Manfred Nimtz

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Manfred Nimtz (born April 4, 1955 in Warthausen ) is a German grandmaster in correspondence chess .

Correspondence chess

Nimtz learned to play chess at the age of 6. In 1971 he played his first long-distance tournaments. In 1980/84 he took a middle place at the 21st European Championships in singles. Then he won the 19th German correspondence chess championship 1983-86 and is thus German correspondence chess master. At the 3rd European Championship 1988–93 and at the 4th European Championship 1995–98 he won the gold medal with the German team. In 1998 he was awarded the title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster by the World Correspondence Chess Federation ICCF .

Further successes were the 2nd place in the Canadian John C. Cleeve Memorial 1996-99, the gold medal with the German team at the 12th Olympiad 1998-2001 and 3rd place in the 3/4 final of the 19th World Correspondence Chess Championship 1999-2004. In the final of the 18th World Correspondence Chess Championship (2003-2005) he finished 6th with 7 points from 14 games. Nimtz repeated this placement in the final of the 21st World Correspondence Chess Championship (2005-2008) with 7.5 points from 14 games.

In October 2011, his Fernschach- was Elo 2626. Since then he is inactive.

Close chess

Nimtz plays for the Braunschweig-Gliesmarode chess club. He won twice in the championship of Upper Swabia and in the international city championship of Brighton . From 1983 to 1986 he played with SV Tübingen in the 2nd Bundesliga South , from 1988 to 1990 with Braunschweiger SC in the 2nd Bundesliga North. His Elo rating in local chess is 2212 (as of May 2016), and his highest rating was 2274 from October 2005 to July 2008.

Others

Nimtz is a chemist with a doctorate, from 1984 at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , later at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Braunschweig . He has two children. His place of residence is Wolfenbüttel .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Table of the John C. Cleeve Memorial (English)
  2. ↑ Table of the 19th World Correspondence Chess Championship; 3/4 Final, Group 5 (English)
  3. ↑ Table of the 18th World Correspondence Chess Championship, final (English)
  4. ↑ Table of the 21st Correspondence Chess World Championship, final (English)
  5. ^ Johannes Eising, Gerd Treppner: Schachbundesliga 1984-88 , Joachim Beyer Verlag, Hollfeld 1989, ISBN 3-88805-081-2 , pages 106, 112, 118
personal data
SURNAME Nimtz, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German grandmaster in correspondence chess
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Warthausen