Edith Keller-Herrmann
Edith Keller- Herrmann ( born November 17, 1921 in Dresden as Edith Keller, † 12 May, 2010 in Ingolstadt ) was a German chess master.
Keller's talent was promoted in the 1930s and 1940s by the United German Chess Federation. She attended in 1936 in her hometown, an international tournament and was fascinated by the game Alekhine. She began to train intensively and received in August 1939, the invitation to a training course of youth chess week in Fiirstenwalde in Berlin, attended by Klaus boy and Wolfgang Unzicker took part. The first German women's championship they won in 1942. After the Second World War it was one of the first women to successfully participated in the men's tournaments. In Dortmund 1951 played Keller as the only woman in a strong champion tournament and proved with a win over Grandmaster Nicolas Rossolimo and a draw against Grandmaster Efim Bogolyubov, in 1929 and 1934 against Alexander Alekhine fought out two world championship fights that they could survive in this competition.
Keller won five times the German championship of the ladies and just as often the championship of the GDR. She took the first candidates tournament of the Ladies in Moscow 1949/1950, where she shared space 5-7. In the following years she was able to qualify three times for the candidates (1955, she was a third party), but it has never been the reigning world champion challenger. 1953 and 1958 she participated with respectable results in the Lord of the GDR championships.
For the GDR, she participated in four Chess Olympiads of women. In Emmen in 1957, split in 1963, Oberhausen 1966, she played each on top board, in Lublin 1969 board 2 behind Waltraud Nowarra. The realized Keller- Herrmann total of 35.5 points out of 49 games and won three bronze medals with the team as well as a silver medal in 1957 and bronze in 1963 for their individual results.
1978 FIDE awarded her the title of Grand Master of the women ( WGM ). Your last Elo rating was 2290th
2001 Edith Keller- Herrmann honorary member of Emanuel Lasker Society.
She was the sister of the International Master Rudolf Keller. She was married from about 1951 with the surgeon Dr. Ludwig Herrmann, who took part in 1956 for the GDR at the Chess Olympiad. Edith Keller- Herrmann had a daughter.
Game
Cellar - Bogolyubov, Dortmund 1951
1.d2 -d4 f7 - f5 2.c2 - c4 Ng8 - f6 3.g2 - g3 d7 - d6 4.Sg1 -f3 g7- g6 5.Lf1 - g2 Bf8 - g7 6.0-0 0-0 7.Sb1 - c3 c7 - c6 8.Dd1 -b3 - b6 Qd8 9.Db3xb6 a7xb6 10.b2 -b3 -b2 11.Lc1 Sb8 - a6 Nf6 -e4 12.Sc3 -a4 b6 - b5 - b6 13.c4xb5 c6xb5 14.Sa4 Ta8 - a7 15.Sb6xc8 Tf8xc8 16.Tf1 -c1 Rc8 17.a2 -a3 - a8 Sa6 c5 18.Ta1 -b1 Sc5xb3 19.Tc1 -c2 d6 -d5 20.e2 -e3 e7 - e6 21.Lg2 -f1 g6 g5 - g4 - g5 22.Lf1xb5 23.Sf3 - e1 Bg7 -f8 -a4 24.a3 Bf8 - d6 -d3 Kg8 - f7 25.Se1 26.Lb2 - c3 Sb3 a5 27.Lc3xa5 Ta7xa5 28.Tb1 -c1 Ta8 -d8 29.Sd3 - c5 Ld6xc5 30.d4xc5 Kf7 - f6 31.c5 - c6 b7xc6 32.Tc2xc6 Ne4 - g5 33.Tc6 - c8 d5 -d4 Td8xc8 34.Tc1xc8 35.e3xd4 Sg5 -f3 36.Kg1 - g2 Sf3xd4 37.Tc8 - h8 - g7 Kf6 38.Th8 - e8 Ta5 - a7 - b8 39.Te8 TA7 - c7 - b6 40.Tb8 Tc7 -c1 41.h2 - h3 h7 - h5 - a5 43.a4 42.h3xg4 h5xg4 Tc1 c5 44.Lb5 - d7 - f6 45.a5 - a6 KG7 Kf6 - e5 46.Tb6 -b1 Tc5 - c7 47.Tb1 -a1 - a7 Tc7xd7 48.a6 Td7xa7 ½: ½