Waltraud Nowarra

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Waltraud Nowarra (born Waltraud Schameitat ; born  November 14, 1940 in Köslin ; †  October 27, 2007 in Dresden ) was a German chess player . In the 1950s and 1960s she was one of the leading players in the GDR .

Life

Waltraud Nowarra grew up in Cottbus after the Second World War and learned to play chess at the age of eleven. After studying in Halle , she married and moved to Dresden, where she lived until the end. In her chess career she played for the clubs SC Chemie Halle , BSG Post Dresden and BSG Lokomotive Dresden . Between 1958 and 1969 Nowarra won the GDR individual championships for women seven times . In 1966 she was victorious at the zone tournament in Varna .

For the national team of the GDR, she played in four women's chess Olympiads between 1963 and 1972 . In 1963 in Split and in 1966 in Oberhausen , she won the bronze medal with the team, in her first Olympics she also achieved the third-best result on the second board. In the German women's Bundesliga she played from 1991 to 1993 for the Post SV Dresden . As a senior, she played in the fourth European Senior Team Championship in Dresden in 2002.

Waltraud Nowarra received the title of International Women's Champion from FIDE in 1966 . Nowarra's last Elo rating was 2187 and her highest rating of 2220 was reached in January 1990.

Nowarra died in Dresden in 2007 and was buried in the local Heath cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German women's championships since 1939 on TeleSchess
  2. ↑ Waltraud Nowarra's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ 4th European Senior MM Dresden 2002 DWZ evaluation of the DSB
  4. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 117

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personal data
SURNAME Nowarra, Waltraud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shame, Waltraud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Koslin
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2007
Place of death Dresden