Reinhard Cherubim

Reinhard Cherubim (born May 9, 1906 in Stettin ; † April 19, 1980 in Aachen ) was a German chess player , chess journalist, chess official and specialist in rating systems .

Life

Cherubim studied mathematics in Göttingen and did his doctorate on the subject of the method of effective wavelengths and their application to the open star cluster M 34 . He was a lieutenant in World War II . From 1948 to 1972 he taught at the boys' high school in Wattenscheid , the Märkische Schule . There he also led the school chess group. He integrated the youth players of the school chess group into the youth teams of SV Wattenscheid .

Chess activities

Cherubim took part in around 50 international chess tournaments and developed a special bond with the Hastings chess tournament . In Wattenscheid he won, with one interruption, all city championships between 1948 and 1960 as well as the championships of the Bochum chess district.

Cherubim also composed some chess problems .

Reinhard Cherubim

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

Mate in 3 moves

Solution:

1. Nb5! cxd5 2. c6 bxc6 3. b7 matt
or 2.… Bxb6 3. cxb7 matt
1.… Bxb6 2. cxb6 cxb5 3. Lxb7 matt
or 2.… cxd5 3. Sc7 matt

Organizational activities

From 1947 on, cherubim played a major role in the introduction of the Ingo number , a valuation number, in Germany. When the Elo numbers appeared, he developed a conversion formula with which the Elo number can be determined from the Ingo number.

He also took on tasks in the German Chess Federation , in North Rhine-Westphalia (game director and from 1963 youth director) and in the Bochum district. In 1969 he became an international referee for FIDE . He received the golden badge of honor three times for his services.

He published and commented on numerous chess games in various chess magazines .

literature

• Karl-Heinz Glenz: Dr. Reinhard Cherubim died , obituary in Deutsche Schachzeitung , June 1980, p. 194.

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Cherubim in the catalog of the German National Library
• Compositions by Reinhard Cherubim on the PDB server (accessed on January 16, 2014)
• Ingo-Spiegel April 1980 with cherubim obituary by Karl-Heinz Glenz (accessed on September 9, 2019)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Schachbund NRW (ed.) (2011): 1861 - from the West German Chess Federation to the Chess Federation NRW - 2011: 150 years of the Schachbund Nordrhein-Westfalen, oO, p. 27.
2. ↑ Festschrift 60 Years of the Wattenscheid Chess Association 1930 , March 1990.