Klaus Wockenfuß

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Klaus Wockenfuß (born August 29, 1951 in Ratzeburg ) is a German chess master .

Life

Wockenfuß emerged from chess in Schleswig-Holstein ( Ratzeburg , Mölln , Kiel ) and only came into contact with chess when he was 15. At the international junior tournament in Büsum in 1970, he immediately became the best German participant.

German championship 1974, round 14
left in front the game Wockenfuß - Hermann

At the German championship in 1974 in Menden , he was sixth. He won the German individual chess championship in Bad Pyrmont in 1976 .

He won the international tournaments in Wilhelmsfeld in 1983 and Cracow in 1986. In 1987 he was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE . Wockenfuß also became a German university champion and an international student champion from France. He was also successful several times as a blind simultaneous player on ten boards.

Wockenfuß ' Elo number is 2267 (as of June 2017), his best Elo number of 2415 he had from July 1987 to June 1988.

His second great passion is running (marathon and half marathon). He has lived in Munich since 1988 , Wockenfuß is a qualified economist, but has been working in the IT sector for over 20 years (as of 2006) as a programmer, database administrator, quality assurance and security officer . In 1995 he wrote a short autobiography with 55 games (Milbertshofener Schachbriefe Issue No. 1). For his second club, SC Trudering Munich , he organized four rapid chess open tournaments from 2002 to 2007 . Since 2002 he has also been a member of the Emanuel Lasker Society .

National team

With the German national team, Wockenfuß also took part in the student team world championship in 1977, the Mitropacup in 1976 (which he won with the team), the Nordic Chess Cups from 1974 to 1976 (which he won with the team in 1974 and 1975) and the EEC team championship in 1980 participated in the 1976 Chess Olympiad in Haifa .

societies

Between 1973 and 1980 he played on the first board for the Kiel SG from 1884 , including in the 1974/75 and 1979/80 seasons in the four-track chess Bundesliga . In the single-track 1st Bundesliga he played for Favorite Hammonia Hamburg from 1980 to 1982 , for Lasker Steglitz Berlin from 1982 to 1987 and for SK Zehlendorf Berlin in the 1987/88 and 1989/90 seasons ; until the 1985/86 season on the 1st board.

He was the only player who played the first 100 competitions in the single-track Bundesliga. He then played for Milbertshofen and for FC Bayern Munich , including three seasons in the 2nd Bundesliga.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German individual chess championship 1974 in Menden on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  2. ↑ German individual chess championship 1976 in Bad Pyrmont on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  3. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 99
  4. ↑ Klaus Wockenfuß 'results at student team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Klaus Wockenfuß 'results at Mitropacups on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Klaus Wockenfuß 'results at Nordic Chess Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Klaus Wockenfuß 'results at the EEC team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ Klaus Wockenfuß 'results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ Johannes Eising , Karl-Heinz Podzielny , Gerd Treppner: Schach-Bundesliga 1974-80 , Bamberger Schachverlag, Bamberg 1981, ISBN 3-923113-00-5 , page 106.
  10. ↑ Hans-Joachim Hecht : 1. Bundesliga, 7th round in: Europa-Rochade 4/1987, p. 10
  11. ↑ Old DWZ index card at the German Chess Federation

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personal data
SURNAME Wockenfuß, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess master
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratzeburg