Werner Golz

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Werner Golz (born November 8, 1933 in Berlin , † October 26, 1974 in East Berlin ) was a German chess player and journalist.

Life

Werner Golz learned to play chess in 1947 from the textbook on chess by Jean Dufresne . He then taught his two brothers the rules of chess so that they could play with them; in addition, he organized chess tournaments with young people from his street or from school. In order to support his family as the second oldest of four children economically, Werner Golz left school in the 11th grade. His father had not returned as a participant in the Volkssturm .

Werner Golz worked as a publishing clerk, there as a proofreader, commercial clerk and editorial assistant. From 1970 he was a freelance journalist. He had three children. For the German Chess Association of the GDR (DSV) he was the national trainer of the blind and deaf selection for a long time , in the chess section of the BSG Rotation Berlin he trained the youngsters. He dealt intensively with the origins of chess and Japanese chess, which was little known in German-speaking countries at the time . For example, he published his explanations on Japanese Shogi chess over several weeks in the weekly magazine Neue Berliner Illustrierte (NBI) from issue 22/1973 under the heading Small NBI game school . For the spread of Shogi in the GDR, he was honored by the Japanese with a certificate.

A tower as a tombstone for Werner Golz in the Karlshorster cemetery

In the last years of his life Werner Golz was mainly active as a chess writer. From 1970 he headed the section We teach chess - High school of combination in the magazine Schach . Even when he was already marked by a serious illness, he continued to write articles. In November 1974 the series of articles appeared for the last time under his name. After a one-month hiatus, Albin Pötzsch came into his inheritance. In the stands , a daily newspaper of the Free German Trade Union Federation , he regularly commented on chess games and chess problems. He also published chess problems in the puzzle newspaper Troll .

Golz died after a long, serious illness ( stomach cancer ) shortly before the age of 41. He was buried in the Karlshorster and New Friedrichsfelder Friedhof in Berlin-Karlshorst .

successes

National team

In a comparison match between East Berlin and the three sectors of West Berlin in 1953, he represented East Berlin in the youth team on the first board.

From 1957, when an international match between the GDR and Czechoslovakia took place in Prague, until 1970 he was a member of the GDR national team. He played at the Chess Olympiad in Leipzig in 1960 in the team led by Grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann on the second reserve board and in 1964 in Tel Aviv , also under Wolfgang Uhlmann, on the first reserve board.

In 1960 the team consisted of Wolfgang Uhlmann, Wolfgang Pietzsch , Burkhard Malich , Reinhart Fuchs and Werner Golz. The players were used roughly evenly. With a positive balance, the ninth place was taken. However, this was considered a disappointing result, as the West German team was to be found in a higher position in the final ranking. With a sixth place two years earlier in Munich , the GDR, on the other hand, was ahead of the Federal Republic. Werner Golz scored 5.5 points from 11 games, including a victory in the group phase against the multiple Finnish champions Jalos Aatos Fred in the third round, a black draw against the Yugoslavian international champion Milan Vukčević in the seventh round, a victory against the Czechoslovaks Vlastimil Hort in the 3rd final round and another draw against Vukčević in the 8th final round.

At the 1964 Chess Olympiad, despite excellent performances by Wolfgang Uhlmann with 15 out of 18 on the first board and Günther Möhring with 11 out of 13 on the second reserve board, only 15th place was achieved. Werner Golz scores 6 points from nine games in just one defeat against Sweden's Börje Jansson.

At the European team championship in 1970 in Kapfenberg , the GDR national team took third place with him on the seventh board (with ten boards and two substitutes). He managed with his 3.5 points from six games, including a win against Dragoljub Velimirović .

In total, Werner Golz played 63 games for the national team, of which he won 23, drew 28 and lost only twelve.

Club teams

From 1949 he played at the Berlin chess club Lichtenberg 47 , where one of his brothers also played and Werner Golz met his future wife Helga. Then he moved to SC Motor Berlin , then to TSC Oberschöneweide , where he defeated László Szabó , who was one of the strongest non-Soviet chess players at the time, in a team fight against Meteor Budapest . In 1961, with Fritz Baumbach among others , he won the GDR championship with Oberschöneweide , and in 1963 the GDR team championship in blitz chess . Werner Golz was a junior coach at Rotation Berlin , but as a player he moved from Oberschöneweide to BSG AdW Berlin , which belonged to the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and in which the team of TSC Oberschöneweide was absorbed. There he was team captain. From 1980, an annual Werner Golz / Lothar Zinn memorial tournament was held as a blitz tournament at AdW Berlin .

Single successes

In 1958 he won the first East Berlin district championship . Between 1957 and 1969, except for 1958, he took part in all GDR championships , achieved good results, but was never able to achieve the title of GDR champion. In 1957 in Sömmerda he finished third when Burkhard Malich won the title. In the championship of 1959 ( Leipzig ) he was only defeated in the playoff by Wolfgang Pietzsch. In 1964 in Magdeburg he was third again when Wolfgang Uhlmann won the title, in 1965 in Annaberg-Buchholz second behind Lothar Zinn and in 1968 in Weimar third (Wolfgang Uhlmann won again). In 1970 Werner Golz and Dieter Brüntrup shared the win of the Open Berlin City Championship, which he had already won in 1964, at the Kurt Richter memorial tournament.

Rating

After a good performance at the 15th GDR championship in Annaberg-Buchholz, Golz was in December 1965 in 129th place in the subsequently calculated world rankings. His most gewertetes tournament, according to Jeff Sonas was the 14 DDR Championship 1964 in Magdeburg and a historical Elo rating -Leistung of 2612. The official (from FIDE in 1970 introduced) Elo rating for Golz was 2,410 in 1971 and 1972.

Works

  • Paul Keres , Werner Golz: Beauty of Combination. The work of Kurt Richter . Sportverlag, Berlin 1972 (published in the West under the title The high school of chess combination . Falken, Niedernhausen 1988, ISBN 3-8068-0920-8 ). The monograph includes contributions by Kurt Richter from the magazine Schach and was also published in English.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Journal Schach No. 12/1974, obituary of the DSV Presidium
  2. ↑ The GDR national team at the 1960 Chess Olympiad on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ The GDR national team at the 1964 Chess Olympiad on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ The GDR national team at the 1970 European Championship on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ^ Golz portrait by Heinz Machatschek ( Memento from July 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ The championship took place from December 28, 1959 to January 12, 1960 in Leipzig. The decision about the 1959 championship title was not made until early March 1960 during a playoff in Potsdam .
  7. ↑ XIV. German Championship of the DSV in Magdeburg 1964
  8. ↑ Schach magazine, No. 2/1971
  9. ↑ Werner Golz on chessmetrics.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Golz, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1974
Place of death East Berlin