Klaus Deventer

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Klaus Deventer

Klaus Deventer (* 1958 ) is an international referee , German chess player and lawyer .

Deventer was the representative for legal issues of the German Chess Youth . From 2003 to 2015 he was a consultant for competitive sports and from 2015 to 2019 Vice President Sports of the German Chess Federation . Since the Extraordinary Federal Congress on December 30, 2017 in Kassel, he has also been Deputy President .

At the 27th Federal Congress on June 1, 2019 in Magdeburg, after a controversy, he was confirmed in his office as Vice President Sport in the third ballot. The election supervisor declared the previous ballot invalid due to an excess vote. He was also re-elected as Deputy President. On June 29, 2019, the Federal Arbitration Court revised the election officer’s decision at the request of the unsuccessful opposing candidate Olga Birkholz and declared the second ballot to be valid, so that he resigned from office.

In 2012 he was awarded the Golden Badge of Honor of the German Chess Federation for his work.

In 1997 he was awarded the title of International Referee by FIDE . Deventer's best-known assignments as a chess referee include the position as deputy main referee at the 2008 Chess Olympiad and as main referee at the 2018 Berlin Candidates Tournament . In the magazine JugendSchach he oversees the “rules corner”, in which he explains readers' questions about the chess rules from his own point of view.

Deventer is the chairman of an appeal chamber at the regional labor court in Hamm .

Web links

Commons : Klaus Deventer  - Collection of Images

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ Entry at chessDB , accessed on March 8, 2018
  2. ↑ Board, office and representative of the German Chess Youth ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on DSJ @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gerhard-hund.de
  3. ↑ Membership in the DSB Presidium. In: German Chess Federation. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Election contestation by Olga Birkholz successful. In: German Chess Federation. June 29, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Congress on December 30, 2017 in Kassel. In: German Chess Federation. January 8, 2018, accessed July 3, 2019 .
  6. ^ The (27th) Congress of the German Chess Federation . In: Schach: German chess newspaper . tape 73 , no. 7 , July 2019, ISSN  0048-9328 , DNB  001293402X , p. 48-62, 48 .
  7. ^ Elections at the Federal Congress 2019. In: Deutscher Schachbund. June 3, 2019, accessed July 3, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Honors. In: German Chess Federation. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Presentation of the "Regelecke" on the website of the German Chess Federation. Retrieved March 8, 2018
  10. ↑ Interview of the German Chess Youth with Klaus Deventer ( memento of March 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), published on May 26, 2015. Accessed on March 8, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Deventer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player, international referee, and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1958