Michael Richter (chess player)

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Michael Richter, 2013
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born July 20, 1978
East Berlin
title International Master (1999)
Grand Master (2015)
Current  Elo rating 2501 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2517 (October 2015)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Michael Richter (born July 20, 1978 in East Berlin ) is a German chess player and trainer. Since 2005 he has been the founder and owner of the "Schachschule Berlin" at Olivaer Platz . He has been the official FIDE trainer since 2005 and a grandmaster since 2015 .

Life

He made his first chess steps in the chess section of SG NARVA Berlin , where youth leader Ronald Huebner was his trainer from 1986 to 1991. In order to develop himself further in chess, he switched to Schachfreunde Neukölln in 1991 . In the same year he reached fourth place at the German Youth Individual Championship U13 in Neumünster . In 1993 he repeated this placement at the German Championship for 15-year-olds in Berlin. In 1994 he was Berlin champion in the U20, a year later in the U17. In 1996 he won in Schöneck / Vogtl. the International German Youth Championship. In the German Federal Chess League he played for the first time in the 1997/98 season with SV Empor Berlin . From July 1998 he played for SK Zehlendorf , including in the 2005/06 season in the 1st Bundesliga. From 2006 to 2009 he played in the German Chess League with SC Kreuzberg . Richter has been a member of SK König Tegel since 2011 , for which he played in the 1st Bundesliga in the 2011/12 , 2013/14 and 2016/17 seasons . In the Norwegian Eliteserien , he played for the Trondheim Sjakkforening in the 2006/07 and 2008/09 seasons .

Michael Richter has held the title of International Master since 1999 . He achieved the norms for this in 1997 in Bled , as well as in 1998 at the A-Open of the 26th Dortmund Chess Days and at the Berlin Summer . He fulfilled a grandmaster norm in the 2nd Bundesliga North in the 2002/03 season, in which he won against Henrik Danielsen , Konstantin Sakajew and Felix Levin and drew against Robert Rabiega , Frank Lamprecht and Piotr Murdzia . After he met other GM standards in August 2010 at a tournament in Barcelona and in April 2014 at the 14th Norderstedt Easter tournament and exceeded the required Elo rating of 2500 for the first time in November 2014 , he was awarded the title of Grand Master in 2015 .

Michael Richter has been running a chess school in Berlin since 2005, where he offers training primarily for children and young people. As the Schachpinguine Berlin association , the young people he trains also take part in competitions.

Publications

  • Secrets of finding a plan . ChessBase DVD, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86681-241-3 .
  • Secrets of calculating variants . ChessBase DVD, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86681-318-2 .
  • Fritztrainer Strategy - Success Strategies Volume 1: Open Lines . ChessBase DVD, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86681-389-2 .
  • Fritztrainer Strategy - Success Strategies Volume 2: Field Weaknesses . ChessBase DVD, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86681-445-5 .
  • Fritztrainer Strategy - Success Strategies Volume 3: Plan finding & variant calculation . ChessBase DVD, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86681-656-5 .
  • Italian Powerbook 2018 . ChessBase DVD, Hamburg 2018.
  • Najdorf Powerbook 2018 . ChessBase DVD, Hamburg 2018.

Web links

Commons : Michael Richter  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Richter International German Youth Champion . JugendSchach issue 6/96, pp. 13–15 (report, photo, tables and games)
  2. GM application to FIDE (English)