Mathias Gerusel

Mathias Gerusel, 1963
Association	Germany
Born	February 5, 1938 Elbing , German Reich
title	International champion (1968)
Current  Elo rating	2243 (March 2020)
Best Elo rating	2440 (January 1975)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Mathias Gerusel (born February 5, 1938 in Elbing ) is a German chess player and worked as a lawyer in the Federal Ministry of Finance until his retirement .

Life

John Nunn - Mathias Gerusel, Dortmunder Schachtage 1979

Mathias Gerusel was German youth champion in Remscheid in 1955 . At the Junior World Championship in Toronto in 1957 , he reached second place behind William Lombardy . In 1968 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master . In 1979 he played in the grandmaster tournament of the Dortmund Chess Days .

With the German national team he took part in several country comparisons, for example against the Netherlands in 1967 and 1969 in Krefeld , against Czechoslovakia in 1969 in Siegburg and Bad Godesberg , and again against the Netherlands in 1970 in Hengelo . In 1977 he played for Germany at the European team championship in Moscow .

In the German federal chess league Gerusel played first with the Solingen SG , with which he was German team champion in 1974 and 1975 , then until 1988 with SG Porz , with which he was champion in 1979 , 1982 and 1984 .

He is listed as inactive at FIDE, as he has not played a rated game since the 2010/11 season in the NRW class. Its highest Elo rating was 2440 in 1975. Before the Elo rating was introduced, Gerusel's highest historical rating was 2559 in June 1969.

Tournament successes

• Bad Aibling 1965: 4th place in the German championship
• Büsum 1969: 3rd place
• Solingen 1974: 5th place in an international tournament
• Bad Pyrmont 1976: 3rd place in the German championship

job

As a ministerial advisor in the Federal Ministry of Finance, Gerusel was a member of the commission for planning relocation from Bonn to Berlin at the beginning of the nineties after German reunification .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DSB Festival Book 1977
2. ↑ 9th German Youth Championship (West), Remscheid 1955
3. ↑ Deutsche Schachzeitung 1957, Issue 10, p. 319 (cross table)
4. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 91
5. ↑ Dortmund Chess Days 1979 from April 10 to 22, 1979 in Dortmund on TeleSchach
6. ↑ EUROPEAN MEN'S TEAM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP - Gerusel, Mathias (Germany) on OlimpBase (English)
7. ↑ German individual chess championship 1965 in Bad Aibling on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
8. ↑ International tournament 1974 in Solingen on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
9. ↑ German individual chess championship 1963 in Bad Pyrmont on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
10. ^ Information from the President of the German Bundestag . German Bundestag , 12th electoral term, printed matter 12/1832, December 12, 1991, p. 20

Web links

Commons : Mathias Gerusel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Replayable chess games by Mathias Gerusel on chessgames.com (English)