Hans Fahrni

Hans Fahrni ( born October 1, 1874 in Prague, † May 28 1939 in Ostermundigen, Switzerland ) was a Swiss chess master.

In 1892 he shared the Swiss Chess Championship. In 1908, he won a match against Salwe 3-1 with one draw. In Munich, where he had moved, he held in September 1908 a match against Alekhine draw ( 1 -1 = 1) and the following year won a four masters tournament before Tartakower, Alapin and Spielmann. But he achieved his greatest success undoubtedly 1911 in San Remo, when he won, etc. before Lowtzky, Forgacs, Kostic, Przepiórka, Gunsberg, Réti.

As the first Swiss professional chess players Fahrni did produce a number of areas of chess. So he set in 1911 in Munich, a world record in simultaneous game on by playing the same time as the first master more than a hundred games. Also in correspondence chess and as a problem and study composer he worked.

To earn his living, he worked temporarily as a sales representative and played in cafes to small stakes. Carl Carl's referred to him in his memoirs as the largest chess idealists, he had ever met. Ludwig Bachmann described him as a daring attack player whose game was not deep enough, however, to be more successful. Fahrni also wrote chess columns and wrote two chess books: The Endgame in Chess ( Leipzig, 1917 ) and The Alekhine Defence ( Bern, 1922 ).

Illness overshadowed chattels later life. During the First World War he was first admitted to a psychiatric hospital and soon deported out in his home country. After 1917, he spent his remaining years of life at the asylum Waldau near Bern.

His best historical Elo rating was 2557 in December 1906 that he was ranked 32 in the world rankings.