Roland Schmaltz

Roland Schmaltz, 2016
Association	Germany
Born	November 15, 1974 Mannheim
title	International Master (2000) Grand Master (2001)
Current  Elo rating	2449 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2559 (April 2002)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Roland Schmaltz (* 15. November 1974 in Mannheim ) is a German Chess - Grandmaster .

Life

Schmaltz was known on chess servers under the pseudonym Hawkeye (falcon's eye) . He is multiple (unofficial) world champion in bullet chess (1 minute per game), the very fast form of blitz chess . According to his own information, he played around 100,000 games on different servers.

In 1993 he won the German youth championship in Münster . In 1995 he started studying business administration at the University of Mannheim , but did not finish it. He then completed an apprenticeship as an IT specialist . He won the Baden Individual Championship three times (1996, 1997 and 1998). In 1998 he became German Blitzmeister , in 2000 he received the title of International Master , and at the end of 2001 the title of Grand Master. In 2004 he wrote The Complete Chess Server Guide . Schmaltz lived in Brisbane , Australia from 2005 to 2012 , where he married in 2009. After a phase as a professional poker player, he has been playing with the second team of OSG Baden-Baden in the 2nd Bundesliga South since 2012 and works as a chess trainer. In the 2015/16 season Schmaltz also plays in the Austrian 1st Bundesliga for LA Kraftanlage Ottakring . Since 2013 he has been the A-trainer of the German Chess Federation. In 2015 Roland Schmaltz won the German rapid chess championship in Leipzig . Since February 1, 2016, he has been managing director of the Baden-Baden Chess Center for one year , succeeding Markus Keller, who had died a few weeks earlier.

societies

In the German 1st Bundesliga Schmaltz played from 1994 to 1996 for SK Zähringen and from 2002 to 2005 for SC Baden-Oos (from 2004 OSC Baden-Baden ). In the Dutch Meesterklasse he played from 2000 to 2004 for Rotterdam , in the 2004/05 season for the champion ZZICT / De Variant Breda and in season 2017/18 for MuConsult Apeldoorn . Schmaltz played in the French Top 16 for Echiquier Niçois in the 2004/05 season , and in the Swiss Bundesliga he played for Schwarz-Weiss Bern in the 2015/16 season .

Publications

• The Complete Chess Server Guide , ISBN 3-88086-180-3 .

Web links

Commons : Roland Schmaltz  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Roland Schmaltz on 365Chess.com (English)
• Roland Schmaltz at the Chess Federation
• Roland 'Hawkeye' Schmaltz - From Bullet World Champion to Poker Pro