Markus Schaub
Markus Schaub (born February 21, 1951 in Davos ) is a Swiss mill grandmaster.
Mill game
For Mühlespiel Schaub came in 1977. In 1978 he founded with Martin Romang the mill Spielverein Bern (MVB). He first trained with MM Martin Romang from 1978 to 1982. Then, because Martin Romang fell ill, Schaub received further training from Grand Master (GM) Hans Schürmann . In 1982 he won his first tournament. In 1984 and 1985 he set two records that are still unbroken worldwide today: he won 13 tournaments in a row and remained undefeated in tournaments for 14 ½ months. In 1992 he became Grandmaster and 1995 in Hutton-le-Hole as the first non-English world champion; In 2000 the championship titles in Switzerland and Europe followed. In February 2004 he was the first player ever to celebrate his hundredth first place. In the meantime, with GM Alain Flury, there are only two mill players in the world who have achieved first place over 100 times (as of June 2016).
Several successful players have learned the basics of the mill game at Schaub: the grandmasters Alain Flury, who dominated the mill game tournaments for a long time, Daniel Lehner and Franz Schmid as well as the mill masters Christian Hugi, Robert Abbühl, Ramis Mehmedoski. Anyone who learned the game from him had to write down the variants (notation as in chess) and learn to analyze them.
From the founding of the Mühlespielverein Bern, Markus Schaub always held an office on the board for 26 years and headed it for 23 years (1982–2005). When it was handed over to younger hands in 2005, he was made honorary chairman of the MVB. Schaub was chairman of the World Mühlespiel umbrella organization from its inception in 1993 until its resignation on December 31, 2008. When Schaub won the German Open in Herzberg (Harz) for the second time in 2001, he received a six-month commitment in Las Vegas (USA), which he could not compete because the person who hired him went bankrupt. Schaub ended the tournament competitions in December 2013 by winning the senior rating of the Mühlespielverein Bern. He only competes in show competitions at trade fairs and on public mill playgrounds (Bärenplatz Bern), for example at the BEA trade fair in Bern in 2016, at the MUBA in 2019 and at the Museum Night in Basel in 2020.
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| SURNAME | Schaub, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss mill grandmaster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Davos |