Karsten Müller

This article deals with the chess player Karsten Müller; for the member of the Bundestag see Carsten Müller .

Karsten Müller, 2008
Association	Germany
Born	November 23, 1970 Hamburg
title	International Master (1991) Grand Master (1998)
Current  Elo rating	2532 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2558 (January 1999)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Karsten Müller (born November 23, 1970 in Hamburg ) is a German chess player and author .

Life

Karsten Müller learned to play chess as a child from his father. In 1981 he joined the SC Diogenes Hamburg , with which he won the German youth club championship in 1987. Since 1988 Müller has played in the first Bundesliga with Hamburger SK , with which he took part in the European Club Cup in 1995 . In 1991 he was named International Master by the World Chess Federation FIDE , and since 1998 he has had the title of Grand Master . Karsten Müller took part in eight German individual championships from 1996 to 2004 , the best result being two third places (1996 and 1997). He also won the Dähne Cup in 2000 . In 2007, starting for the company sports community of a law firm from Hamburg, he won the board ranking on the first board in Essen . He also played in foreign leagues: in the Austrian Bundesliga (state league until 2003) he played from 1999 to 2004 for SK Gleisdorf, with whom he took part in the European Club Cup in 2003, and in France for Marseille Duchamps. In 1995 he took part in the Mitropacup with the German team .

Karsten Müller holds a doctorate in mathematics ( doctorate in 2002 with Johannes Michalicek). He is an endgame expert and has written regular columns for the Chesscafe.com website and, since 1997, for ChessBase magazine . Since 2011 he has been producing training lessons on the subject of endgames at regular intervals for the Fritz chess server from ChessBase under the name "Endgame Magic Show". He is also known as a chess trainer and author of several chess books written in English . He was named Trainer of the Year 2007 by the German Chess Federation .

His highest rating to date was 2558 (in the first half of 1999).

Works

• Karsten Müller, Frank Lamprecht : Secrets of Pawn Endings , Everyman Chess, London 2000 ISBN 1-85744-255-5 (new edition with error corrections: Gambit, London 2008 ISBN 1-904600-88-3 ).
• Karsten Müller and Frank Lamprecht: Fundamental Chess Endings , Gambit, London 2001 ISBN 1-901983-53-6 .
• Karsten Müller and Frank Lamprecht: Basics of chess endings . Gambit, London 2003 (German edition) ISBN 1-901983-96-X .
• Karsten Müller, Martin Voigt: Danish Dynamite , Gambit, London 2003 ISBN 1-888690-20-8 .
• Karsten Müller, Susan Polgar : The Chesscafe Puzzle Book: Test and Improve Your Tactical Vision . Russell Enterprises, Milford 2004 ISBN 1-888690-21-6 .
• Karsten Müller, Rainer Knaak : 222 opening traps after 1. e4 . Edition Olms, Oetwil 2007 ISBN 978-3-283-01000-3 .
• Karsten Müller, Rainer Knaak: 222 opening traps after 1. d4 . Edition Olms, Oetwil 2008 ISBN 978-3-283-01001-0 .
• Karsten Müller: Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion , Russell Enterprises, Milford 2009 ISBN 978-1-888690-59-0 .
• Karsten Müller: Chess endings , DVD series at ChessBase, Hamburg, a total of 14 episodes.
• Karsten Müller: Gelfand-Anand 2012: Match for the World Chess Championship , Russell Enterprises, Inc., November 6, 2013, eBook.
• With Georgios Souleidis : Winning with the Slow (but Venomous!) Italian . New in Chess, Alkmaar 2016 ISBN 978-90-5691-674-9 .
  • German edition: Italian with c3 and d3 - solid and poisonous . Joachim Beyer, Eltmann 2017 ISBN 978-3959200561 .
• Karsten Müller: Position game , Joachim Beyer Verlag , Eltmann 2016 ISBN 978-3-95920-038-7 .
• Karsten Müller: Chess tactics , Joachim Beyer, Eltmann 2016 ISBN 978-3-95920-015-8 .
• Karsten Müller, Merijn van Delft : Defense , Joachim Beyer, Eltmann 2016 ISBN 978-3-95920-028-8 .
• Karsten Müller, Alexander Markgraf : Chess Strategy , Joachim Beyer, Eltmann 2017 ISBN 978-3-95920-048-6 .
• Claus Dieter Meyer, Karsten Müller: The magic of chess tactics . Joachim Beyer, Eltmann 2018 ISBN 978-3-95920-072-1 .
• Karsten Müller, Jonathan Schaeffer : Man vs Machine. Challenging Human Supremacy at Chess . Russell Enterprises, Milford 2018 ISBN 978-1-941270-96-7 .

literature

• The endgame expert. In: Tibor Károlyi and Nick Aplin: Genius in the background . Quality Chess, Glasgow 2009. pp. 220-259.

Web links

Commons : Karsten Müller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Karsten Müller at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Literature by and about Karsten Müller in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Karsten Müller's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Karsten Müller's results at Mitropacups on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Dr. Karsten Müller is Trainer of the Year 2007 , May 28, 2008.