Hugo Süchting

Hugo Süchting ( born October 8, 1874 in Brackrade, Principality of Lübeck, † December 27, 1916 in Valluhn, Mecklenburg -Schwerin ) was a German chess player.

Life

Hugo Süchting came from the village Brackrade in the part of East Holstein, which was part of an exclave to Oldenburg. In nearby Eutin he attended the Agricultural College for two years.

In later years Süchting sold the farm in Brackrade, which he had inherited from his father, and took over on the side of his wife in a Hofgut westmecklenburgischen Valluhn. There he died at the age of only 42 years of a lung ailment that had already affected him a long time.

Chess career

Chess Süchting offered compensation for the occupation as a farmer. As he constantly lived in the country, he lacked opportunity to compete outside major tournaments with strong chess players. In the regional chess life Süchting but was active. So runs the Barmer tournament book Süchting 1905 as a member of the Kiel Chess Society and the Altona chess clubs. In addition, at the same place a chess club in Lienfeld at Eutin (today: chess club from 1875 to Eutin ) mentioned. This game community at that time were only five members, including " H. " and " W. Süchting "both " land man in Brackrade ".

At this time Süchting was already a well-known chess player. At the Congress of the German Chess Federation Congress of the DSB 1879-1914 # 1893 in Kiel Süchting had won the Masters Tournament, which was linked to the achievement of the master craftsman. Thus, he was entitled in consequence to participate in the master tournaments. The following year, he landed at the heavily attended congress in Leipzig with 6.5 points from 17 matches but only on one of the rear seats. He defeated Dawid Janowski and James Mason and achieved, among other draw games against Carl Schlechter and Joseph Henry Blackburne. In Eisenach DSB organized in 1896 no master tournament. In the main tournament Süchting occupied with Ignaz von Popiel the 2 / 3 Place. At the big international tournament in Berlin 1897 Süchting closed under twenty participants from the 15th Place.

With several international tournaments, which Süchting more involved (Ostend 1906, Vienna 1908, Prague 1908, Karlovy Vary 1911), he did not achieve great success. In the great Carlsbad tournament he shared with 11.5 points among 26 participants with Erich Cohn and Grigori lion fish the 14./16. Place.

In addition, several competitions Süchtings be mentioned. So he defeated in 1910 by Curt Bardeleben ( 3-0 = 4).; eventually won Süchting in Hamburg duels against Paul Saladin Leonhardt in 1911 ( 1 ) and Carl Carls 1912 ( 1). As he stretched himself again in Hamburg in 1912 with Leonhardt, this ended balanced.

Süchting 1905 was considered by the Altona chess club " in light of his contributions to the raising of chess in the province of Schleswig -Holstein" with the title " Honorary Member ". He was also an honorary member of Niederelbischen Chess Federation.

Assessment of the skill level

The highest historical Elo rating Süchtings was 2594 in March 1912. Historical calculations of Elo ratings criticized the English chess grandmaster John Nunn in his (1999 first published ) book John Nunn 's Puzzle Book the example of Hugo Süchtings whose actual Elo strength he with a maximum 2100 einschätzte. In a comparative world rankings Süchting would in any case located in July 1912 in 19th place.

Opening variant

According to him, a minor variant is named in the Slav Defense: 1 d2 -d4 d7 -d5 2 c4 c2 - c7 - c6 3 Sg1 -f3 - f6 Ng8 4 Nb1 - c3 Qd8 - b6. The World Championship candidate Gata Kamsky turned this defense in some games with good success.