Ursula Wasnetsky


Ursula Wasnetzky, Möhnesee 1978
Association	Germany Germany
Born	9 October 1931 Spremberg
Died	January 21, 2009
Best Elo rating	2090 (January 1989 to January 1998)

Ursula Wasnetsky (born October 9, 1931 in Spremberg ; † January 21, 2009 ) was a German chess player and official.

Chess official

In the early 1970s, she held the first girls' tournaments in Germany.

From 1958 to 1960 she was a women's officer at the Berlin Chess Association , 1972 to 1973 and 1985 to 2006 at the Badischer Chess Association . At the German Chess Youth, she was a girls' advisor from 1972 to 1977 and thus a board member. In 1992 she was elected to the women's commission of the FIDE world chess federation .

In 1989 she received the Golden Badge of Honor from the Badischer Schachverband, an honorary membership in 1997 and, in 2007 in Mannheim, the state tournament director Bernd Breidohr, the letter of honor for her life's work. On December 3, 2008, at the suggestion of Prime Minister Günther Oettinger in Mannheim, she was awarded the German Cross of Merit with ribbon.

Success as a player

The winners of the 8th German Women's National Team Championship 1998, with Ursula Wasnetsky in the back row (third from left) on May 17, 1998 in Braunfels.

Ursula Wasnetsky played for the German women's national team at four chess Olympiads . Her first chess Olympiad was the 1969 Olympics in Lublin , where she played in a team with Hannelore Jörger and Irmgard Karner on the top board, with only one win in ten games, against Gertrude Baumstark , who plays for Romania, in the eleventh round. At the 1972 Chess Olympiad in Skopje she played on the reserve board, in 1974 in Medellín on the second board behind Anni Laakmann and in 1976 in Haifa again on the reserve board. She also played for the German national team at the Nordic Chess Cup 1971 in Großenbrode , where she occupied the women's board with a result of 3 points from 5 games.

Her chess clubs were Ilvesheim , SK Ladenburg since the beginning of the 1970s and SK Chaos Mannheim since 2001 , for which she played in the 2nd women's Bundesliga. In the seasons 2003/04 and 2004/05 she was registered for the 1st Women's Bundesliga, but was not used there. In Chaos Mannheim she was since 2007 an honorary member.

She won the German women's individual championship in 1968 in Fürstenfeldbruck . She was second in 1972 in Burg (Dithmarschen) behind Anni Laakmann and in 1975 she took first place ahead of Juliane Hund at the open German women's championship in Zell am Harmersbach . Between 1965 and 1990 she was female individual champion of the Baden Chess Association ten times.

Ursula Wasnetsky was a member and supervisor of the women from Baden when they won the German women's national team championship in Braunfels in 1998 and 2007 .