Stepanka Mayer

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Stepanka Vokralova 1984 Thessaloniki.jpg
Stepanka Mayer at the 1984 Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki
Association CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (until 1980) Germany (since 1981)
GermanyGermany 
Born July 8, 1949
title International Women's Champion (1970)
Current  Elo rating 2200 (August 2019)
Best Elo rating 2230 (July 1982 to July 1984)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Stepanka Mayer (born July 8, 1949 as Štěpánka Vokřálová ) is a Czech- German chess player . She has been the International Women's Champion (WIM) since 1970 .

Life

From the late 1960s to the late 1970s she was one of the leading Czechoslovak women chess players. She won the Czechoslovak women's chess championships five times (1968, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1978) and in 1975 she took second place.

Stepanka Mayer played for Czechoslovakia and the Federal Republic of Germany in four women's chess Olympiads :

  • In 1969 she took part in the first board of Czechoslovakia in Lublin (+4 = 5 −0) and won bronze and an individual silver medal with the team.
  • In 1972 she played again on the first board of the ČSSR in Skopje (+5 = 5 −1).
  • In 1974 it was placed in Medellín on the second board of the Czechoslovak selection (+6 = 3 −2).
  • In 1984 she competed in Thessaloniki for Germany on the third board (+5 = 5 −1).

In 1978 she emigrated to Sweden and later moved to West Germany . From 1982 she competed in chess tournaments for West Germany. In 1985 she took part in the 1985 Havana Interzonal Tournament . There she took last place. Shortly afterwards she ended her active chess playing career. She played club chess at SK Frankenthal , for which she was used twice in the Bundesliga Southwest .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historické výsledky MČR žen . Archived from the original on July 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ Wojciech Bartelski: OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Stepanka Vokralova . In: www.olimpbase.org .
  3. ↑ 1985 Havana Interzonal Tournament: World Chess Championship (women) . In: www.mark-weeks.com .
  4. ↑ Johannes Eising , Karl-Heinz Podzielny , Gerd Treppner: Schach-Bundesliga 1974-80 , Bamberger Schachverlag, Bamberg 1981, ISBN 3-923113-00-5 , page 106.

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personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Stepanka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vokřálová, Štěpánka (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak-German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1949