Lothar Nikolaiczuk

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Lothar Nikolaiczuk (born March 29, 1954 in Bochum ) is a German chess player and author.

Life

He comes from a family of miners and learned to play chess at the age of 14 after discovering Knaur's chess book by Martin Beheim-Schwarzbach from a friend . At the age of 17 he joined an association and achieved success at the regional level.

In 1978 he took part in the German championship in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and came in fifth place. He won the 1979 Lugano Open together with Sergio Mariotti . Finally, in 1985, he won the Open of the Dortmund Chess Days as an outsider and thus qualified for the grandmaster tournament of the following year. There, however, he finished last with half a point from 11 games. In this tournament he also caused a stir by against former world champion Vasily Smyslov with 1 d2-d3 d7-d5 2. d3-d4 opened and thus voluntarily renounced his suit advantage. In view of its low Elo rating compared to the other participants , it was even referred to as an "Elo pest", which subsequently led to a controversy in the chess press. From 1989 he left Germany for several years and lived in various African countries. He also played chess there and was runner-up in Morocco in 1992 and Kenya champion in 1994 . After returning to Germany, he had various odd jobs, including working for two years at Circus Roncalli .

He has been working as a chess trainer since 1978 . He is one of the most productive authors of chess books in Germany and has published, among other things, numerous test books targeting average club players.

Nikolaiczuk currently plays for the second team of SG Bochum 31 in the NRW class. His DWZ is 2194 (as of June 18, 2009), his Elo number is 2285 (as of April 2009).

Works (selection)

  • World Chess Championship 81 (1981, together with Peter Beyersdorf and Vladimir Budde )
  • Don't Be Afraid of Endgames (1982)
  • Pawn Endings (1985)
  • World Chess Championship '84 '85 (1985, together with Vladimir Budde )
  • Endgame technique à la Capablanca (1987)
  • Targeted middle game strategy (9 volumes, 1989–1994)
  • Openings: closed games (1990, together with Manfred van Fondern)
  • Endgame technique à la Bobby Fischer (1990)
  • The big book of chess openings (1992, together with Manfred van Fondern and Jerzy Konikowski )
  • Lothar Nikolaiczuk: The ELO pest , Joachim Beyer Verlag , Eltmann 2013, ISBN 978-3-940417-48-0 .
  • Lothar Nikolaiczuk: Test book of chess strategy , Joachim Beyer Verlag, Eltmann 2014, ISBN 978-3-940417-70-1 .
  • Lothar Nikolaiczuk: Draw please? I beg your pardon? , Joachim Beyer Verlag, Eltmann 2014, ISBN 978-3-940417-49-7 .
  • Lothar Nikolaiczuk: Hotspot of permanent chess , Joachim Beyer Verlag, Eltmann 2014, ISBN 978-3-940417-66-4 .
  • Lothar Nikolaiczuk: The blind spot: All kinds of reasons for chess myopia , Joachim Beyer Verlag, Eltmann 2015, ISBN 978-3-940417-65-7 .
  • Lothar Nikolaiczuk: Textbook of Defense , Joachim Beyer Verlag, Eltmann 2017, ISBN 978-3-95920-045-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Game Nikolaiczuk - Smyslow (Java)

literature

  • “I was predestined to be a chess writer”. In: Karl , No. 2/2007, pp. 48-55.

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personal data
SURNAME Nikolaiczuk, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum