Otto Benkner

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Otto Benkner, 1953

Otto Benkner (born April 5, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 26, 1996 in Saarbrücken ) was a Saarland chess player .

Life

Otto Benkner grew up in Frankfurt am Main. From 1938 he lived in Saarbrücken. In 1943 he lost his left arm to a shrapnel on the Eastern Front . After his return in 1944 he moved to a more rural part of the Saarland. For health reasons, he only played active tournament chess until 1967. At the Saarland Chess Association he held several functions, including that of press attendant. From 1948 to 1990 he was in charge of the chess corner in the Saturday supplement Heim und Freizeit of the Saarbrücker Zeitung , which was taken over by Herbert Bastian in 1991 .

Chess successes

The Frankfurt time

He was successful several times at the Frankfurt City Championships. In 1928 he reached second place with five points from eight games. He won the city championship in 1930. In 1932 he was third with 4.5 out of 7, in 1934 third again, this time with 7.5 out of 11. In 1934 he won the Middle Rhine Chess Congress in Bad Ems with 5 out of 7. At the German national championship in Wiesbaden in 1934 , playing on the second board, he reached third place with the selection of the Middle Rhine. In 1935 he finished second at the Frankfurt city championship with 12 out of 17, in 1936 he was second again, this time with 12.5 out of 16. In 1937 he was Frankfurt city champion for the second time. At the 61st Central Rhine Chess Congress in 1937 in the Frankfurt Liederhalle, he took a shared second place. Although already living in Saarland, he again took part in a Frankfurt city championship in 1940 and finished second with 6 out of 9. Since there were two organizing associations (the KdF-Schachgemeinschaft and the Großdeutsche Schachbund ), two city championships were held this year. As a native of Frankfurt, he also took part in later city championships after the Second World War. Otto Benkner played club chess when he was in Frankfurt for Chessfreunde Frankfurt 1921 , with whom he finished fifth at the 1938 German team championships.

The Saarland time

He then had greater chess successes than in Frankfurt after moving to the Saarland. Here he was eleven times Saarland individual champion, most recently in 1966 - at his first Saarland individual championship in 1939 he was second. He became national individual champion through these victories in 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1954, while Saarland was part of Germany in his other victories. He played club chess from 1939 for SV Saarbrücken in 1939 , and in the 1960s for ATSV Saarbrücken . The city championship of Saarbrücken in 1941 he finished in second place, the following city championship in 1942 he won with ten wins in ten games and three points ahead.

At the time of the separation of the Saarland after the Second World War, the Saar state took part in three Chess Olympiads between 1952 and 1956 . At the 1952 Chess Olympiad in Helsinki , Benkner played on the second board and was the only player on the team to have a positive result of 9 points from 14 games, which meant the fifth best result of all players on the second board at this Olympiad. He was the only one of all Saarland players who played in every game, where he managed to win against the Czechoslovak world-class player Luděk Pachman . However, Saarland only came in 24th out of 25 participating nations. In 1954 in Amsterdam he played for Saarland on the top board and again he was the only player on the team with a positive result (10 out of 16). Here he achieved victories against, for example, Daniel Abraham Yanofsky and Enrico Paoli . Against Bent Larsen remisierte Benkner in the group phase. When they met again, he won against him in the B final. The team, however, was only 22nd out of 26 participants. In 1956 in Moscow he played for the last time in a chess Olympiad, but this time less successfully. On the top board, he only scored five points from 13 games. The team was 26th out of 34 participants.

His best historical rating was calculated to be 2527 for November 1954. However, this is not very meaningful, as only six tournaments in which Otto Benkner participated were taken into account for the calculation.

Web links

Commons : Otto Benkner  - Collection of Images

literature

Wolfgang Maier: Chess on the Saar. Volume 1, From the Beginning to 1945 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the SSV from 1921 - 2006 by Wolfgang Maier ( PDF ; 1.73 MB)
  2. ↑ Frankfurt City Championship - Honor Roll
  3. ↑ Deutsche Schachzeitung from June 1928, p. 164
  4. ^ German chess sheets from September 1, 1930, p. 261
  5. ↑ Deutsche Schachzeitung No. 5 from May 1932, p. 135
  6. ↑ a b 50 years of Saarländischer SV , Festschrift 1970. P. 16f
  7. ^ Bad Nauheimer Zeitung, April 4, 1934
  8. ↑ Deutsche Schachblätter 23/1934, p. 225
  9. ↑ Deutsche Schachblätter 1935, No. 6, p. 92
  10. ↑ General-Anzeiger Frankfurt, April 7, 1936
  11. ↑ Honor roll of the Frankfurt City Championship
  12. ↑ Deutsche Schachzeitung from 1937, p. 101
  13. ^ Association history of the Frankfurt Chess Friends 1921
  14. ↑ Wolfgang Maier: The participation of the SSV in the Chess Olympiads in Helsinki, Amsterdam and Moscow  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , S 9. PDF file, accessed on June 20, 2015 (no longer online)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ssv1921ev.de  
  15. ↑ The Saarland national team at the 1952 Chess Olympiad (English)
  16. ↑ The Saarland national team at the 1954 Chess Olympiad (English)
  17. ↑ Otto Benkner at the Chess Olympiads 1952 to 1956 on OlympBase
  18. ↑ The Saarland national team at the 1956 Chess Olympiad (English)
  19. ↑ Historic Elo rating of Otto Benkner (English)
personal data
SURNAME Benkner, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saarland chess player
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1996
Place of death Saarbrücken