Georg Meier (chess player)
Georg Meier ( born August 26, 1987 in Trier ) is a German grandmaster in chess.
Life
Georg Meier learned to play chess when he was three years old. The rules of chess taught him his mother. He was trained by Lev Gutman in between and since 2002 by Vladimir Chuchelov.
Achievements
Individual tournaments
In 2003 he was only German youth champion Internet ( U18) and then in Willingen ( Upland) German U16 champion. In August 2006, he won a First Saturday GM Tournament in Budapest. At the European Championships in 2007 in Dresden, he was only half a point behind the winner Vladislav Tkachiev. In July 2007 he won the open Hessian rapid chess championship in Frankfurt- Kalbach. Also at the 10th European Championships 2009 in Budva, he remained half a point behind the tip, reaching 7.5 points from 11 games to 12th place. The German Youth Internet Championship ( U25 ) he won in the same year. In December 2009 he won the tournament Ciudad de Pamplona ( category 13 ) thanks to better fine classification ahead of the tied Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga, Victor Láznička and Kiril Georgiev, in July 2010, the ZMDI Open in Dresden and in December 2010 the 34th Zurich Christmas Open.
National
He's A-team player of the German national team. Three times he took part with the German national team at the Mitropa Cup, a major junior tournament countries. In May 2007, in Szeged Germany could occupy the third place, with Meier 4.5 from 8 contributed a positive overall performance of board 2. At the Chess Olympiad in Dresden in 2008, he took for the team Germany II on top board in part with a score of 7 points from 9 games with an Elo performance of 2779th At the European Championships 2009 in Novi Sad, 2011 in Porto Carras and 2013 in Warsaw played he on the second board of the German team. The European Championship 2011, he won the German team, where he won the decisive game in the last round against Sergei Movsesjan.
Club teams
His first club was nine years old the Trier SK Zewen, then he moved to SC -South Trier, later to SC spell. Since the season 2005/ 06 he played for the club Epping in the chess Bundesliga; for season 2007/ 08 he moved to Werder Bremen, from the 2010/11 season he replaced Fabiano Caruana with the German champion OSG Baden -Baden. For the first time in the Austrian Chess Bundesliga he played in the 2009/10 season on the first board of the SG wood Dohr Semriach. Since the 2010/11 season he played there for the SK Advisory Invest Baden. Meier was also active in the Luxembourg League 1. In France, he plays for Vandoeuvre- Echecs, in Spain Mérida Patrimonio and Belgium for Fontaine.
Title and rating
Meier 's 2007 Grand Master since July. The first GM norm he secured the tournament victory in Budapest, the second he reached with his score of 8 out of 13 in the chess Bundesliga 2006/07. The third GM norm, he scored at the European Championships in Dresden in April 2007. His highest ranking in the world rankings was the 65th place in September 2009, tied with Ernesto Inarkiew and Liviu -Dieter Nisipeanu.