Ossi Weiner

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Oscher-Lev "Ossi" Weiner (born September 26, 1953 ) is a German entrepreneur , journalist and author specializing in computer chess .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1972, Ossi Weiner studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and graduated with a diploma . Afterwards, from 1977 to 1981, he worked as a journalist and reported on the German Chess League . He also founded the "first Federal Republican chess school" in Munich. He succeeded in winning the later grandmaster Stefan Kindermann as a chess teacher. In 1980, together with his father, Oskar Weiner, he founded the "Münchner Schachverlag", which was the first publishing house in Germany to send chess computers. Shortly thereafter, he spent a few years at the Munich company Hegener + Glaser (H&G), first as a chess consultant, then as marketing and sales manager. These were the years in which H&G wrote chess history with the Mephisto chess computer, newly developed at the time by Thomas Nitsche and Elmar Henne , which culminated in 1984 with the Mephisto III version in winning the world championship for chess microcomputers .

On November 1st, 1983 Ossi Weiner founded the Hobby Computer Zentrale (HCC) in Munich's Barerstraße 32. His good relationships with H&G remained and he supported Nitsche and Henne in their development work. Was particularly intense in 1985 his collaboration with British chess programmer Richard Lang , who with subsequent models like Mephisto Amsterdam , Mephisto Dallas , Mephisto Roma , Mephisto Almeria , Mephisto Portorose and Mephisto Lyon steadily over the following years until 1990, the World Chess Champion title for microcomputer win could.

At this time Weiner also wrote his first books on computer chess. In 1983 " Schach dem Computer " was created together with Hans-Peter Ketterling and Friedrich Schwenkel. And in 1986, together with Helmut Pfleger , he wrote “ Chess Computer - Opponent and Friend ”, which was published by Ephraim Kishon .

Ossi Weiner also played itself chess and is in the FIDE with a rating out of the 2245th In the 1970s Weiner played in the Bundesliga for SC Anderssen Bavaria Munich , with whom he also took part in the finals of the German team championship in 1979 , and in the 1980/81 Bundesliga season he played four times for the Bayern Munich team.

With effect from December 1, 2017, Ossi Weiner was appointed managing director of Wirtschaftsdienst GmbH of the German Chess Federation .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commercial register entry Munich Local Court HRB 72022 accessed on November 21, 2017
  2. ↑ Ossi Weiner born Sep-26-1953 (English) accessed January 5, 2018
  3. ↑ Mister Chessman - A day with Ossi Weiner in the Hobby Computer Zentrale in Computerschach und Spiele , No. 6, 1993, pp. 46–49
  4. ↑ Briquettes for small coal in Computerschach und Spiele , No. 6, 1997, pp. 63–65
  5. ↑ Mister Chessman - A day with Ossi Weiner in the Hobby Computer Zentrale in Computerschach und Spiele , No. 6, 1993, p. 46
  6. ↑ Mister Chessman - A day with Ossi Weiner in the Hobby Computer Zentrale in Computerschach und Spiele , No. 6, 1993, p. 47
  7. ^ Ullrich Krause : New managing director of Wirtschaftsdienst GmbH. In: Homepage of the German Chess Federation. December 8, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Weiner, Ossi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiner, Oscher-Lev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, journalist and author with a focus on computer chess
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1953