Matthias Kribben

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Matthias Kribben, Berlin 2008
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born October 13, 1960
Kelkheim (Taunus) , Federal Republic of Germany
Current  Elo rating 2058 (March 2020)
Best Elo rating 2666 (correspondence chess, October 2016 to January 2017)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Matthias Kribben (born October 13, 1960 in Kelkheim (Taunus) ) is a German correspondence chess grandmaster and chess official.

Life

Matthias Kribben studied business administration at the University of Frankfurt until 1986 . At various Berlin universities of applied sciences, including the TFH , he was a lecturer in business administration and insurance. He has been working as a financial advisor since 1990. In 1992 he received his doctorate. His dissertation was published in a scientific series at Berlin's Humboldt University and reprinted two years later by a Frankfurt science publisher. He is the owner of a financial consulting company in Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and has two daughters.

Chess official

From March 2004 to March 2010 he was President of the Berlin Chess Association . Kribben made the chess variant Chess960 known in Berlin and initiated Berlin championships in it. During his term of office there was a rapprochement with the Berliner Betriebsschachverband Fachvereinigung Schach , which, under his predecessor Alfred Seppelt, was in great competition with the Berlin Chess Association.

From May 2007 to May 2009 he was Deputy President of the German Chess Federation and was responsible for the 2008 Chess Olympiad , finances, public relations, the office of the German Chess Federation and the German Chess League .

Since 2016 he has been honorary president of the Berlin Chess Association.

Correspondence chess

In correspondence chess he has been the leader in the German rankings since 2013 and fluctuates between 3rd and 6th place in the world rankings.

He achieved his highest correspondence chess Elo number with 2666 in the 4/2016 rating list, which meant 3rd place in the world rankings.

His first correspondence chess tournament was the German Youth Championship 1978/81, which he won with 25: 3 points.

In 2009 he was awarded the title of Grand Master.

In 2010 he qualified in the candidates tournament with 9: 3 points for the final of the world championship. In May 2014, he was runner-up in the 27th World Championship final.

His greatest successes were the victories with the German national team at three correspondence chess Olympiads, which are also counted as team world championships and whose team captain he has been since 2004:

6th board at the 13th Correspondence Chess Olympiad 2004-2008 (5 wins, 5 draws)

2nd board at the 18th Correspondence Chess Olympiad 2012-2016 (4 wins, 8 draws)

1st board at the 20th Correspondence Chess Olympiad 2016–2019 (12 draws)

In the correspondence chess Bundesliga he plays on the first board of SC Zitadelle Spandau . In the two seasons 2009/11 and 2011/13 he was with Spandau German correspondence chess team champion.

Chess player

In local chess , Kribben is listed as inactive by FIDE because he has not played a rated game since the open qualifying tournament for the Berlin Championship in March 2013. He also plays in tournament chess at SC Zitadelle Spandau and was team champion with the Berlin club in 2007/08. Furthermore, he found the entry in the Guinness Book of Records and in the Golden Book of Spandau for the world's largest simultaneous tournament on May 31, 1997 and the Berlin team championship 2006, which was the world's largest chess tournament for clubs.

His highest rating in close-range chess was his first rating: 2250 in 1990.

Publications

  • Development of consumer behavior in the new federal states: A decision-oriented approach in the light of the Bernoulli criterion . Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-631-47399-0 .

Web links

Commons : Matthias Kribben  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Correspondence chess world ranking list (English)
  2. ↑ Correspondence Chess Elo ratings Matthias Kribbens
  3. ^ List of German youth correspondence chess masters
  4. ↑ WCCC27CT04 (WS) (English)
  5. ^ Cross table of the 27th World Correspondence Chess Championship
  6. ↑ Berlin - City of Records . Article by Dagobert Kohlmeyer from May 2, 2006 at ChessBase
  7. ↑ Elo list 1971 to 2001 on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kribben, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German correspondence chess grandmaster and chess official
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelkheim (Taunus)