Melanie Lubbe


Melanie Lubbe, 2011 in Stuttgart
Association	Germany Germany
Born	June 23, 1990 Leipzig
title	International Master of Women (2009) Grand Master of Women (2012)
Current Elo rating	2287 (March 2020)
Best Elo rating	2387 (March 2012)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Melanie Lubbe , née Melanie Ohme (born June 23, 1990 in Leipzig ) is a German chess player .

Life

Lubbe is the oldest of six siblings. She learned to play chess from her parents at the age of four. At the age of seven she began to play in the club and was initially taught by the club coach Paul Gaffron. She was also trained by Burkhard Starke, Lothar Vogt , Miroslav Schwarz , Hendrik Hoffmann, Roland Voigt and David Lobzhanidze.

Lubbe studied psychology at the University of Mannheim from 2010 to 2013 and graduated with a bachelor's degree. In February 2011 she received the Silver Badge of Honor of the German Chess Federation . Her master’s degree in Groningen focused on work and organizational psychology. Since February 2015 she has been working as a personnel consultant in Braunschweig .

Since 2015 she has been married to Nikolas Lubbe , who has the title of International Master . The choice of the common surname was decided in a game of blitz chess.

successes

She has held the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) since 2009 . She achieved her first WIM standard at the U14w World Youth Championship in 2004 in Heraklion , the second at the Women's Mitropa Cup 2006 in Brno and the third at the 2008 Women's Chess Olympiad in Dresden . In youth chess she was German U14w Champion in 2003, U16w Champion in 2005 and U18w Champion in 2008.

In 2012 she received the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM) from FIDE . She reached the norms for the title in the 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons of the German Women's Bundesliga and at the 2011 European Women's Team Championship in Porto Carras .

In January 2016 she was in 6th place in the German Elo ranking for women.

**Elo development**

National team

Chess Olympiad 2012 in Istanbul : Michna , Lubbe, Melamed and Pähtz

Melanie Lubbe took part with the German women's national team in the 2008 Chess Olympiads in Dresden, 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk , 2012 in Istanbul , 2014 in Tromsø and 2016 in Baku .

She also played at the 2007 Women's World Team Championships in Yekaterinburg and the 2007 Women's European Team Championships in Heraklion, 2009 in Novi Sad , 2011 in Porto Carras and 2015 in Reykjavík . At the 2011 European Women's Team Championship, she achieved the second-best individual result on the third board.

societies

She played for SC Leipzig-Gohlis since 1998 . In this she was part of the first team in the 2nd Bundesliga and Oberliga Ost from the 2007/08 season . But she already had two appearances in the 1st Bundesliga in the 2005/06 season .

Melanie Lubbe has been playing for Schachfreunde Neuberg in the Oberliga and 2nd Bundesliga since 2010 . In the women's Bundesliga she played in the 2004/05 season and from 2007 to 2011 at SC Leipzig-Gohlis (last season as a guest player).

From the 2011/12 season to the 2015/16 season she played as a guest player for the Chessfreunde von 1891 Friedberg eV , in the 2016/17 season Lubbe is active as a guest player with the Rodewische Schachmiezen .

Melanie Lubbe played for The Smashing Pawns Bieles in Luxembourg in the 2014/15 season , in the Netherlands she played in the Meester class with the SISSA Groningen team in the 2014/15 season and again in the 2016/17 season .