Robert Hübner
Robert Hübner ( born November 6, 1948 in Porz ) is a German chess grandmaster. In 1976 received his doctorate from the University of Cologne papyrologist is considered the best German chess player since Emanuel Lasker. His best historical Elo rating was 2732 ( April 1973), 1980, he was number three in the world rankings.
Youth
Hübner learned as a five year old to play chess from his father, the Cologne school teacher Hans Hübner. In 1957 he was a member of the railway chess club Cologne tower. With his club he played in 1961 in Minden to the German team championship, scoring on 8 board 5 from 7 in 1963, he was in Bad Schwalbach with 4 points ahead German Youth Champion. A year later, he finished in Groningen in an international youth tournament with Hans Ree the shared first place. In the World Youth Championships in Barcelona in 1965, he reached the same point with the East German participants Manfred Schöneberg Rank 5 to 7 at the next World Youth Championship 1967 in Jerusalem he was behind Kaplan, Keene and Timman fourth.
Hübner was supervised by Paul Troger.
International career
After he finished at the German Championship 1967 in Kiel together with Hans Besser shared first place. In 1968 he won the international tournament in Büsum. In 1969 he became an International Master. In zone tournament in Athens, he qualified with the 2nd to 3rd place for the Interzonal.
Interzonal of Palma and the first attempt at World Cup
His international breakthrough came in this interzonal in 1970 in Palma de Mallorca, where he behind the eventual world champion Bobby Fischer ( ended the match between the two draw ) reached the shared 2nd place and qualified for the candidates fighting. At the same time he met the Grandmaster norm and in 1971 the youngest German grandmaster.
Candidates tournament he lost to Sevilla in the quarter-finals of the former world champion Tigran Petrosian. In this competition Hübner was disturbed by the great noise that prevailed in the tournament hall. Petrosian, who was hard of hearing could park his hearing aid. Huebner could not concentrate, felt disadvantaged and broke after the seventh game of the competition from after six draw had been played before.
Other tournaments (1972-1979)
In 1972 he played in the German national team at the Chess Olympiad in Skopje. Here he scored on board 1, the best result of all top boards ( 12, -0 = 6) and also beat Petrosian.
In 1973, he was unable to qualify for the Candidates Tournament Interzonal in Leningrad in fifth place. A match with Korchnoi in Solingen was lost with 3,5:4,5. 1974 and 1975 in 1868 he was German team champion with the Solingen SG.
Interzonal in Biel in 1976 Huebner was a long time in the lead. On the penultimate lap he lost his game against Petrosian, after he had a clear chance to win omitted ( mate in four moves ). Place 5-7 was not enough to qualify.
In 1979 he finished the grandmaster tournament in Munich the split 1st to 4th place.
Interzonal Rio and second run for the World Cup
Then he took a second attempt for the World Cup. When interzonal tournament in Rio de Janeiro, he qualified with rank 1 to 3 (next Portisch and Petrosian ) for the Candidates Tournament. Here he defeated in 1980 in Bad Lauterberg first the Hungarians Adorjan with 5.5:4.5 ( 2, -1, = 7 ) and then in the semifinals in Abano Terme ( Italy) Portisch with 6,5:4,5 ( 2, -0, = 9). After this victory Hübner was number 3 in the world rankings ( behind Karpov and Korchnoi ).
The accepted to 16 matches Candidates final against Korchnoi, 1980 in Merano, Hübner broke off after ten games. After six games, he led after wins 2-1, but overlooked in the seventh in a balanced endgame a springer fork and lost an entire tower. Hübner was defeated in the eighth game, the last two games ( suspension parts ) remained unfinished and counted according to Huebner's termination for Korchnoi.
1982 won Hübner consider a doppelrundiges tournament with six participants in Chicago: 2.5 points ahead of Walter Browne and three points ahead of Korchnoi.
Third attempt for the World Cup
1983 Huebner played for the third time the candidates tournament, for which he was eligible as a finalist in 1980. In the quarter finals he met in Velden on former world champion Vasily Smyslov. After ten games, it was a draw 5:5 ( 1, -1, = 8). In the extension ended in a draw all four games. After the match by lot ( by means of a roulette ball ) was decided. Here Hübner had bad luck and retired.
Fourth attempt for the World Cup
1990 Huebner qualified Interzonal in Manila ( 7th place, 8 points out of 13) again for the candidates tournament. At the Olympic Games in 1990 in Novi Sad, he scored on board 1 a score of 7 out of 10; Caused a sensation in his win against Ivanchuk.
In January 1991, he failed in Sarajevo in the second round of the Tournament candidates to Jan Timman with 2,5:4,5.
Chess Olympiads ( 1968-2000 )
At the Chess Olympiad in 2000 in Istanbul, he had at winning the silver medal of the German team large proportion. After he retired from the national team. Overall, it took from 1968 to 2000 at 11 Chess Olympiads, scoring 80.5 points in 122 games. These were the Chess Olympiads in 1968 in Lugano, 1972 in Skopje, 1978 in Buenos Aires, 1982 in Lucerne, 1984 in Thessaloniki, 1990 in Novi Sad, 1992 in Manila, in Moscow in 1994, 1996, Yerevan, 1998 in Elista and 2000 in Istanbul. His best individual results he achieved in 1972 (15 points from 18 games) and 1990 (7 of 10 ) each with a gold medal on first board.
Other tournaments ( after 1991 )
Hübner accompanied the British Nigel Short as Sekundant both of whom are fighting, as well as to his world championship match against Garry Kasparov in 1993 in London. In the Biel Interzonal 1993, he could no longer qualify for the candidates tournament itself. 1999, multiple German national team was again champion, in old churches (Westerwald ).
In 2001 he played in the Dortmund Chess Days a match against the computer program Fritz in which all six matches ended in a draw. In the same year he moved from Solingen SG 1868 for OSG Baden -Baden, with whom he was in 2006 German team champion. In 2007 he ended his membership there. In 2008 he joined the SC Remagen. In Luxembourg, he plays for De Sprenger Echternach.
Huebner was also at the European Club Cup success: Twice he was part of the winning team in 1990 with the Solingen SG 1868 and 1992 with FC Bayern Munich.
Blind simultaneous
Excellent results can Hübner show as a blind simultaneous players. In 1997, he won a blind simul on six boards against the then second division club Cologne SF superior with 5,5:0,5. Also the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the SC Kreuzberg carried out on 25 September 1999 Blind simul on eight boards against the first team of the Second Bundesliga, which had an average ELO of 2300, Huebner decided clearly and without loss game with 6.5:1, 5 for themselves.
Author
Huebner analyzes are considered to be very profound and are provided with the exact information source. In 1990 he published the book Fifty-five plump error with examples from his own practice. In 1996 his book Twenty -five annotated games. In the 2004 release materials to Fischer's games, he sat down with Robert James Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games Factory apart. In 2008 he published the book The world championship match Lasker- Steinitz 1894.
His regular columns in ChessBase Magazine are often formulated in the form of a Socratic dialogue.
Copyright
In the 1990s, Hübner explained to the copyright in chess games. He took the view that each player possesses a right to his game, which was an intellectual creation, and a game therefore could not be released without the consent of the player. With this view, he could not prevail.
To clarify the problem, Hübner created a precedent: after the Bundesliga match Kuczynski - Huebner (February 28, 1993) refused Hübner, to give his game score at the competition ladder. It was then that game, the " on board " ended with a draw, counted for Hübner as lost. Finally, the Federal Court ruled the tournament on 21 May 1993 that Huebner had handed over immediately after each game a readable transcript of the match referee, the controversial game was a draw given.
1994 Wolfgang Unzicker created ( legal advisor to the German Chess Federation ) and Ernst Bedau (Lawyer) an opinion, according to which there is no copyright on chess games. Reason: When working on a factory two ( or more ) people with a common goal direction, then everyone will have a joint copyright. In a chess game but a common goal direction is not given, since each even plays to win and tries to disrupt the opponent's efforts. Therefore, the players do not have a joint copyright to a game of chess.
In April 1994, Hübner applied to the Petitions Committee of the German Bundestag, that this chess games protect copyright. The motion was defeated in the parliamentary session of 31 March 1995.
Awards
1990, readers of chess calendar Robert Hübner to the German player of the year.
Chinese Chess
Hübner is also one of the strongest German Xiangqi players. He took in 1993 at the World Cup in Beijing part.
Scientific activity
Huebner received his doctorate at the University of Cologne in 1976. Together with Bärbel Kramer he edited Volume 1 of the Kölner Papyri (West German Verlag, Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 3-531-09907-8 ); together with Ursula and Dieter Hagedorn and John C. Shelton papyri of the Bavarian State Library. He has published articles in the Journal for Papyrology and epigraphy, among other things, various Oxyrhynchus papyri. In honor of Eric Gardner Turner, he is represented with a contribution.
Family and Private
Huebner's brother Wolfgang ( born June 17, 1943) is also a chess player, but he came only at the national level in appearance. He was a master of the Cologne Chess Federation and was with his brother in 1967 German team champion with the SG Porz.
Robert Hübner speaks several languages and is also active as a translator. In 1993 he published self-published a German edition of satires of the Finnish author Väinö Nuorteva. He is said to have a special affection for Finland.
Writings (selection )
- Fifty-five plump error. 1990, ISBN 3-925355-65-0.
- Twenty -five annotated games. Edition Marco. Nickel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-924833-22-2.
- World Champion Alekhine. CD-ROM. ChessBase, Hamburg, 3-932466-12-8.
- World Champion Fischer. CD-ROM. ChessBase, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-935602-71-5.
- Materials to Fischer's games. 2004, ISBN 978-3-88086-181-7.
- The world championship match Lasker- Steinitz 1894 and more duels Lasker. Edition Marco. Nickel, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-924833-56-5.