Matthias Bluebaum

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Matthias Blübaum, Karlsruhe 2016
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born April 18, 1997
Lemgo
title International Master (2012)
Grand Master (2015)
Current  Elo rating 2660 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2651 (February 2020)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Matthias Blübaum (born April 18, 1997 in Lemgo ) is a German chess player.

Career

Blübaum became known at the age of twelve when he became part of the so-called prince group of four boys, which was looked after by the federal junior trainer Bernd Vökler . Thanks to the support and group dynamics, the “princes” should become “kings”, grandmasters, within a few years. At the German youth championship 2011, Matthias Blübaum took 3rd place in the U18 age group with 7 points from 9 games and had to admit defeat to the higher placed due to detailed evaluations. On June 24, 2012, he won the North Rhine-Westphalian rapid chess championship by 2 points. He was voted youth player of the year in the U14 age group by the German Chess Federation in the 2011/2012 season. In 2012, Blübaum was named international champion , he fulfilled the required standards in April 2011 at the Neckar Open in Deizisau , in July 2011 at the Helmut Kohls tournament at the Dortmund Chess Days and in March 2012 at the German individual championship in Osterburg . In 2015 he was appointed grandmaster , at that time he had already met four standards, namely in the 2012/13 and 2013/14 seasons of the 1st Bundesliga, in October 2014 at the Open International Bavarian Championship in Bad Wiessee and in November 2014 the German individual championship in Verden .

At the U20 World Cup in 2015, he took 3rd place.
At the end of March 2016 he won the first Grenke Chess Open in Karlsruhe .
He took part in the Chess Olympiads in 2016 and 2018 as well as the European Team Championship in 2019.

At the 2017 World Chess Cup in Tbilisi , he defeated Sandro Mareco from Argentina in the first round . In the second round he had to Wesley So until the tiebreak beaten. In August 2020, Blübaum won the German blitz chess championship in Magdeburg .

Elo development

Team chess

Matthias Blübaum took part in the Mitropacups 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015 with the German national team. In 2011 he won with the team and achieved the best result on the fourth board, in 2013 he took second place with the team and third in 2015. He was part of the German team for the first time at the European Championship in 2017.

He played club chess until 2011 for SV Königsspringer Lemgo , and in the 2011/12 season for SC Hansa Dortmund in the 1st Bundesliga and NRW class; from 2012 to 2017 he was a member of the Bundesliga team at Werder Bremen . In the 2017/18 season he moved to the Deizisau chess friends . He also played in the Dutch Meester class for the Groningen club SISSA from 2015 to 2017 and in the French Top 12 in 2016 and 2018 for Mulhouse Philidor . Blübaum has played in the Austrian Bundesliga since 2017 for SK Sparkasse Jenbach , with whom he became Austrian team champion in 2018 and 2020 , and in the Polish Ekstraliga he has played for KSz STILON Gorzów Wielkopolski since 2019 .

family

His father is Karl-Ernst Blübaum (Elo 2253). His older sisters Bettina and Johanna also play chess, among other things, Bettina played in the women's Bundesliga team of the Hamburger SK , while Johanna often landed in the top group in her youth at the German girls' championships.

Web links

Commons : Matthias Blübaum  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Just play chess for a year
  2. ↑ Matthias Blübaum wins
  3. ↑ Matthias Blübaum wins
  4. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)
  5. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
  6. ↑ GRENKE CHESS OPEN final result Open A, March 28, 2016
  7. ↑ 22nd European Team Chess Championship 2019 Open team line-up with individual results Germany. In: chess-results.com. November 2, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Personal results . In: FIDE World Chess Cup 2017 Tbilisi Georgia . ( fide.com [accessed September 17, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
  10. ↑ Matthias Blübaum's results at Mitropacups on olimpbase.org (English)
  11. ↑ Till Schelz-Brandenburg: Will the Bundesliga become the company championship for the GRENKE chess company? in: SCHACH 7/17, p. 58.
personal data
SURNAME Blübbaum, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bluebaum, Matthias (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemgo