Johannes Metger

The Chess Player

Metger learned to play chess during his school days. He made great progress in the 1870s in Leipzig chess club Augustea. He won in 1876 in Leipzig the main tournament of the Middle German Chess Congress. In 1877 he finished second in Cologne in the main tournament of the Rhenish Chess Congress the shared 2nd place. In this tournament, he defeated Zukertort.

In 1884 he founded the Kiel Chess Society, whose chairman he was 34 years long. In 1884, he won the tournament in Rostock the Mecklenburg Chess Federation, as well as in 1886 in Wismar.

According to him an opening variant is named in the Four Knights, by the trains 1 e2 -e4 e7 - e5 2 Sg1 -f3 c6 3 Sb8 - Nb1 - c3 - f6 Ng8 Lf1 4 - b5 - b4 Bf8 5 0-0 0-0 6 d2 -d3 d7 - d6 7 Lc1 - g5 Lb4xc3 8 b2xc3 Qd8 - e7 9 Tf1 - e1 Nc6 -d8 10 d3 -d4 SD8- e6 arises. The idea of ​​black regrouping is to break the bondage of the black knight to f6 by attacking the white bishop g5. Metger this maneuver resulted in 1893 in the tournament practice.

Chess Teacher

Metger gave chess lessons at the Kiel Community College. One of his pupils was Alfred Brinckmann and the grandfather of the chess master Ludwig Rellstab.

In 1886 he published his textbook The chess school.

Private

Metger was the son of a pastor. In Göttingen, he studied philology and mathematics. Then he taught as teacher in Leipzig, later in Hanover and from 1882 in Kiel.

Died in 1926 Metger from a stomach ailment.