Ulf Andersson

Ulf Andersson, 2005
Association	Sweden
Born	June 27, 1951 Västerås , Sweden
title	International Master (1970) Grand Master (1972)
Current  Elo rating	2516 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2655 (January 1997)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Ulf Andersson (born June 27, 1951 in Västerås ) is a Swedish chess player .

Life

Single successes

Ulf Andersson, 1983

In 1969 he became the Swedish individual champion. In 1970 he became international master , in 1972 grand master . He won the traditional Hastings tournament three times in a row : 1978, 1979 and 1980. His greatest successes came in the 1980s, when he made six top ten FIDE world rankings (his highest Elo rating then 2640). His tournament successes include victories in Dortmund in 1978, London in 1980 and 1982, Turin in 1982 and Reggio nell'Emilia in 1986.

In 1984 he played in London on the 1st board of the world selection in the match between the USSR and the rest of the world . He was narrowly defeated by the then world champion Anatoli Karpow (+0 = 3 −1).

In the 1990s, Andersson discovered correspondence chess for himself. In 1994 he took part in a distance tournament for the 50th anniversary of the Norwegian Correspondence Chess Federation and proved to be superior to all correspondence chess experts: with 11.5 / 14 he was the sole winner. The ICCF then awarded him the title of correspondence chess grandmaster. Andersson played a few other successful long-distance tournaments in the 1990s, after which his correspondence chess rating reached the record high of 2805. As of November 15, 2008, he is in second place in the correspondence chess world rankings with an Elo rating of 2737.

In 1996 he set a record in simultaneous chess : he played 310 games within 15 hours, 23 minutes, of which he won 268, drew 40 and lost only two.

Andersson, who has withdrawn from correspondence chess, has been playing blitz and bullet games in the ICC with great passion in recent years . With over 75,000 (as of December 2005) played games, he is considered one of the most enthusiastic grandmasters there.

He is known for his positionally solid style and is considered very strong especially in the endgame . He is also considered a pioneer and expert in hedgehog position .

He was ranked fourth in the FIDE world rankings for the whole of 1983.

Game example

Karpov – Andersson

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

End position after 79 ... Qf3 +

In the following game, Andersson defeated the new world champion Karpov with the black stones in the tournament in Milan in 1975.

Karpov – Andersson 0-1

Milan, August 28, 1975

Sicilian Defense , B44

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nb5 d6 6. c4 Nf6 7. S1c3 a6 8. Sa3 Be7 9. Be2 0–0 10. 0–0 b6 11. Be3 Bb7 12. Rc1 Re8 13.Qb3 Nd7 14.Rfd1 Rc8 15.Rd2 Qc7 16. Qd1 Qb8 17. f3 Ba8 18. Qf1 Sce5 19. Sab1 Nf6 20. Kh1 h6 21. Tdd1 Bf8 22. Nd2 Tcd8 23. Qf2 Sed7 24. a3 d5 25. cxd5 exd5 26. exd5 Bd6 27.Nf1 Rxe3 28.Nxe3 Bxh2 29.Nf1 Bf4 30. Rc2 b5 31. Bd3 Nb6 32.Be4 Nc4 33. a4 Re8 34. axb5 axb5 35. Re2 Be5 36. Qc5 Nd6 37. Sa2 Ndxe4 38. fxe4 Bd6 39. Qc2 Re5 40. g3 De8 41. Tde1 Bb7 42. Kg1 Nh7 43. Nc1 Ng5 44. Nd2 Bb4 45. Kf2 Bxd2 46.Rxd2 Nxe4 + 47.Rxe4 Rxe4 48.Nc2 Bc8 49 50. Ne2 Ta1 51. Rd4 Qd8 52. Qc6 Bd7 53. Qd6 De8 54. Qf4 Qc8 55. b4 Bh3 56. De4 Bf5 57. De3 Qc2 58.g4 Bd7 59. De4 Qb3 60. Qd3 Qb2 61. De4 Ta8 62. Qe3 Ra2 63. d6 Ra8 64. Re4 Bc6 65. Qd4 Qb1 66. Re7 Qh1 67. Qf4 Qg2 + 68. Ke1 Q1 + 69. Kd2 Qd5 + 70. Qd4 Ra2 + 71. Kc3 Qf3 + 72. Re3 Ta3 + 73. Kd2 Ta2 + 74. Ke1 Qh1 + 75. Kf2 Qg2 + 76. Ke1 Qh1 + 77. Kf2 Ta1 78. Rc3 Qg2 + 79. Ke3 Qf3 + 0: 1

Team chess

Ulf Andersson during the eleventh round of the 1984 Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki (center of picture)

National team

Andersson took part with the Swedish national team in 16 Chess Olympiads between 1970 and 2004 , except for the 2004 Chess Olympiad , he always played on the top board. At the 1978 Chess Olympiad he achieved the third-best individual result on the first board. Andersson took part in the European team championships in 1980, 1992, 1997, 2001 and 2005 and achieved the second-best individual result on the first board in 1980 in Skara .

Club chess

Andersson played at SK Rockaden Stockholm until 2007 , with whom he was Swedish team champion in 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 2001 , 2004 and 2005 . Between 2007 and 2014 he played for Alingsås SS and from 2015 to 2018 for the team from Malmö AS , with whom he became champions in 2018 . In the German Federal Chess League, Andersson played from 1998 to 2007 for SG Porz , with whom he became German team champion in 1999 , 2000 and 2004 . He then played for the Düsseldorf club Schachfreunde Gerresheim 86 , and since the 2013/14 season he has played for the Düsseldorf SK 1914/25 , including in the 1st Bundesliga in the 2018/19 season. In France Andersson was team champion with C. M. E. C. Monaco in 2002 , in the British Four Nations Chess League he played for the Hilsmark Kingfisher in the 2005/06 season . At the European Club Cup he took part in 1991/92 with Lyon Olympique Échecs , 1994 to 1997 as well as 2001 and 2002 with SK Rockaden Stockholm and 2006 with the team of Hilsmark Kingfisher.

literature

• Jürgen Kaufeld, Guido Kern : World-class chess strategy . Chessgate, Nettetal 2009, ISBN 978-3-935748-17-9 (contains 80 commented games by Andersson).

Web links

Commons : Ulf Andersson  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Ulf Andersson on 365Chess.com (English)
• Short biography with photos ( Memento from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Ulf Andersson at the World Correspondence Chess Federation ICCF (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 76.
2. ↑ Andersson's third win in Hastings! Schach-Echo 1981, volume 6, pp. 89 and 90 (cross table and games).
3. ↑ Dortmund Chess Days - overview and reports from 1973.
4. ↑ Ulf Andersson's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Ulf Andersson's results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ^ Archives of the Allsvenskan at the Swedish Chess Federation (Swedish)
7. ↑ Ulf Andersson's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)