William Edward Martz

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William Edward Martz (born March 21, 1945 in Detroit , † January 17, 1983 in Milwaukee ) was an American chess player .

Life

Martz graduated from Marquette University in 1970 with a law degree and a degree in mathematics. He worked as a chess player and as a manager of the family business, an automobile dealership for Chevrolets in Milwaukee.

Martz, who lived in Wauwatosa near Milwaukee, passed away in 1983, leaving behind his wife Norma, his parents and two brothers.

Chess career

In 1965 he became the United States Youth Champion. He took part in the student Olympics in Harrachov in 1967 , in Ybbs in 1968 and in Mayagüez in 1971 and achieved second place with the team in 1967 and 1971. He was also part of the USA team at the 1972 Chess Olympiad in Skopje .

He was invited to the strong closed USA Championships in 1972 in New York , where he achieved an even result with 6.5 out of 13 games and in 1973 in El Paso , where he scored 3.5 out of 12 games.

In 1975 he was awarded the title of International Master .

By 1977 Martz participated in a number of open tournaments in North America and Western Europe.

At the turn of 1980/1981 he belonged to Vlastimil Hort and Guðmundur Sigurjónsson to the chess seconds of Robert Hübner in the candidate final against Viktor Korchnoi in Merano.

As a player in top chess he appeared again in 1982 in the double-round cloverline tournament in Chicago, where he scored 3 points from 10 games against the grandmasters Huebner, Kortschnoi, Walter Shawn Browne , Roman Dzindzichashvili and Anatoli Lein . Then he was able to share first place with Andrew Soltis in the US Open at Saint Paul in the same year .

Martz has often given simultaneous events in schools and clubs, competing against 25 to 50 opponents.

Hübner, who was a friend of Martz, added a game against him from the Chicago tournament in 1982 to his collection of 25 Annotated Games and commented on it.

A sequence of moves was named after Martz to initiate the four pawn attack of the King's Indian Defense: after 1. d2 – d4 Ng8 – f6 2. c2 – c4 g7 – g6 3. Nb1 – c3 Bf8 – g7 4. e2 – e4 d7 – d6 plays White instead of 5. f2 – f4, which would allow the answer 5.… c7 – c5 6. Ng1 – f3 c5xd4 7. Nf3xd4 Nb8 – c6 8. Bc1 – e3 Nf6 – g4, instead 5. Bf1 – e2 0–0 6. f2-f4 . Martz took as white in his game against former world champion Tigran Petrosjan in the tournament at Lone Pine 1976 after the further moves 6.… c7 – c5 7. Ng1 – f3 c5xd4 8. Nf3xd4 Nb8 – c6 9. Bc1 – e3 Bc8 – d7 10. 0 –0 Nc6xd4 11. Be3xd4 Bd7 – c6 12. Be2 – f3 a7 – a5 13. c4 – c5 d6xc5 his offer to draw.

Martz's last Elo rating was 2405, his highest rating of 2420 he reached in July 1972.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ William Martz 'results at student Olympics on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ William Martz 'results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ given knacks , mirrors 4 /81, 19 January 1981
  4. ^ Robert Byrne : Chess: West Germany's Huebner Wins Cloverline Tourney , New York Times , May 11, 1982
  5. ^ Robert Huebner: 25 Annotated Games , Edition Marco, 1996, ISBN 3-924833-22-2
  6. ↑ By Timothy Taylor in: Beating the King's Indian and Grünfeld , Everyman Chess 2006, ISBN 978-3-932336-10-2
  7. ↑ Elo history at olimpbase.org (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Martz, William Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martz, William E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chess player
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1983
Place of death Milwaukee