Horst Rittner

Horst Robert Rittner (* July 16, 1930 in Breslau) is the 6th correspondence chess world champion. He is next to Fritz Baumbach the most successful German correspondence chess players.

The official

By profession, although a banker, was the strong chess player, who is based in Berlin, 1954 full-time general secretary of the German Chess Federation of the GDR. In the early 1960s he was coach at TSC Berlin, then from 1965 to 1991 editor of the magazine bay. In the week post, he edited for many years the chess column in which annotated games and chess compositions alternated. From 1961 to 1991 he was vice president and chairman of the ICCF Qualifications Commission. For his services to him in 1979 the honorary membership in the ICCF was offered.

Correspondence Chess

In the early 1950s he made the acquaintance of the correspondence chess and achieved it remarkably quickly great progress. In 1956, he won the overall German Correspondence Chess Championship, 1961 awarded him the ICCF Grandmaster title for correspondence chess players. Overall, he fulfilled (until 2000) ten times the GM norm. In 1966 he won the very strong field Ragozin Memorial Tournament.

Rittner won the September 1971 to be played from July 1968 6 Correspondence Chess World Championship against former World Champion Vladimir Sagorowski. His success was some media coverage in the GDR. From the Association DTSB him the Friedrich -Ludwig -Jahn- medal was awarded for the title.

It was not possible Rittner to defend his title or retry, though he still participated in numerous other World Cup tournaments.

Tournament chess

Also on board reached Rittner a passable skill level. He participated in the 1950 three times in the GDR Championship. With the club AdW Berlin he played in the big leagues.

Private

Horst Rittner is married and has two sons. His hobby is traveling.