Philipp Schlosser

This article deals with the chess player Philipp Schlosser. For the theologian see Philipp Casimir Schlosser .

Philipp Schlosser, 2013
Association	Germany
Born	August 19, 1968 Munich
title	International Master (1989) Grand Master (1992)
Current  Elo rating	2507 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2613 (January 2014)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Philipp Schlosser (born August 19, 1968 in Munich ) is a German grandmaster in chess .

Philipp Schlosser has made a name for himself not only as a player, but also as a chess trainer . He was regional trainer for the Bavarian Chess Youth and regional trainer for the Baden and Württemberg associations. Also for the German Chess Federation , e.g. B. as coach of the women's national team, as well as the French and Croatian chess federations, he was active in individual and team championships as a coach.

Schlosser was (until 2003) the first head of the chess academy of the Karpow Chess Center, which was newly founded in May 1998 (now the Baden-Baden Chess Center).

With the white pieces he likes to play the English opening , with black he prefers to answer with the Sicilian defense .

successes

In 1986 he finished second behind John Nunn at the 1st Open German Individual Championship in Krefeld . In 1989 the world chess federation FIDE awarded him the title of International Master . In 1990 he received the chess car from the German trade press for a combination in a game against István Csom in Budapest and won the Mitropa Cup in Leibnitz with the German national team . At the Mitropa Cup in Brno in 1991 he reached third place with the German team and received an individual gold medal for the best result of all players on the third board. He has been a grandmaster since 1992. In 1993, at the Mitropa Cup in Bad Wörishofen , he played on board two behind Robert Huebner . Germany finished second. In 1995 he finished fifth at the German Individual Championship in Binz , tied with the winner Christopher Lutz . In 2004 he achieved a shared first place at the chess tournament Cappelle-la-Grande . In 2006 he won the open Czech rapid chess championship in Pardubice .

At the time when he was still playing for the Passau chess club , he gave a summer camp at the University of Passau under the title “Why can computers actually play chess?”.

In the German Federal Chess League he was team champion 16 times : with Bayern Munich in 1989 , 1990 , 1991 , 1992 , 1993 and 1995 , with OSG Baden-Baden in 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 and 2015 as well as two lightning team champions : 2003 in St. Ingbert and 2007 in Rinteln . In the Bundesliga he also played for SK Passau , in the 2016/17 season he played for SF Deizisau in the 2nd Bundesliga , in the 2017/18 season in the 1st Bundesliga. Schlosser has been playing in the Oberliga Baden for the third team of OSG Baden-Baden since 2018. He is also in the French (for the Club de Bischwiller , with which he became French team champion in 2015 ), Luxembourg (for Le Cavalier Differdange , with which he became team champion in 2008 ) and Belgian (where he became Belgian team champion with the chess friends Wirtzfeld in 2009 ) Team championship active. In Austria he played for Hypobank Kufstein in the 1990s , then for Innsbrucker SK and now for SK Sparkasse Jenbach , the Austrian team champion in 2010 , 2011 , 2013 , 2015 and 2018 .

Schlosser took part in the European Club Cup seven times and won it in 1992 with Bayern Munich.

Web links

Commons : Philipp Schlosser  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Philipp Schlosser on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Baden-Baden Chess History" in "Chess in Baden-Baden"
2. ^ Open German individual championship 1986 in Krefeld on TeleSchach (Ingo evaluation, games)
3. ↑ Philipp Schlosser at Mitropa-Cups (English)
4. ↑ DEM 1995 on the website of the German Chess Federation
5. ↑ The German team champions in blitz chess since 1984
6. ↑ Philipp Schlosser's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)