Helmut Pfleger

Helmut Pfleger ( born August 6, 1943 in Teplice ) is a German chess grandmaster.

Life

Helmut Pfleger is the son of the businessman Robert Pfleger.

Most chess interested he is known for his frequent appearances in the West German Radio. Several decades in the WDR broadcasts person taking care of a large part of the chess reporting on German television. Previously hosted in 1971 received his doctorate at the University of Munich physician, internist and psychotherapist in private practice is full time, Telekolleg shipments in the Bavarian television on chemistry, biology or exercise therapy. Chess program he hosted since 1977, often together with Vlastimil Hort. Of particular importance was doing chess Grand Master of Claus Spahn, the live broadcast of the game to broadcast the television Chess price at which participated since 1983 known players such as world chess champion Anatoly Karpov and Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik. In the last issue on 22 August 2005, nurses and Hort were offset by himself and commented for those watching their moves. Also moderated nurse Spahn's chess instruction television series Chess - train to train.

The Grand Master title he won in 1975. Until the mid- 1980s, he was one of the best German chess players, and was, until the 1990s, active players for the 1868 SC Bamberg in the Chess League. Pfleger is multiple German national team. In the years 1968 and 1970 he played at the World Team Championships of the students on the first board for Germany and reached 13 points from 19 games. Between 1964 and 1982 he took part in seven Chess Olympiads, scoring 55 points from 80 games. The best result of his chess career, he estimates his 12.5 points from 15 games at the 1964 Olympics in Tel Aviv- Jaffa, in which consisting only of amateurs German team reached a third place. In addition, he played from 1965 to 1983 in four European Team Championships (12.5 points from 27 games) and in 1985 at the World Team Championship ( 3.5 points from nine games).

In 1981 he led during an operation performed for this purpose chess tournament in Grünwald by medical examinations are up to the players to prove that they are competitive sports at chess.

Pfleger has published numerous chess books with varying co-authors, including a number of works for the world chess championships from 1981 until 1995. Along with Eugen short and Gerd Treppner he gave in 2003, recommended by the German Chess Federation textbook Chess train to train out. In the weekly newspaper Die Zeit he finally written for years a popular weekly column about chess.

His Elo rating is 2477 (as of February 2009). However, he does since 1998, barely in the tournament scene.

Awards

Publications

  • ( with Otto Borik ): World Chess Championship '81. Karpov - Korchnoi. Falken- Verlag, Niedernhausen 1981, ISBN 978-3-8068-0583-3
  • ( with Eugene Short): Chess: TV Worldcup '82. Tournament chess grandmaster. Falken- Verlag, Niedernhausen 1982, ISBN 3-8068-4133-0
  • ( with Eugene Short): Tournament of chess grandmasters '83. Falken- Verlag, Niedernhausen 1983, ISBN 3-8068-0718-3
  • (Ed. ): The best games German chess grandmaster Klaus Darga, Hans -J. Hecht, Robert Hübner, Barbara dog, Erik Lobron, Helmut Pfleger, Lothar Schmid, Wolfgang Unzicker. Falken- Verlag, Niedernhausen 1983, ISBN 3-8068-4121-7
  • ( with Horst Metzing ): Chess: game, sports, science, arts. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-455-08228-9
  • ( with Otto Borik and Michael Kipp -Thomas ): World Chess Championship '85. Karpov - Kasparov. Falken- Verlag, Niedernhausen 1985, ISBN 3-8068-0785- X
  • ( with Ephraim Kishon and Ossi Weiner ): The chess computers: enemy and friend. Nymphenburg, Munich, 1986, ISBN 3-485-01696-9
  • ( with Otto Borik and Michael Kipp -Thomas ): The Chess revenge. Karpov / Kasparov in 1986. Falken- Verlag, low Hausen, 1986, ISBN 3-8068-0831-7
  • ( with Otto Borik and Michael Kipp -Thomas ): World Chess Championship 87th Karpov / Kasparov. Falken- Verlag, low Hausen, 1987, ISBN 3-8068-0910-0
  • ( with Otto Borik ): World Chess Championship 1990 Kasparov - Karpov. . Falken- Verlag, low Hausen, 1991, ISBN 3-8068-1122-9
  • ( with Gerd Treppner ): How does a chess master. Strategic and tactical analysis. Edition Olms, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-283-00317-3
  • ( with Hartmut Metz): World Chess Championship 1993 Kasparov - Short / Karpov - Timman. . Edition Olms, Zurich 1994 ( 2nd edition), ISBN 3-283-00276-2
  • ( with André Behr ): World Chess Championship 1995 Kasparov - Anand.. Edition Olms, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-283-00295-9
  • ( with Eugene Short and Gerd Treppner ): Chess train to train. Bauer diploma, diploma Tower, King diploma. Bassermann, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8068-2705-2

The chess columns in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit published in book form: Chess Cabinet (1987, ISBN 3-8068-0877-5 ); Tactics and wit in Chess (1992, ISBN 3-283-00252-5 ); Hey presto, since the farmer was gone (1998, ISBN 3-283-00354-8 ); Chess Puzzle Book ( 2002, ISBN 3-283-00450-1 ); Chess Knockouts (2006, ISBN 3-283-00456-0 ); Time chess columns (2009, ISBN 978-3-283-01012-6 ); Chess - Pops (2011, ISBN 978-3283010171 ). Regular chess columns appear in the German Medical Journal. He also published two DVDs for ChessBase The most beautiful games in chess history.

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