Otto Borik

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Borik 2007 Dortmund.jpg
Otto Borik, Dortmund 2007
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born September 25, 1947
Prague , Czechoslovakia
title International champion (1982)
Current  Elo rating 2347 (August 2019)
Best Elo rating 2429 (July 2003 to April 2004)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Otakar "Otto" Borik (born September 25, 1947 in Prague ) is a Czech-German chess player and author. Borik has been International Master since 1982 . He has published numerous chess books and has been editor-in-chief of Schach-Magazin 64 since 1979 .

Chess career

Otto Borik, Malta 1980

Borik spent his youth in his Czech homeland, which at the time was experiencing the Prague Spring . He came to the Federal Republic and also took German citizenship. Between 1973 and 1984 he lived in Bochum , where he dominated the chess scene there as a member of SG Bochum 31 . In 1974 he took part in the Dortmund Chess Days.

In 1973 and 1975 Borik became NRW chess master. In 1973 in Brilon there was an unusual case that his first wife Růžena won the women's title at the same time. In 1976 Borik became German master in blitz chess . In the same year he took part in the German championship in Bad Pyrmont and reached 4th place. In 1982 he came in 9th in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler .

Otto Borik - Margeir Pétursson , Chess Olympiad 1980 in Malta (in the background Lobron - Hjartarson )

The high points of his career were his participation in the chess Olympiads 1978 in Buenos Aires (3 out of 7) and 1980 in Malta (5 out of 10 on the third board). He also wrote a tournament book about the Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires.

At the Bochum Grandmaster Tournament in 1981, which Lubomir Kavalek won before Vlastimil Hort - both of whom had also emigrated from Czechoslovakia - Borik came in fifth (with 8 out of 15) and thus achieved his first IM norm . In the same year he met his second norm in a tournament in Denmark. The World Chess Federation then awarded him the title of International Master in 1982.

Analysis Naiditsch and discussion with Vlastimil Hort, Dortmund 2007.

In the following years, Borik became known primarily as an author and also made a name for himself as a chess trainer , for example as a base trainer for the German Chess Federation . He practically gave up his chess career to concentrate on journalism.

He visited the Dortmund Chess Days several times , where he was active in the press center.

Borik remained active in team chess and was used in the German Chess League. There he played from 1980 to 1983 for SG Bochum 31 , from 1983 to 1986 for Solingen SG 1868 , between 1988 and 2000 a total of eight seasons for the Delmenhorst Chess Club and most recently in the 2003/04 season for the Bremen Chess Society of 1877 . He currently plays for the Bremen Chess Society in the Oberliga Nord.

Borik was active in the Czech extra league between 1992 and 2002 and was Czech team champion in 2001 with ŠK DP Holdia Prague . In the same year he took part in the European Club Cup with ŠK DP Holdia Prague .

Book author and journalist

Borik wrote and translated a variety of chess books . These include opening works , the Meyers chess lexicon edited with Joachim Petzold and several books (with Helmut Pfleger as co-author) on the world chess championships between 1981 and 1990, which were published by Falken-Verlag .

His main achievement, however, is the chess magazine 64 he founded in 1979 . Borik has been editor-in-chief of the chess magazine for three decades , which was published every two weeks until the end of 2006 and is now published monthly.

Works (selection)

  • Chess Olympiad: Buenos Aires '78 , Rau, Düsseldorf 1979. ISBN 3-7919-0191-5 .
  • Openings, half-open games , 3rd edition, Beyer Verlag, Hollfeld 1983. ISBN 3-921202-70-1 .
  • (with Vlastimil Hort) Modern Defense , 2nd edition, Beyer Verlag, Hollfeld 1984. ISBN 3-88805-053-7 .
  • Budapest Gambit (2nd edition), Edition Mädler im Rau Verlag, Düsseldorf undated (1988). ISBN 3-7919-0221-0 .
  • Kasparow's chess openings (2nd edition), Edition Olms, Zurich 1992. ISBN 3-283-00319-X .
  • (with Joachim Petzold) Meyer's chess dictionary . Meyers Lexikonverlag, Mannheim 1993. ISBN 3-411-08811-7 .

literature

  • Norbert Fieberg and Hans-Jürgen Fresen: 80 years of the Bochum chess district. Festschrift , December 2007, p. 47f.

Web links

Commons : Otto Borik  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dortmund Chess Days 1974 from May 3rd to 14th in Dortmund's Westfalenpark
  2. ↑ Chess Federation NRW: Individual Master
  3. ^ Fieberg and Fresen, Bochum chess district , pp. 47, 59.
  4. ↑ Otto Borik's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ^ Fieberg and Fresen, Bochum Chess District , p. 53.
  6. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 95.
  7. ↑ Borik: Budapest Gambit , blurb
  8. ↑ Otto Borik's results in the Czech Extraliga on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ Otto Borik's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Borik, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borik, Otakar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-German chess player and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague