Robert Huebner

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Robert Huebner (1993)
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born November 6, 1948
Porz
title International Master (1969)
Grand Master (1971)
Current  Elo rating 2574 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2640 (July 1981, October 2002)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Robert Huebner (born November 6, 1948 in Porz ) is a German chess grandmaster . The papyrologist , who received his doctorate from the University of Cologne in 1976, is considered the most successful German chess player since Emanuel Lasker . From 1971 to 1988 he was consistently one of the 20 best players in the world, his best placement in the rating list was third place in July 1981.

youth

The 17-year-old Robert Huebner in Porz (1966)

At the age of five, Hübner learned to play chess from his father, the Cologne student councilor Hans Hübner, who taught German, Latin and Greek at the Hölderlin-Gymnasium in Cologne- Mülheim . In 1957 he became a member of the Cologne Tower Chess Association . He played with his club in Minden in 1961 for the German team championship and scored five out of seven points on the 8th board. In 1963 he was German youth champion in Bad Schwalbach with four points ahead. A year later he took first place in an international youth tournament with Hans Ree in Groningen . At the youth world championship in Barcelona in 1965 he reached rank 5 to 7, tied with the East German participant Manfred Schöneberg . At the next youth world championship in 1967 in Jerusalem he was fourth behind Kaplan , Keene and Timman .

International career

Then he finished in the German championship in Kiel 1967 together with Hans Besser the shared first place. In 1968 he won the international tournament in Büsum . In 1969 he became an international master . At the zone tournament in Athens he qualified for the interzonal tournament with 2nd to 3rd place .

Interzonal tournament Palma and first attempt at the world championship

He made his international breakthrough at this interzonal tournament in Palma de Mallorca in 1970 , where he tied for second place behind the eventual world champion Bobby Fischer (the game between the two ended in a draw ) and qualified for the candidate fights. At the same time he fulfilled the grandmaster norm and became the youngest German grandmaster in 1971 .

In the candidates tournament in Seville he was defeated in the quarter-finals by former world champion Tigran Petrosyan . In this competition, Hübner was disturbed by the great noise that prevailed in the tournament hall. Petrosyan, who was hard of hearing, was able to turn off his hearing aid. Hübner could not concentrate, felt disadvantaged and broke off the competition after the seventh game after six draws had previously been played.

Other tournaments (1972–1979)

In 1972 he played in the German national team at the Chess Olympiad in Skopje . Here he achieved the best result of all top boards on board 1 (+12 = 6 −0) and also beat Petrosian.

In 1973 he could not qualify for the Candidates' tournament at the interzonal tournament in Leningrad as fifth. A competition with Kortschnoi in Solingen was lost with 3.5: 4.5. In 1974 and 1975 he was German team champion with the Solingen SG 1868 .

At the 1976 interzonal tournament in Biel , Hübner was in the lead for a long time. In the penultimate round he lost his game against Petrosyan after missing a clear chance of winning. 5th to 7th place was not enough for qualification.

In 1979 he took shared 1st to 4th place at the Grand Masters tournament in Munich . Meanwhile playing for SG Porz again , Hübner was again German team champion in 1979 .

Interzonal tournament Rio and second attempt at the world championship

Robert Huebner 1979 in Rio

Then he made a second attempt for the world championship. At the interzonal tournament in Rio de Janeiro he qualified with rank 1 to 3 (next to Portisch and Petrosjan ) for the candidates tournament . Here he defeated the Hungarian Adorjan in 1980 in Bad Lauterberg with 5.5: 4.5 (+2 = 7 −1) and then in the semifinals in Abano Terme ( Italy ) Portisch with 6.5: 4.5 (+2 = 9 −0). After this victory, Hübner was in third place in the world rankings (behind Karpov and Kortschnoi ).

The candidate final against Kortschnoi, which was scheduled for 16 games in Merano in 1980 , broke off Hübner after ten games. After six games he led 2-1 after victories, but overlooked a knight fork in an even endgame in the seventh and lost an entire tower. Hübner also lost in the eighth game, the last two games ( hanging games ) remained unfinished and were counted for Korchnoi after Huebner's abandonment.

In 1982 Huebner won a double-round tournament with six participants in Chicago: 2.5 points ahead of Walter Browne and three points ahead of Korchnoi. In the Bundesliga, Hübner played for Hamburger SK from 1981 to 1983 , but did not get beyond midfield positions with him, although he achieved outstanding individual results (in the 1981/82 season 9.5 points from 10 games, in the 1982/83 season 9.5 points from 12 games). In 1983 he moved to Solingen SG 1868.

Third attempt at the world championship

In 1983, Hübner played the candidates' tournament for the third time, for which he was eligible as a finalist from 1980. In the quarter-finals he met the former world champion Wassili Smyslow in Velden am Wörther See . After ten games the score was 5: 5 (+1 = 8 −1). All four games ended in extra time. Then the competition was decided by drawing lots (using a roulette ball). Here Hübner had bad luck and dropped out. In 1984, Huebner was nominated for the match between the USSR and the rest of the world , in which he played four draws against Yuri Rasuwajew . In the Bundesliga, Hübner became German team champions with Solingen in 1987 and 1988 , after which he moved to FC Bayern Munich , with whom he was German team champions in 1989 , 1990 , 1991 , 1992 , 1993 and 1995 .

Fourth attempt to the world championship

In 1990 Huebner qualified again for the candidates' tournament at the interzonal tournament in Manila (7th place, eight points out of 13). At the 1990 Chess Olympiad in Novi Sad, he achieved a score of 7 out of 10 on board 1; His win against Ivanchuk caused a stir .

In January 1991 he failed in Sarajevo in the round of 16 of the Candidates Tournament to Jan Timman with 2.5: 4.5.

Game example

Huebner-Kortschnoi
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End position after 19. e6!

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In the following game, Hübner defeated the former World Cup candidate Korchnoi with the white stones in the Interpoli tournament in Tilburg in 1987 in a brilliant tactical short game.

Hübner – Kortschnoi 1-0
Tilburg, September 18, 1987
Spanish Match ( Open Defense ), C82
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. 0–0 Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5 Be6 9. c3 Nc5 10. Bc2 Bg4 11. Re1 Be7 12. Nbd2 Qd7 13. Nf1 Rd8 14. Ne3 Bh5 15. Nf5 0–0 16. Nxe7 + Nxe7 17. b4 Sa4? The first and last mistake, the knight is missing on the kingside , better 17.… Ne4… 18. Bxh7 + !! Kxh7 19.e6! This tactical blow opens all floodgates ... 1-0

National team

At the 2000 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul , he played a major role in winning the silver medal for the German team. Then he retired from the national team. From 1968 to 2000 he took part in 11 chess Olympiads and scored 80.5 points in 122 games. These were the Chess Olympiads in 1968 in Lugano , 1972 in Skopje , 1978 in Buenos Aires , 1982 in Lucerne , 1984 in Thessaloniki , 1990 in Novi Sad , 1992 in Manila , 1994 in Moscow , 1996 in Yerevan , 1998 in Elista and 2000 in Istanbul . He achieved his best individual results in 1972 (15 points from 18 games) and 1990 (7 out of 10), each with a gold medal on the first board.

Hübner also played in the German national team at the European Team Championships in 1965, 1989, 1997, 1999 and 2001, he achieved third place with the team in 1989, 1999 and 2001.

Further tournaments (after 1991)

Karpow and Hübner analyze at the 1997 Dortmund Chess Days
Slobodjan - Hübner, 1999 in Altenkirchen

Hübner accompanied the British Nigel Short as a second both to his candidate fights and to his world championship fight against Garry Kasparov in 1993 in London . In the 1993 interzonal tournament in Biel, he could no longer qualify for the candidate tournament. In the Bundesliga, after the withdrawal of FC Bayern Munich in 1995, Hübner moved to SG Porz, with whom he became German team champion in 1996 , and from 1997 he played for Solingen SG 1868. In 1999, the multiple national player became German champion again , in Altenkirchen (Westerwald) .

In 2001 he played a competition against the computer program Fritz as part of the Dortmund Chess Days , in which all six games ended in a draw. In the same year he moved from Solingen SG 1868 to SC Baden-Oos , with whom he became German team champion in 2006 . In 2007 he ended his membership there. In 2008 he joined SC Remagen, where he played until 2010. In the 2014/15 season he is registered in the 2nd Bundesliga West for Godesberger SK. In Luxembourg he plays for De Sprénger Echternach and was with them in 2009 , 2011 , 2013 , 2015 , 2016 , 2018 and 2019 Luxembourg team champion, in the Swiss National League A he plays for the Lucerne chess club , with which he won the Swiss team championship in 1991 and 2018 ( SMM) won.

Hübner was also successful at the European Club Cup : he was part of the winning team three times, in 1976 and 1990 with the Solingen SG in 1868 and in 1992 with FC Bayern Munich .

Blind simultaneous

Hübner can also show excellent results as a blind simultaneous player. In 1997 he won a blind simul on six boards against the then second division club Kölner SF with 5.5: 0.5. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of SC Kreuzberg on September 25, 1999, the blind simulators on eight boards against the first team of the second division, which had an Elo average of 2300, made a clear decision by Hübner with 6.5: 1, without losing a game, 5 for yourself.

Elo development

author

Hübner's analyzes are considered very in-depth and are provided with exact references. In 1990 he published Fifty-Five Fat Mistakes, with examples from his own gambling practice. In 1996 his book Twenty-five annotated games was published . In the materials on Fischer's games published in 2004 , he dealt with Bobby Fischer's work Meine 60 Memorable Games. In 2008 he published the book Der Weltmeisterschaftskampf Lasker-Steinitz 1894 .

His regular columns in ChessBase Magazine are often written in the form of a Socratic dialogue .

copyright

In the 1990s, Hübner dealt with copyright law on chess games. He took the view that every player had a right to his game, which was his own intellectual creation, and that a game should therefore not be published without the player's consent. He could not assert himself with this view.

To clarify the problem, Hübner set a precedent: After the Bundesliga match Kuczyński - Hübner (February 28, 1993), Hübner refused to hand over his game notation to the competition director. As a result, this game, which ended in a draw “on the board”, was considered lost for Huebner. Finally, on May 21, 1993, the federal tournament court decided that Huebner had to hand over legible transcripts of the game to the referee immediately after each game , and the controversial game was drawn.

In 1994 Wolfgang Unzicker (legal advisor to the German Chess Federation ) and Ernst Bedau (lawyer) drew up an expert opinion according to which there is no copyright in games of chess. Reason: If two (or more) people are working on a work with a common goal , then everyone has joint copyright. In a game of chess, however, there is no common goal, since everyone is playing for victory themselves and trying to disrupt the opponent's efforts. Therefore, the players have no joint copyright in a game of chess.

In April 1994, by submitting a petition to the Petitions Committee of the German Bundestag , Hübner tried to get the legislature to protect chess games with copyright. The application was rejected in the Bundestag session on March 31, 1995.

Doping controls in chess

Hübner rejects doping controls in chess. When they were introduced in international chess after the 2000 Chess Olympiad, he announced his withdrawal from the German national team. He sees the controls as a "measure of the development of bureaucratic power" which represents a "degradation, incapacitation and disenfranchisement of the individual". In contrast to other sports, doping in chess cannot improve a player's skills, only their application. "As an opponent, however, I'm always happy when my playing partner can fully develop his skills, because then I learn more."

Awards

In 1990 the readers of the chess calendar voted Robert Huebner German Player of the Year .

Chinese chess

Hübner is also one of the strongest German Xiangqi players. He took part in the 1993 World Championships in Beijing.

Scientific activity

Hübner received his doctorate in 1976 from the University of Cologne. Together with Bärbel Kramer he edited volume 1 of the Kölner Papyri (Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 3-531-09907-8 ); together with Ursula and Dieter Hagedorn and John C. Shelton Papyri of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek . He also published articles in the journal for papyrology and epigraphy , including on various Oxyrhynchus papyri . He is featured with an article in the Festschrift for Eric Gardner Turner .

Family and private

Hübner's brother Wolfgang (born June 17, 1943; † August 7, 2020) was also a chess player, but he only appeared on a national level. He was the master of the Cologne Chess Association and, together with his brother, was German team champion in 1967 with SG Porz .

Robert Hübner speaks several foreign languages and works as a translator . In 1993 he self-published a German edition of satires by the Finnish author Väinö Nuorteva . He is said to have a special affection for Finland.

Works (selection)

literature

  • Manfred van Fondern, Peter Kleine: Dr. Robert Huebner. 60 of his most beautiful games. (= Small Chess Library. Volume 11/12). 2nd Edition. Beyer, Hollfeld 1982, ISBN 3-921202-075-2 .

swell

  • Theo Schuster : Dr. Robert Huebner - one of the five best chess players in the world! Schach-Echo 1980, issue 9, title page (with photo).
  • Salo Flohr : The Dr. Huebner - Korchnoi. Schach-Echo 1981, No. 1, pp. 1-4 (celebratory premiere by Hübner, games 1 to 4).
  • Salo Flohr: The Dr. Huebner - Korchnoi. Schach-Echo 1981, Issue 2, pp. 20-27 (annotated games 5 to 10 and pictures).
  • Theo Schuster: Mysterious end to the candidate finals in Merano. Schach-Echo 1981, volume 3, pp. 44 and 45.

Web links

Commons : Robert Huebner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ André Schulz : Congratulations, Robert Hübner! In: de.chessbase.com. November 6, 2008, accessed October 17, 2019.
  2. ↑ Johannes Fischer: Robert Hübner is 65 In: de.chessbase.com. November 6, 2013, accessed October 18, 2019.
  3. ↑ Robert Hübner on his 70th birthday: An Interview In: de.chessbase.com. November 6, 2018, accessed October 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ Städtisches HÖLDERLIN-Gymnasium , Cologne-Mülheim (Hrsg.): Jubilee Festschrift Hölderlin 1912 2012 Hundert Jahre Hölderlin. Cologne 2012, p. 195.
  5. ^ German individual youth championships in 1963 in Bad Schwalbach
  6. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002. Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 56.
  7. ^ The youth world championship in Barcelona. Schach-Echo No. 18, September 23, 1965, first cover page.
  8. ↑ Milu Milescu : IX. Youth World Cup in Jerusalem. Schach-Echo No. 18, September 2, 1967, 1st cover page.
  9. ↑ German individual chess championship 1967 in Kiel on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  10. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia 2002, p. 76.
  11. ↑ After 7: 7 the ball decided for Smyslow. Korchnoi won over Portisch 6: 3 . Schach Aktiv 5/1983 (report, pictures).
  12. ↑ Robert Hübner's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  13. ↑ Robert Hübner's results at the European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  14. ↑ 71st German individual chess championship from November 11 to 20, 1999 in Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
  15. ↑ Dortmunder Chess Meeting 2001 from July 12th to 22nd in the Dortmund Opera House
  16. ↑ Robert Hübner's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  17. ↑ See Harald Fietz: Blinder Durchblick. Robert Hübner demonstrated his extra class in blind chess. with a link to the games played against SC Kreuzberg: scrkuppenheim.de . See also Harry Schaack: The other side: Robert Huebner's blind simultaneous performance from the point of view of Thomas Schian, who was one of the grandmaster's opponents at the time. In: KARL . Volume 2, 2005, p. 25.
  18. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
  19. ↑ The report on copyright is available online atrecht.schachbund.de ( PDF )
  20. ↑ Robert Huebner: From the arbitrariness of the doping controls. In: Chessbase.com. December 10, 2008, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  21. ^ Greek document papyri of the Bavarian State Library in Munich, Part 1, BG. Teubner Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-519-04502-8 .
  22. ↑ ZPE 24.1977, pp. 43-53, ZPE 30.1978, pp. 195-207, ZPE 84.1990, pp. 31-43.
  23. ^ Papyri Greek & Egyptian . Egypt Exploration Society, London 1981, ISBN 0-85698-082-X , pp. 157-159.
personal data
SURNAME Huebner, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Porz