Edith Keller-Herrmann

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Edith Keller-Herrmann (born November 17, 1921 in Dresden as Edith Keller , † May 12, 2010 in Ingolstadt ) was a German chess master .

Life

Keller's talent was promoted in the 1930s and 1940s by the Greater German Chess Federation . In 1936 she attended an international tournament in her hometown and was fascinated by Alekhine's game. She began to train intensively and in August 1939 was invited to a course, the youth chess week in Fürstenwalde near Berlin, in which Klaus Junge and Wolfgang Unzicker also took part.

She won her first German women's championship in 1942. After the end of World War II , she was one of the first women to successfully take part in men's tournaments. In 1946 she was fifth in Leipzig behind Rudolf Teschner in the first championship of the Soviet occupation zone. In Dortmund 1951, Keller was the only woman to play in a strong championship tournament and proved with a victory over Grandmaster Nicolas Rossolimo and a draw against Grandmaster Efim Bogoljubow , who fought two world championship fights against Alexander Alekhine in 1929 and 1934 , that she could survive in this competition.

Keller won the German women's championship five times and the GDR women's championship just as often . She took part in the World Chess Championship for women in Moscow in 1949/50 , where she shared 5th to 7th place. In the following years she was able to qualify three times for the candidates (in 1955 she was third), but she never became a challenger to the reigning world champion. In 1953 and 1958 she was the only woman to take part in the championships of the GDR. With the SC Einheit Dresden , Keller-Herrmann won the GDR team championship in 1957 and 1958 .

For the GDR she took part in four women's chess Olympiads . In 1957 in Emmen , 1963 in Split and 1966 in Oberhausen she played on the top board, in Lublin in 1969 on board 2 behind Waltraud Nowarra . Keller-Herrmann scored a total of 35.5 points from 49 games and won three bronze medals with the team as well as a silver medal in 1957 and a bronze medal in 1963 for their individual results.

In 1978 FIDE awarded her the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM). Her last rating was 2290.

In 2001 Edith Keller-Herrmann became an honorary member of the Emanuel Lasker Society .

In May 2002, the German Chess Federation expressed its gratitude and recognition in the form of a certificate of honor.

She was the sister of the international master Rudolf Keller . She was married from around 1951 to the surgeon Ludwig Herrmann , who took part in the 1956 Chess Olympiad for the GDR. Edith Keller-Herrmann had a daughter.

Game example

Basement - Bogolyubov
Dortmund, 1951
1. d2 – d4 f7 – f5 2. c2 – c4 Ng8 – f6 3. g2 – g3 d7 – d6 4. Ng1 – f3 g7 – g6 5. Bf1 – g2 Bf8 – g7 6. 0–0 0–0 7. Nb1 – c3 c7 – c6 8. Qd1 – b3 Qd8 – b6 9. Qb3xb6 a7xb6 10. b2 – b3 Nb8 – a6 11. Bc1 – b2 Nf6 – e4 12. Nc3 – a4 b6 – b5 13. c4xb5 c6xb5 14. Sa4– b6 Ra8 – a7 15. Nb6xc8 Rf8xc8 16. Rf1 – c1 Rc8 – a8 17. a2 – a3 Sa6 – c5 18. Ra1 – b1 Sc5xb3 19. Rc1 – c2 d6 – d5 20. e2 – e3 e7 – e6 21. Bg2– f1 g6 – g5 22. Bf1xb5 g5 – g4 23. Nf3 – e1 Bg7 – f8 24. a3 – a4 Bf8 – d6 25. Ne1 – d3 Kg8 – f7 26. Bb2 – c3 Nb3 – a5 27. Bc3xa5 Ta7xa5 28. Rb1– c1 Ra8 – d8 29. Nd3 – c5 Bd6xc5 30. d4xc5 Kf7 – f6 31. c5 – c6 b7xc6 32. Rc2xc6 Ne4 – g5 33. Rc6 – c8 Rd8xc8 34. Rc1xc8 d5 – d4 35. e3xd4 Ng5 – f3 + g2 Nf3xd4 37. Rc8 – h8 Kf6 – g7 38. Rh8 – e8 Re5 – a7 39. Re8 – b8 Re7 – c7 40. Rb8 – b6 Rc7 – c1 41. h2 – h3 h7 – h5 42. h3xg4 h5xg4 43. a4– a5 Rc1 – c5 44.Bb5 – d7 Kg7 – f6 45. a5 – a6 Kf6 – e5 46. Rb6 – b1 Rc5 – c7 47. Rb1 – a1 Rc7xd7 48. a6 – a7 Rd7xa7 ½: ½

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1st championship of the Soviet zone of occupation 1946 in Leipzig on TeleSchess (cross table)
  2. ^ The 1951 international tournament in Dortmund on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  3. ↑ Edith Keller-Herrmann's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Edith Keller-Herrmann. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 22, 2004
  5. ↑ Honorary certificates of the German Chess Federation on the occasion of the 125th anniversary
  6. ↑ Ludwig Herrmann's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Keller-Herrmann, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keller, Edith (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2010
Place of death Ingolstadt