Karl Robatsch

Karl Robatsch ( born October 14, 1929 in Klagenfurt, † September 19, 2000 ) was an Austrian chess grandmaster and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Robatsch ".

Chess players

Born in Carinthia Robatsch came at the age of 17 years as a student in Graz. Frequently he was in the café Mountain House, the meeting place of the Graz chess player encountered. Due to its already time recognizable talent, he joined the chess club " SK community ", where he quickly became master strength.

His most successful period schachlich had Robatsch the late 1950s and early 1960s. At the Chess Olympiad in Leipzig in 1960 he received the Gold Medal for the best score on first board ( 13.5 points from 16 games). Because of this power on him in 1961 the grandmaster title was awarded. Overall, he took 1954-1994 at eleven Chess Olympiads, scoring, mostly playing on top board, 86 points out of 146 games. In June 1960, he won the Austrian State Championship in preinstall.

Even as a chess theoretician Karl Robatsch made ​​a name. He played a major role in the development of Pirc Ufimtsev and the Modern Defense, which is also known as Robatsch - defense.

His best historical Elo rating was 2653rd This he achieved in April 1961.

Tournament successes in chess

  • Utrecht 1961: 2nd place
  • Hoogovens Beverwijk 1962: 2 / 3 space
  • Zone Tournament Hall 1963: 3 / 4 Place with Ivkov behind Portisch and Larsen

Botanist

In addition to chess was his love of botany, here especially the orchid research. For his outstanding research in this field, he was awarded by the Federal President with the title "Professor ".

During his studies orchids Karl Robatsch has specialized in the taxonomically difficult genus of Stendelwurz Wurzen ( Epipactis ) and described 21 new taxa for science to species rank. About half of them, however, was later found as a subspecies or variety to other species. The following list is a compilation of these new taxa, any later reclassifications and the countries of origin of the plant type:

  • Epipactis aspromontana Bartolo, powde. & Robatsch 1996 → E. leptochila subsp. aspromontana (Italy )
  • Epipactis helleborine bithynica Robatsch 1991 → E. subsp. bithynica (Turkey)
  • Epipactis bugacensis Robatsch 1990 ( Hungary)
  • Epipactis cretica J.Kalopissis & Robatsch 1980 ( Crete)
  • Epipactis danubialis Robatsch & Rydlo 1989 → E. atrorubens subsp. danubialis (Romania )
  • Epipactis fibrinous G.Scappaticci & Robatsch 1995 → E. albensis var fibrinous (France)
  • Epipactis guegelii Robatsch 1997 ( Romania)
  • Epipactis halacsyi Robatsch 1990 ( Greece)
  • Epipactis helleborine leutei Robatsch 1989 → E. subsp. leutei ( Austria )
  • Epipactis mecsekensis A.Molnár & Robatsch 1997 → E. nordeniorum subsp. mecsekensis (Hungary )
  • Epipactis nauosaensis Robatsch 1989 → E. leptochila subsp. nauosaensis (Greece )
  • Epipactis nordeniorum Robatsch 1991 ( Austria )
  • Epipactis olympica Robatsch 1990 ( Greece)
  • Epipactis provincialis A.Aubenas & Robatsch 1996 ( France)
  • Epipactis helleborine E. renzii Robatsch 1988 → var renzii (Denmark)
  • Epipactis rhodanensis Gevaudan & Robatsch 1994 → E. bugacensis subsp. rhodanensis (France)
  • Epipactis schubertiorum Bartolo, powde. & Robatsch 1997 → E. helleborine subsp. schubertiorum (Italy )
  • Epipactis subclausa Robatsch 1988 → E. atrorubens subsp. subclausa (Greece )
  • Epipactis tallosii A.MOLNÁR & Robatsch 1997 ( Hungary)
  • Epipactis voethii Robatsch 1993 ( Austria )
  • Sauroglossum odoratum Robatsch 1994 ( Brazil)

Karl Robatsch died from cancer.

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