  4. ^ Klaus-Jürgen Schulz and Hans Peter Fecht: Klinger Extra-Klasse in Wörishofen . Schach-Echo 1988, volume 4, pages 138 and 139 (report, games, table).
  5. ↑ Schach und Poker, July 2009 on TeleSchach
  6. ↑ Hendon Mob
  7. ↑ Schach Aktiv 2/3/1985
  8. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
  9. ↑ Josef Klinger's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Klinger, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klinger, Pepi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chess and poker player
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Johann im Pongau