Frank Lamprecht

Frank Lamprecht ( born June 21, 1968) is a German chess player, writer and coach.

He bears the title of International Master in 1999 and plays in the Oberliga Nord for the Hamburg club King Knight SC 1984, with whom he has played in the 2001/ 02 season in the 1st Chess League and has come there to ten inserts. In King Hamburg Springer he plays since the 1984/85 season.

Lamprecht has mainly done with his books about chess endgames a name, which he wrote together with Hamburg's Bundesliga player and Grandmaster Karsten Müller. Fundamental Chess Endings won the award Book of the Year of the British Chess Federation.

His Elo rating is 2393 (as of October 2013), its highest ever Elo rating was 2419 May to December 2000.

Works

• Karsten Müller and Frank Lamprecht: Secrets of Pawn Endings. Everyman Chess, London, 2000, ISBN 1-85744-255-5. (Reprinted with corrections: Gambit, London 2008, ISBN 1-904600-88-3 )
• Karsten Müller and Frank Lamprecht: Fundamental Chess Endings. Gambit, London 2001, ISBN 1-901983-53-6.
• Karsten Müller and Frank Lamprecht: Basics of Chess Endings. Gambit, London 2003 ( German language edition ), ISBN 1-901983-96- X.