Martin Zumsande

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Martin Zumsande in the German Chess League 2013/14
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born September 14, 1981
Georgsmarienhütte
title International champion (2007)
Current  Elo rating 2456 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2492 (October 2018)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Martin Zumsande (born September 14, 1981 in Georgsmarienhütte ) is a German chess player .

Life

Martin Zumsande studied physics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 2007 he graduated on the subject of Complex Ground States of Disordered Systems . For his doctorate he is working at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden in the group Dynamics of Biological Networks. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics, the European Physical Journal, and the Journal of Theoretical Biology.

Martin Zumsande has been playing chess since 1988: he learned the rules from an uncle at the age of seven. He has been playing club chess since 1990. At SV Osnabrück he played until the 2000/01 season, from the 2001/02 season at SK Turm Emsdetten . From the 2003/04 to 2005/06 season he played for Tempo Göttingen in the West Season of the Oberliga Nord, in the first two seasons there on the top board, but then returned to Emsdetten , where he played until the team withdrew in 2016. His first games in the top German division, the German Chess League , he completed in the 2002/03 season . Zumsande has been playing for Werder Bremen since 2017 .

successes

He took second place three times at German individual youth championships: at the U13 championship in 1994 in Osnabrück , which was won by Stefan Bromberger , at the U15 championship in 1995 in Rosenheim (winner was Fabian Döttling ) and at the U17 championship in 1998 in Oberhof (The winner was Thomas Hansel). He was Osnabrück city champion in 1996. He was Lower Saxony U15 champion in 1996 in Lingen (Ems) . Lower Saxony U17 champion in 1997, at the Lower Saxony championship in 2000 in Bramsche , he finished second behind Lev Gutman . In the same year he was second at the 2nd Elo Cup in Buchholz in the Nordheide, tied with tournament winner Florian Mossakowski, and second behind József Pintér at the A-Open at the 28th Dortmund Chess Days .

Since June 2007 he has held the title of International Master . He achieved the standards for this in the 2002/03 season in the German Federal Chess League , at an IM tournament in Norderstedt in April 2006, which he won, and at a First Saturday IM tournament in Budapest in September 2006, which he also won .

As a shogi player , he holds the 1st Dan (FESA).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait page at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
  2. ↑ Interview on the SK Turm Emsdetten website ( Microsoft Word document )
  3. ↑ Peter Anderberg: Mossakowski wins the ELO Whitsun tournament in Rochade Bremen in August 2000
  4. ↑ IM application
  5. ↑ Player profile of: Martin Zumsande. FESA, accessed December 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Zumsande, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Georgsmarienhütte