Wolfgang Pietzsch

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Wolfgang Pietzsch (1966)

Wolfgang Walther Pietzsch (born December 21, 1930 in Wittgendorf near Zittau , † December 29, 1996 in Leipzig ) was a German grandmaster in chess . In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of the strongest masters in the GDR .

Life

Wolfgang Pietzsch learned to play chess from his father and joined a Zittau chess section in high school.

After graduating from high school, he studied mathematics and physics in Leipzig. From 1955 to 1961 he worked as a teacher at the Dr. Wilhelm Külz School in Grimma (today St. Augustin High School ), then in Taucha and later as a teacher in vocational and high school education ( BmA ) at the company vocational school of the VEB Galvanotechnik Leipzig and during his final years also as a lecturer at a Leipzig University of Applied Sciences.

Pietzsch was the father of a daughter and a son. His hobbies were filming and photography.

Chess sport

At the age of 18, Pietzsch was first champion of the Soviet zone of occupation in Bad Klosterlausnitz in 1949 and a little later shared first place at the tournament in Großröhrsdorf with Lothar Schmid , the champion of the Soviet zone of occupation from 1947. In 1950 in Sömmerda he won the first GDR championship Second behind Rudolf Elstner . He was also second in 1951 in Schwerin behind Georg Stein .

During his student days he played for Einheit Ost Leipzig , later SC Rotation Leipzig . Pietzsch won the GDR team championship in 1951 , 1952 , 1953 , 1968 and 1970 . After the founding of the GDR, he won the GDR championship three times , namely in 1959 in Leipzig, 1962 in Gera and 1967 in Colditz . Pietzsch represented the GDR at the Chess Olympiads in Helsinki in 1952 , in Munich in 1958 , in Leipzig in 1960 , in Warna in 1962 , in Havana in 1966 and in Lugano in 1968 . In these tournaments he defeated Lodewijk Prins , Heinz Lehmann , Harry Golombek and Larry Evans, among others .

His chess development was favored by the formation of a performance center in Leipzig. In 1961 he became an international master . In 1965 he crowned his career at the Interschach tournament in Leipzig, ahead of Liberson and Kavalek . At the FIDE Congress in Havana in 1966 , he was the second GDR player after Wolfgang Uhlmann to be awarded the title of grandmaster.

At the end of the 1960s, Pietzsch withdrew from competitive sports, not least because the sport of chess was more and more disadvantaged in the GDR in the early 1970s. However, he played for LVB Leipzig until the 1980s . Pietzsch also enjoyed working in broad chess events (simultaneous events) and as a solver and examiner of chess compositions .

In the Elo list , he was represented from the introduction of the Elo numbers in July 1971 until his death with a rating of 2420. His best historical Elo rating before the Elo rating was introduced was 2611, which he reached in May 1966.

Game results
year place competition + = - Result space
1949 Bad Klosterlausnitz 4. Championship of the Soviet Occupation Zone 18 out of 21 1.
1952 Helsinki Xth Chess Olympiad 5 6th 4th 8 out of 15 8th.
1958 Munich XIII. Chess Olympiad 3 3 3 4½ out of 9 9.
1959 Leipzig 10th championship of the GDR
1960 Madrid Zone tournament 8th.
Leipzig XIV. Chess Olympiad 5 9 1 9½ from 15
1962 Gera 12th championship of the GDR 8th 7th 1 11½ from 16 1.
Kecskemét International tournament 7th-8th
Varna XV. Chess Olympiad 3 8th 4th 7 out of 15
1965 Tbilisi International tournament 4th to 5th
Leipzig International tournament 6th 9 0 10½ from 15 1.
1966 Sarajevo International tournament 7th 4th 4th 9 out of 15 5th-6th
Havana XVII. Chess Olympiad 4th 8th 3 8 out of 15 20th
1967 Colditz 16th championship of the GDR 8th 9 0 12½ from 17 1.
1968 Lugano XVIII. Chess Olympiad 4th 5 4th 6½ from 13 20th

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roland Bloi: Grand Master teaches mathematics. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung, Muldentaler Kreiszeitung , October 18, 2010, p. 22.
  2. ↑ Championship of the Soviet Zone of Occupation 1949 on TeleSchess
  3. ↑ 1st GDR Championship, Sömmerda 1950 table and all the games on 365Chess (English)
  4. ↑ 2nd GDR Championship, Schwerin 1951 table and all games on 365Chess (English)
  5. ↑ a b The championship took place from December 28th, 1959 to January 12th, 1960 in Leipzig, but did not bring a decision yet. This only fell at the beginning of March 1960 in Potsdam when he won a playoff against Werner Golz . Pietzsch nevertheless received the title of master from 1959.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Pietzsch's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org
  7. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002. Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 89 (title 1961)
  8. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002. Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 75 (title 1965)
  9. ↑ Elo history at olimpbase.org (English)
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Pietzsch's historical Elo numbers on chessmetrics.com (English)

Works

  • Paul Keres: Theory of Chess Openings, Part 3. Prantsuse avang. Translated from Estonian by Leo Leuthold and edited by Wolfgang Pietzsch. Sports publishing house, Berlin 1958.

literature

  • Peter Bald: Wolfgang Pietzsch - a Leipzig resident at the top of Saxony . In: Saxon chess history - an overview. Publication of the Saxon Chess Association on the 125th anniversary of the founding of the DSB. Self-published, Chemnitz, Leipzig, Dresden 2002.

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personal data
SURNAME Pietzsch, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pietzsch, Wolfgang Walther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German grandmaster in chess
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittgendorf (Zittau)
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1996
Place of death Leipzig