Thorsten Michael Haub


Thorsten Michael Haub, 2008
Association	Germany Germany
Born	February 15, 1968 wins
title	International Master (1997) Grand Master (2015)
Current Elo rating	2426 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2518 (July 2010)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Thorsten Michael Haub (born February 15, 1968 in Siegen ) is a German chess player . He has held the title of International Master since 1997 and the title of Grand Master since 2015 .

Career

Haub - Juhasz, 2001 in Stuttgart, the game of the last round that was decisive for winning the tournament.

Haub lives in Siegen and played for the Plettenberg chess association in the 2nd Bundesliga West until the 2006/07 season . He was a fixture there for a long time and in July 2006 he won the title of German Blitzmannschaftsmeister together with GM Kamil Mitoń , GM Jurij Drosdowskyj and IM Carsten Lingnau .

In September 2006 he became German Rapid Chess Champion in Ingolstadt . He moved from Plettenberg to SG Bochum 31 . In April 2009 he exceeded a grandmaster norm at the Scandinavian Open in Copenhagen . He fulfilled other GM standards in December 2015 at the 6th Open in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy and in April and May 2015 at the Copenhagen Chess Challenge in Ballerup , so that in 2015 he was awarded the title of Grand Master.

In addition to Germany, Haub also plays in Belgium (earlier and again since 2017 for the chess friends Wirtzfeld , with whom he became champions in 2009 and 2018 , from 2011 to 2017 for Cercle d'Échecs Fontainois ) and Luxembourg (until 2005 for the Nordstad chess club , then until 2017 for Esch Rochade Reine , since 2019 for De Sprénger Echternach ) club chess .

List of his achievements

German rapid chess championship : runner-up in 2000 and 2002, winner in 2006
German Blitzmannschafts Championship: runner-up 1995, winner 2006
First at the international Stuttgart city championship in 2001 before Matthias Duppel
Winner at the Open Bad Ems 2004
Winner of the 4th Open Vandoeuvre 2008

Web links

Commons : Thorsten Michael Haub - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 111
↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
↑ International Stuttgart City Championship, May 24th to 27th 2001 in Ditzingen on TeleSchess

personal data
SURNAME	Haub, Thorsten Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Haub, Thorsten-Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH	15th February 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wins

[1] Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 111

[2] GM application to FIDE (English)

[3] International Stuttgart City Championship, May 24th to 27th 2001 in Ditzingen on TeleSchess