Sebastian Siebrecht

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Sebastian Siebrecht, Mainz 2008
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born April 16, 1973
Herdecke
title International Master (1996)
Grand Master (2008)
Current  Elo rating 2417 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2508 (December 2013)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Sebastian Siebrecht (born April 16, 1973 in Herdecke ) is a German chess player and organizer.

Life

Sebastian Siebrecht has lived in Essen since he was three . At the age of eleven he learned the royal game at the Helmholtz grammar school in Essen- Rüttenscheid . In his youth, the now 2.02 m tall Siebrecht belonged to the NRW youth basketball team . Siebrecht studied law at the Ruhr University in Bochum . He runs an event agency and is Essen's first grandmaster .

He also works as a commentator, moderator, speaker, analyst, journalist and is involved in primary school chess projects. He gives simultaneous performances and trained, among other things, the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi and celebrities as a personal coach, as well as coaching the Swiss national team for women at the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul .

Since 2012 he has been offering the chess event “Faszination Schach”, a major nationwide event in shopping centers with chess lessons for children and adults. As of 2020, more than 60,000 children and young people took part in the courses and more than 150,000 participants. Siebrecht is supported by Elisabeth Pähtz , Anna Endress, Josefine Heinemann , Fiona Sieber , Nato Imnadse , Sonja Maria Bluhm , Alisa Frey, Amina Sherif and Mara Jelica , among others .

successes

Individual tournaments

He won the North Rhine-Westphalian individual championship four times: in 1994 (in Wuppertal ), 1995, 1997 (in Münster ) and 2000 (in Übach-Palenberg ), he won the North Rhine-Westphalian individual cup in 1995. In 1996 he won the ZSG's A tournament Computerij-Opens in the Netherlands. In July 2001 he won the Vins du Medoc International Open in Naujac-sur-Mer with a perfect result of 9 points from 9 games. In 2004 he won the 1st Son Servera International in Cala Millor in February, the Tower Open in Lippstadt in June (shared with Marco Thinius ) and the Gausdal Classics IM-B tournament in September . In March 2005 he won (shared with Zhang Pengxiang ) the 21st Chess Festival in Bad Wörishofen . He won the open Solingen city ​​championship in June 2006. In September 2009 he won the Young Masters Open in Lausanne and in 2011 two international chess tournaments on Gran Canaria.

Club teams

At the age of twelve, he joined the SV Mülheim-Nord club and then moved to ESG 04 in Essen (today's home club, which was formed into Schachfreunde Katernberg through a merger with Sportfreuden Katernberg in 1913 ). With short interruptions he played from 1989 for SG Bochum 31 and in 1992 he played for this club in the German Federal Chess League . With SG Bochum 31 he became German youth team champion in 1992 and 1993. In the 2019/20 season Siebrecht plays for the chess friends Essen-Katernberg 04/32 , with whom he played from 2003 to 2015 (at that time as the chess department of the Sportfreunde Katernberg ) in the national chess league. He is also a (non-eligible) member of the Märkischer Springer Halver-Schalksmühle e. V. , who was formerly called SC Schalksmühle-Hülscheid and whom he trains. In Belgium he played for KSK Rochade Eupen-Kelmis , with whom he took part in the European Club Cups in 2005 in Saint-Vincent (Aosta Valley) (then still as SK Rochade Eupen Kelmis ) and in 2009 in Ohrid . Since 2011 he has been playing for Schachfreunde Wirtzfeld , with whom he won the Belgian team championship in the 2012/13 season . In Austria he played from 2006 to 2013 for SK Advisory Invest Baden , with whom he became Austrian team champion in 2008 and 2012 and took part in the European Club Cup 2008 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki) , in the Netherlands from 2002 to 2005 for ZZICT / De Variant Breda , with whom he became Dutch team champion in 2003 , 2004 and 2005 , since then for Homburg Apeldoorn , in Luxembourg for CE Le Cavalier Differdange , in France for the Association Cannes-Echecs , in Spain for the Mallorcan club Servigar Binissalem , in Greece for Thessaloniki and in Switzerland for the Trubschachen chess club .

Title and rating

After he won the title of FIDE Master in 1993 and that of International Master in 1996 , he has held the title of Grand Master since November 2008, having achieved five GM standards: at the 8th International Bavarian Championship in Bad Wiessee in 2004, at the 21st Chess Festival 2005 in Bad Wörishofen, at the 8th Individual European Championship 2007 in Dresden , at the A-tournament of the Kaupthing Open 2007 in Differdingen and at the 27th Conca della Presolana 2007 in Castione della Presolana -Bratto. For the Elo hurdle of 2500 an intermediate rating was taken: In July 2005, after doing well at the 32nd open championship in Utrecht (Elo gain +4) and the fifth round of the 6th individual European championship in Warsaw (+19), he had in the meantime an Elo rating of 2510.

Elo development

Incidents in Sieve Law games

At the German individual championship in Bonn in 2011 , the FIDE master Christoph Natsidis was later caught using a chess program on a smartphone in his game against Siebrecht on the toilet. The game was counted as a victory for Siebrecht.

In the 2012/13 season of the German Chess League, Falko Bindrich from the Eppingen chess club did not hand over a cell phone that he had carried when he visited the toilet during his game against Siebrecht. The game was then counted as lost for Bindrich.

Works

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Siebrecht  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fascination Chess - Tour Plan 2017 . Article by Frank Hoppe on the website of the German Chess Federation from December 29, 2016
  2. ↑ Individual master of the Chess Federation NRW
  3. ↑ a b Sebastian Siebrechts results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ The sensitive grandmaster . Article by Thomas Lelgemann from January 14, 2009 in the WAZ
  5. ↑ GM application ( PDF , English; 1.3 MB)
  6. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
  7. ↑ Feller, Natsidis and the threat to tournament chess . Article by André Schulz from June 22, 2011
  8. ↑ Fraud in the Bundesliga? . Article by André Schulz from October 21, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Siebrecht, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Herdecke