Lothar Vogt


Lothar Vogt, 2008
Surname	Lothar Helmut Vogt
Association	Germany Germany
Born	January 17, 1952 Goerlitz
title	International Master (1973) Grand Master (1976)
Current Elo rating	2359 (April 2020)
Best Elo rating	2530 (July 1992)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Lothar Helmut Vogt (* 17th January 1952 in Görlitz ) is a German Chess - Grandmaster .

Life

Lothar Vogt became International Master in 1973 and Grand Master in 1976. He won the GDR junior title in 1968 and was one of the GDR leaders in the 1970s and 1980s, which he proved with two state championships (1977 and 1979).

Vogt has also done very well in many international tournaments: Warsaw (1969, 1st place), Zinnowitz (1970, 1st – 2nd), Starý Smokovec (1972, 1st and 1979, 2nd), Leipzig (1974, 1st place) . – 2.), Kecskemét (1977, 1.), Nałęczów (1979, 1. – 3.) And Polanica-Zdrój (1982, 1.). Vogt won the Open Leukerbad in 2002, as was the case in Lenk in 2006 (ahead of Andreï Sokolov ).

Vogt was the boarding school director of the sports high school in Leipzig.

National team

With the national team of the GDR Vogt took part in the Chess Olympiads in Skopje in 1972 and in Thessaloniki in 1988 and the European team championship in 1970 in Kapfenberg , in which the GDR took third place.

societies

In the German Federal Chess League, Vogt played for SG Porz from 1990 to 2000 , with whom he became German team champion in 1994 , 1996 , 1998 , 1999 and 2000 and also took part in the 1992 European Club Cup . He then played from 2000 to 2003 in the 2nd Bundesliga and Oberliga for SC Bann and from 2003 to 2006 for SC Leipzig-Gohlis , initially in the 2nd Bundesliga, and in the 2005/06 season in the 1st Bundesliga. Vogt has been playing for the Eppingen chess club since 2006 . At the same time, Vogt plays in the National League A (NLA) of the Swiss team championship for the Zurich chess company , with which he became Swiss team champion in 1999 , 2002 , 2003 , 2005 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 and 2016 and in 2006, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015 on European Club Cup participated. In the Austrian Bundesliga (state league until 2003) he played from 1998 to 2004 for SV NÖ Melk-Wachau (until 1999 SK Loosdorf ) and in the 2004/05 season for ESV Austria Graz .