Werner Reichenbach

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Werner Reichenbach, Berlin 2008
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born April 24, 1936
Dresden
Died June 29, 2016
Berlin , Germany
title FIDE Masters (1983)
Best Elo rating 2354 (October 2006)

Werner Reichenbach (born April 24, 1936 in Dresden ; † June 29, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German chess player . He held the titles of FIDE Master and National Master .

Life

The trained typesetter grew up in the GDR , where he played from 1954 to 1956 with East Berliners SG Weißensee 49 in the GDR league , which was the top division of the GDR in the 1954/55 season . In 1953 he took part in a friendship between East and West Berlin teams. In 1954 he finished third in the youth championship of the GDR.

In the late 1950s, until the Berlin Wall was built , Reichenbach often stayed in West Berlin, where he regularly played chess with Kurt Richter in the Kreuzberg Café Wöller . Together with other East Berlin players such as Rudolf Elstner , he played for the Kreuzberg chess club , whose venue was Café Wöller.

After he was imprisoned for insulting Walter Ulbricht and ransomed by the Federal Republic for 40,000 DM, he moved to West Berlin around 1970, where he initially joined the chess friends Neukölln . In 1971 he won the West Berlin Championship and the West Berlin Cup for the first time. Overall, he won the West Berlin championship three times, the cup six times and the West Berlin championship in blitz chess six times . In 1974 he was awarded the title of National Master of the German Chess Federation for his third place at the German Individual Championship .

1975 Reichenbach took part on the fourth board of the German national team at the Nordic Chess Cup in Hindås , where he achieved two wins from five games - with two draws and one defeat. Germany won the tournament.

Reichenbach remained active in changing clubs well into old age. Among other things, he played for SK Zehlendorf , SK Oberkrämer , and most recently - since 2015 - for Eintracht Berlin . He also successfully participated in senior tournaments and took third place in the German senior championship in 2003.

At the beginning of 2016 he fell seriously ill and finally died of the consequences in a Spandau clinic.

reception

Reichenbach was considered a strong chess player who recognized tactical possibilities very quickly, but also had a deep positional understanding. He liked to play unusual openings and defeated Wolfgang Uhlmann with the risky Budapest Gambit . Robert Rabiega described Reichenbach as the Berlin chess legend .

successes

  • Dähne Cup : 1981
  • West Berlin Championship: 1971, 1974, 1976
  • West Berlin Cup: 1971, 1972, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985
  • West Berlin Blitz Chess Championship: 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1984
  • German blitz chess championship for seniors: 2002, 2003
  • German senior rapid chess championship: 2004, 2005, 2006
  • Berlin Seniors Championship: 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the SG Weißensee
  2. ↑ a b c Frank Hoppe: † Werner Reichenbach . schachbund.de, June 30, 2016
  3. ↑ Festschrift "50 Years Schach-Club Kreuzberg eV 1949-99" ( online )
  4. ↑ Werner Reichenbach's results at Nordic Chess Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ^ Dagobert Kohlmeyer: Final report on the 27th Open Berlin Senior Championship . Berlin Chess Association, February 7, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Reichenbach, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden , Germany
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2016
Place of death Berlin , Germany