Volker-Michael Anton

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Volker-Michael Anton (born October 31, 1951 ) is a German grandmaster in correspondence chess .

Correspondence chess

Anton learned to play chess at the age of ten, and at 13 he played in a school group. He then joined BSG Motor Magdeburg-Südost . Anton began to play correspondence chess in 1967 when he came across the announcement for the men's district championship in correspondence chess in the newspaper Volksstimme . Anton immediately became vice district champion. He later played in national tournaments in the GDR . In 1980 he won the GDR cup tournament. For second place in the ICCF World Cup, he was awarded the title of International Master in 1983 . In 1987 he became a grandmaster with second place in the anniversary tournament SCO-100 (100 Years of the Scottish Chess Federation). Other significant successes were

  • 1993: 2nd place in the mountain grass memorial (France, 1989–1993)
  • 1994: 1st place in the CAN-70 anniversary tournament (70 years of correspondence chess in Canada, 1991–1994)

At the 10th Olympiad he competed for the GDR and scored 50 percent on board 3. Curiously, this Olympics ended in 1995 (started in 1987), several years after German reunification , when the GDR no longer existed. At the next Olympiad (1992-1999) he played in the all-German team with a score of 9 out of 12 on board 5 and received a gold medal. Also in the 12th Olympiad (1998-2001) he convinced with 9/11 on board 3, with which he also won the gold medal.

  • 2001: 1st place in the Massow Memorial (1996-2001)
  • 2003: 3rd place in the ICCF anniversary tournament of the elite grandmasters (2002-2004)

With a correspondence chess Elo number of 2683 (as of July 2007) he is twelfth in the world rankings.

Since 1981 he has been responsible for the chess corner in the weekend edition of Volksstimme, and in 1981 he published his first of 1,500 chess compositions there .

Close chess

Anton also played close-up chess. He played team fights for the clubs Aufbau Börde and Motor Südost Magdeburg .

Private

Anton has been in a wheelchair since childhood. He is a banker by profession. He lives in the Magdeburg district of Fermersleben .

Works

Volker-Michael Anton and Fritz Baumbach : Gladiators ante portas: Massow Memorial . Magdeburg 2003. ISBN 3-00-012366-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathe Aebl, Royal Game by mail in New Germany on 9 January 1988, p 16
  2. ^ A virus called chess, Volksstimme of April 30, 2020, p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Anton, Volker-Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German correspondence chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1951