Stefan Kindermann
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| Surname | Stefan Emanuel Sylvester Kindermann |
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 Austria (1979, since 2004) Germany (1980 to 2004)
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| Born | December 28, 1959 Vienna |
| title |
International Master (1980) Grand Master (1988) |
| Current Elo rating | 2471 (August 2020) |
| Best Elo rating | 2585 (January 1995) |
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Stefan Emanuel Sylvester Kindermann (born December 28, 1959 in Vienna ) is an Austrian chess player .
Life
Stefan Kindermann's father Gottfried-Karl Kindermann received a professorship in 1967 and moved with the family to Munich . Stefan Kindermann became a member of the Post SV Munich chess club at the age of twelve . In 1978 he won the Dähne Cup and made the decision to become a professional chess player. He finished second in the 1981 Grand Masters tournament in Wiesbaden for the Söhnlein Rheingold Cup behind John Nunn . Among other things, he took shared first place at the Dortmund Chess Days in 1985 and won tournaments in Biel in 1986 and in Starý Smokovec in 1987. In 1988 he was awarded the title of Grand Master . In 1989 he won the Bad Wörishofen Chess Festival ahead of Anthony Miles and Lucas Brunner . His greatest tournament success was the 1st place in the zone tournament in Ptuj in 1995. As a result, he was qualified for the FIDE knockout world championship 1997/98 , in which he was eliminated in the second round against Gilberto Milos .
In 2004 Kindermann moved to the Austrian Chess Federation . He is currently (as of September 2014) in third place in the Austrian Elo ranking.
He is the author of several chess books , including the Winawer variant (together with Ulrich Dirr, 2001, ISBN 3-935748-00-0 ), the Leningrad system (2002, ISBN 3-935748-03-5 ) and the Spanish exchange variant (2005, ISBN 3-283-00469-2 ). Between 2000 and 2003 he worked for the chess publisher Chessgate . He writes a weekly chess column for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . In 2010 he published the book Der Königsplan together with Robert K. von Weizsäcker . Strategies for Your Success ( ISBN 978-3-498-07370-1 ). He also conveys this strategy model developed from chess strategies in the form of keynote speeches and seminars for managers.
An endgame study composed by him was awarded first prize at the jubilee tournament for Jan Timman's 50th birthday in 2002. Kindermann prevailed against 95 study composers from 23 countries.
Kindermann, who completed his master's degree in NLP in 1996 , also works as a coach and trainer . He founded with Gerald Hertneck , Roman Krulich and Dijana Dengler 2005, the Munich Chess Academy and in 2007 the Munich Chess Foundation , promotes disadvantaged children.
societies
Kindermann played in the German federal chess league from 1980 to 1995 for FC Bayern Munich , with whom he was German team champion in 1983 , 1985 , 1986 , 1989 , 1990 , 1991 , 1992 , 1993 and 1995 , from 1995 to 1999 for Werder Bremen , from 1999 until 2004 for König Plauen and from 2004 to 2009 for TV Tegernsee . Since 2009 he has been playing for the Munich club MSA Zugzwang 82 , which played in the 2nd Bundesliga East from 2012 to 2016 and has been in the 1st Bundesliga since the 2016/17 season.
In the Austrian Bundesliga (state league until 2003) Kindermann played for SC Inter Salzburg from 1992 to 1996 . In 1996 Kindermann switched to SK Merkur Graz , with whom he became Austrian team champion in 1997 , 1998 , 1999 , 2000 , 2001 and 2002 . In the 2002/03 season he played for the syndicate of SK Merkur Graz with SV Frohnleiten , then until 2007 for SV Frohnleiten (from 2004 SV Holz Dohr ), to which the right to start in the Bundesliga was transferred. Even after 2007, Kindermann was registered in the Bundesliga (until 2009 for SV Holz Dohr, since then for SK Sparkasse Jenbach ), but was not used. In France he played for Echiquier Nanceien in the 2002/03 season .
National team
Kindermann took part in six Chess Olympiads with the German national team between 1982 and 1994 , and represented Austria at the 2008 and 2012 Chess Olympiads . With Germany he also took part in the 1985 World Team Championships and the 1983 and 1989 European Team Championships, and for Austria he played at the 2009 and 2011 European Team Championships . His greatest success with the national team was third place at the European Championship in 1989.
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Koch, Wiesbaden: Dr. John Nunn winner in Wiesbaden 1981 . Schach-Echo 1981, issue 17, title page (cross table) and p. 261/63 (games).
- ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 79.
- ↑ Stefan Kindermann's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Stefan Kindermann's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Stefan Kindermann's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefan Kindermann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Replayable chess games by Stefan Kindermann on 365Chess.com (English)
- Kindermann at the Munich Chess Academy
- Stefan Kindermann in an interview with BeautyZoom
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| SURNAME | Kindermann, Stefan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kindermann, Stefan Emanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |