Norbert Lücke (chess player)

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Norbert Lücke, Cologne 2010
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born May 30, 1970
Gummersbach , Federal Republic of Germany
title International champion (1992)
Current  Elo rating 2353 (March 2020)
Best Elo rating 2415 (July 1989)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Norbert Lücke (born May 30, 1970 in Gummersbach ) is a German chess player .

Chess career

He learned to play chess at the age of six. At the age of 13 he joined the SV Derschlag chess club , a club from a district of Gummersbach. With a scholarship he attended the chess grammar school in Altensteig for two years , where he was trained by Luděk Pachman . In the 1988/89 season he played with SG Bochum 31 in the 1st Bundesliga , later he also played with Bochum in the Bundesliga from 1992 to 1996. Other clubs in which he was later active were Schachfreunde Dortmund-Brackel (in the 1991/92 season in the 1st division), SV Plettenberg (with promotion to the Bundesliga and in the 1997/98 season in the 1st division) , City limits Mülheim-Heißen and SG Porz . Most recently he played for the SF Köln-Müngersdorf . In the Belgian Interclubs he had individual appearances for KSK 47 Eynatten in the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons . In 1995/96, Norbert Lücke acted as a chess trainer in the Dominican Republic and also looked after the Dominican women's national team at the 2008 Chess Olympiad .

successes

In 1989 he finished third at the Epitok tournament in Budapest . In July 1990 he finished second behind Michael Bezold at the German U20 individual youth championship in Münster . At the Bad Wörishofen chess festival in the same year he came third behind Tony Miles and Philipp Schlosser . In August 1991 he won the title in both the team and the individual competition at the NATO championship in Cranwell, England. In 1994 he finished second at the Open in Le Havre .

Norbert Lücke often plays the Sveshnikov variant of the Sicilian Defense. One of Lücke's strengths is his rook ending .

He is listed as inactive by FIDE, as he did not play an Elo rated game after a match between Istanbul and Cologne in November 2013 . Norbert Lücke has held the title of International Master since 1992 (he acquired the last standard for this at a GM tournament in Hamburg ).

Extraordinary

Lücke studied interpreter / translator French / Spanish at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences . Since 1995 he has been married to the artist and chess player Eneida Pérez , who holds the title of FIDE Women's Champion (WFM) and who has won the Dominican Republic's women's championship seven times. In 2004 they founded the chess magazine ajedrez.do together . He lives in Cologne .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 104
  2. ↑ Masters of the Dominican Republic at the Federación Dominica de Ajedrez (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Gap, Norbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luecke, Norbert (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach