Falko Bindrich
Falko Bindrich ( born October 17, 1990 in Zittau ) is a German grandmaster in chess and chess coach.
Life
His father Oswald ( born 1951 ) is a strong chess player with a highest Elo rating of 2294 in 2000, and Falko can accompany many tournaments as a player. Chess learned Falko However, first by his older brother.
2004 supported Bindrich at a big event, the German Cancer League in Leipzig with a simultaneous exhibition and moderation. Simuls he was also at the Children's Foundation Zittau.
Falko Bindrich attended the Christian -Weise -Gymnasium in Zittau. After his graduation in 2009 he undertook for two years as a sports soldier in the sports promotion group in Frankenberg, Saxony. He studied economics, political science and sociology.
His coaches included the Grand Master Jiří Lechtýnský, Zigurds Lanka, Josif Dorfman, Lubomir Ftáčnik and Davit Lobzhanidze and Leonid Rohovoy. In addition Bindrich trained as part of the preparatory training for the Chess Olympiad 2008 in Dresden several times with former world champion Anatoly Karpov.
In the Amateur Chess Organization ( ACO ) Falko Bindrich since 2010 Managing Director, together with the International Champion Tobias Hirneise.
Since September 2013 he is member of the German Chess Foundation. He advocates for the inclusion of chess as a school subject in South Africa.
Achievements
Individual tournaments
In 2001 he was in Willingen ( Upland) German U12 Champion, 2002 the age of eleven in Winterberg German U14 champion and 2005 he won again in Willingen ( Upland), by far the German U16 Championship. At the ceremony of the FM title in October 2003, he was the youngest German who has received ever this item. Since 2006, he bears the title of International Master, since 2007 the title of Grand Master.
Just turned 12 years old he finished the Mountain Open in the Czech Bedřichov with an Elo performance of 2500 over the second place.
In March 2008 he won with 7.5 points from 9 games the 12th Neckar Open in Deizisau. In April 2011 he won the Grand Master group of first- Saturday - series with 6.5 points from 9 games and one point ahead. A few months later, in October 2011, he won, again with lead and undefeated, the A group of Lucerne Opens with 5.5 points from 7 games.
Clubs and GM norms
His first club was the SC Oberland. He then moved on to the higher class gambling Dresdner SC. In the season 2006/ 07 he made his first appearance in the chess Bundesliga. With 11 out of 15 and an ELO performance of 2670 for the SC Remagen, he secured his first Grandmaster norm. For the 2007 /08 season, he has signed on board 5 TSV Bindlach. After the withdrawal of Bindlach from the Bundesliga, he joined the Chess Club Epping. He got the second GM norm at the 2007 European Championship in Dresden, and as standards at the European Championships are counted twice, in September 2007, he received the Grandmaster title after he had previously exceeded the limit of 2500 Elo points. This Bindrich became the youngest Grand Master at that time in Germany at age 16.
Bindrich plays in Zittau, ie close to the Czech Republic, dwelling, also in the Czech first league (Extraliga) for about 40 kilometers from gambling ŠK Zikuda Turnov. In Switzerland he played for SK Triebschen and since the 2011 season for the chess club Lucerne and in the Austrian Bundesliga first since the season 2011/ 12 for the SK Hohenems. In the 2013/14 season he was Austrian champion with the SK Hohenems and scored the highest individual score of the Austrian Bundesliga 1st with 9.5 points from 11 games.
National
In July 2004 he was in Belgrade with the German Youth National Team U18 European Champion. He is now a member of the B- squad of the German national team. At the Chess Olympiad 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk, he played on board 3 of the German team, scoring 4.5 points from 8 games.
Dispute Bundesliga
As part of the team match SC Epping against Sportfreunde Katernberg in the 2012/13 season Falko Bindrich came in the chess Bundesliga match on 21 October 2012 compared Sebastian Siebrecht the request of the referee, handed him his entrained on the toilet cell phone, not after, whereupon his game was considered lost. Thereafter, the Bureau of the German Chess Federation imposed at its meeting on January 19, 2013 against Bindrich a function and suspension for two years. Against this put Bindrich an opposition and announced that, if necessary, to appeal to civilian courts. On 2 May 2013, the lock from the DSB arbitration was abolished. The citation said that the lock had been imposed without legal basis, since Bindrich in the incident only to the sanction of the law Schachbundesliga eV, but not inferior to that of the DSB. DSB - President Herbert Bastian subsequently announced that he wanted to close this legal loophole by appropriate amendments.
Awards
In the years 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009 Bindrich was voted " Player of the Year" by the German Chess Youth. After Melanie Ohme he is now the most frequently chosen player of the year the DSJ. In 2007, he was charged with obtaining the Grandmaster title honorary citizen of Zittau and signed in the Golden Book of the city.