Peter Hertel (chess player)

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Peter Hertel (born March 15, 1958 in Cuxhaven ) is a German grandmaster in correspondence chess and a FIDE master in tournament chess .

Correspondence chess

In 1977 Hertel began correspondence chess. In 1983 he became German Junior Champion, in 1984 he took second place in this discipline. In the Bertl von Massow memorial tournament 1988-95 he achieved a result of 8 out of 14 and received the title of International Correspondence Chess Master . He won the 23rd German Correspondence Chess Championship 1991-95.

With the German team he won the 4th European Championship from 1995-98. At the BdF-50 invitation tournament 1995-2002 he took the shared first place. In 1999 he had already fulfilled the grandmaster standard here, he became a grandmaster in correspondence chess. In 2005 he was Olympic champion playing for Germany on board 1, in 2010 he won the silver medal and in 2011 on board 2 again the gold medal.

In the current ICCF world rankings (2014/3) he is 9th with an Elo rating of 2644.

Tournament chess

Inspired by the match of the century between Fischer and Spasski , Hertel began playing chess in 1972. In 1995 he became a FIDE master. In 2001 it met an IM standard in Cuxhaven . His Elo rating is 2182 (as of September 2019), his highest rating of 2335 he reached in July 1994. He plays for Flensburger SK and in Denmark for the Bov Skakklub (including in the 2015/16 and 2017 seasons / 18 in the highest Danish league, the Skakligaen).

Others

Peter Hertel is a post-pensioner.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ICCF world rankings
personal data
SURNAME Hertel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German grandmaster in correspondence chess
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuxhaven