Maria Schöne


Maria Schöne at the 2008 Chess Olympiad
Association	Germany Germany
Born	April 23, 1987 Großröhrsdorf
title	International Champion of Women (2009)
Current Elo rating	2204 (March 2020)
Best Elo rating	2297 (April 2015)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Maria Schöne (born April 23, 1987 in Großröhrsdorf ) is a German chess player . In 2009 she received the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) from FIDE .

chess

At the age of 9, Maria Schöne learned to play chess from her father. In 1997 she became a member of SV Progress Großharthau and three years later she moved to SC 1911 Großröhrsdorf . The Grand Master Zigurds Lanka was one of her coach. She came to Magdeburg because she started studying psychology in 2005 . However, she remained loyal to her hometown club as a youth coach. Criminal psychology is her career aspiration.

Youth tournaments (selection)

First three of the U11 women in Oberhof 1998:
Friederike Wolk, Sandra Krege, Maria Schöne

At her first German youth championship in 1998 in Oberhof , she achieved a 3rd place among the girls with 6½ out of 11 in the U11, behind Friederike Wolk and Sandra Krege . In 1999 in Oberhof it was already a second place among the girls U12 behind Sandra Krege. She was first in 2001 with 8 out of 9 among the girls U14 in Willingen, ahead of Sandra Krege and Annett Hofmann. In 2002 she won the German youth championship for girls for the second time, namely in Winterberg with the U16 with 7 out of 9 ahead of Helene Romakin and Elvira Mass. In 2003 it was a third place in the U18w in Willingen behind Olga Vaideslaver and Sonja Häcker.

In 2004 she played at the European Youth Championship U18 women in Urgup and got 5 out of 9, Salome Melia won the championship. In 2005 she also reached 5 out of 9 at the European Youth Championship U18 women in Herceg Novi , when Salome Melia was first again. At the 2006 Junior World Championships in Yerevan , which Shen Yang won, Maria Schöne scored 50 percent.

Open and women's tournament (selection)

As a girl, she got 5 points from 9 games at the 2001 Open in Leutersdorf. Mathias Womacka won the Open. This was followed in 2002 by the Open International Bavarian Championship in Bad Wiessee in 2002 (5 out of 9), in 2003 the ZMD Open chess festival in Dresden (4½ out of 9), in 2004 the FAIR Open in Jena (5 out of 9) and the ZMD Open in 2005 in Dresden (5½ out of 9).

At the Radebeuler Open 2006, she sensationally took first place with a DWZ performance of 2488. She also defeated her coach Zigurds Lanka, who finished second in the end. At the 2007 European Women's Championship in Dresden, she achieved her first women's grandmaster standard with 5½ out of 11. Tatjana Kossinzewa won this European championship. At the Gibraltar Masters 2010 she reached 50 percent. In 2012 at the 18th Radebeul Chess Open she got 5½ out of 7.

National team

Maria Schöne played on the second board of Germany's second women's team at the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden . She also took part in the women's team championship in 2007, the women's European team championship in 2009 and the women's Mitropacup in 2008, where she came second with the team.

societies

As a teenager, Maria Schöne first played for SV progress Großharthau , and later for SC 1911 Großröhrsdorf . In 2008 she moved to the upper division club Aufbau Elbe Magdeburg . In the 2009/10 season Maria Schöne played for Erfurt SK in the 1st Bundesliga and scored 2 points from 15 games. Your winning game against Vlastimil Babula was voted game of the season. Since 2010 she has been playing again for Aufbau Elbe Magdeburg. In the women's Bundesliga she played from 2001 to 2009 as a guest player for the Dresdner SC (from 2006 USV TU Dresden), with whom she in 2002 and in 2006 won the championship, since 2009 she is a guest player at SC Bad Königshofen , with whom she 2014 and 2019 the Won title and took part in the women's European Club Cup . In the British Four Nations Chess League , Schöne played for the Celtic Tigers in the 2016/17 season .

Others

In March 2009 Schöne was named International Women's Champion (WIM), she fulfilled the required standards in Dresden, namely at the European Women's Individual Championships in 2007 and at the Women's Chess Olympiad in 2008.