Ludwig Rellstab (chess player)

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Ludwig Rellstab, Leipzig 1953
Surname Ludwig Adolf Friedrich Hans Rellstab
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born November 23, 1904
Schöneberg
Died February 14, 1983
Wedel
title International champion (1950)
Best Elo rating 2265 (May 1974 to January 1977)

Ludwig Adolf Friedrich Hans Rellstab (born November 23, 1904 in Schöneberg , † February 14, 1983 in Wedel ) was a German chess master .

Life

Ludwig Rellstab was the son of the physicist Ludwig M. Rellstab and his wife Anna Kuhlgatz. The pianist Annekäthe Rellstab was his older sister; the music critic Ludwig Rellstab was his great-grandfather on his father's side.

At the age of around eleven, Rellstab learned to play chess in a family environment. After graduating from high school in 1924, he began to study mathematics and physics at the university in his hometown of Berlin that same year . He later switched to Munich University with the same subjects . After a few semesters he gave up his studies without a degree and from then on earned his living as a chess player and chess writer, from 1932 to 1943 as a permanent journalist at Scherl-Verlag in Berlin. From April 1943 to September 1944 he was the editor of the Deutsche Schachzeitung .

The Berlin Chess Society soon accepted him as a member. There Rellstab met the most important players of those years: Emanuel Lasker , Akiba Rubinstein and Richard Teichmann . At the DSB Congress in Duisburg in 1929 , Rellstab was first in the main tournament A ahead of Ripke and Weißgerber. The German individual chess championship was won by Carl Ahues . In 1937 in Bad Oeynhausen he came third behind Georg Kieninger and Kurt Richter . Rellstab was a participant in many tournaments and in 1942 won the tournament of the Greater German Chess Federation in Bad Oeynhausen "Master of Germany" . On the occasion of the European championship in Munich in the same year , Rellstab defeated the reigning world champion Alexander Alekhine .

At the end of the Second World War, Rellstab was used as a soldier in Austria and Hungary. In the summer of 1945 Rellstab was able to settle in Hamburg , where he founded the Hamburger Schachgesellschaft association a year later (July 1946), among others, together with Carl Ahues and Hans Rodenburg . In 1950 he became German team champion with this club . The Hamburger Abendblatt hired Rellstab for its chess column; a task which he performed with great enthusiasm for years.

He was three times city ​​champion of Berlin and five times city champion of Hamburg. Further successes were his victories in Sopot 1937, Bad Elster 1938, Stuttgart 1947, Cuxhaven 1950, Viborg 1957, Hastings 1973 and Bagneux 1973. He qualified 18 times for the finals of the German championship. Rellstab represented Germany at the unofficial Chess Olympics in Munich in 1936 and at three Chess Olympiads ( 1950 , 1952 , 1954 ), and also at the European Team Championship in 1957. He was also invited to many other international matches.

He also gave chess lessons and worked for many chess magazines. For several years he commented on many games in the chess echo . For fifteen years he took on organizational tasks as secretary, tournament director and press officer for the German Chess Federation . It was precisely through this work, but also through his enormous knowledge, that he earned the affectionate nickname “Chess Professor”.

In 1950 the World Chess Federation FIDE awarded him the newly created title of International Master . A year later, Rellstab became an official referee for FIDE. From the same year Rellstab was also responsible as editor of the “Schach-Taschen-Jahrbuch” and he remained connected to this editorial team throughout his life.

Rellstab had a son, Ludwig (* 1935), who, like his father, was a good chess player, but by no means reached his skill level.

Rellstab died in Wedel in 1983 at the age of 78. His best historical Elo rating before the Elo rating was introduced was 2609, which he reached in June 1938.

Publications

  • Queen's Gambit. Textbook for beginners and advanced learners (1949)
  • The chess game. A basic course with a planned representation of the chess openings (1956)
  • World history of chess - Dr. Emanuel Lasker , Verlag Dr. Wildhagen, Hamburg 1958
  • Disputes from tournament practice
  • Tournament paperback (together with Alfred Brinckmann )

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Rellstab  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Balló, in: Schach-Report , No. 7/1996, p. 72
  2. ↑ Wiener Schach-Zeitung 1929, No. 23/24, p. 368 (tables of the main tournaments A and B)
  3. ↑ German individual championship 1929 in Duisburg on TeleSchess (table and games)
  4. ↑ German individual championship 1937 in Bad Oeynhausen on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  5. ↑ German individual championship 1942 in Bad Oeynhausen on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  6. ↑ Ludwig Rellstab's results at unofficial chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Ludwig Rellstab's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ Ludwig Rellstab's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Rellstab, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rellstab, Ludwig Adolf Friedrich Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess master
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1983
Place of death frond