Ulrich Schulze (chess player)

Ulrich Schulze, 2010
Association	Germany
Born	November 12, 1950 Berlin
title	International champion (1991)
Current  Elo rating	2304 (May 2020)
Best Elo rating	2420 (July 1991 to January 1992)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Ulrich Schulze (born November 12, 1950 in Berlin ) is a German chess player .

Life

Schulze has held the title of International Master since 1992 . He achieved the first IM standard in Bern in 1989, the second again in Bern in 1990 and the third a short time later at a round-robin tournament in Kecskemét , Hungary .

Schulze learned to play chess in the late 1950s from his brother Eberhard (* 1946). His first club was SC Pforzheim , to which he remained loyal until the 1970s. After that he played for the chess club Eppingen , Mühlacker , Ispringen , Untergrombach , Zähringen and Viernheim . He played with SC Viernheim for the first time in the German Federal Chess League in the 1998/99 season . From the 2004/05 season to 2012 he played in the Chess Bundesliga, the 2nd Bundesliga South, the Oberliga and the Baden Association League again for the Eppingen chess club . Since the beginning of the 2012/13 season he has been playing for his closest club, the Bretten chess club .

In 1969 he became the Baden youth champion in Bretten . He won the Baden Cup in 1973 and 1981. He regularly plays in the selection of the Baden Chess Association in international matches.

Schulze is a trained banker (business economist) and worked in the public sector . He lives in Bad Rappenau .

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Ulrich Schulze on chessgames.com (English)