Sebastian Siebrecht

Sebastian Siebrecht (born 16 April 1973 in Herdecke ) is a German chess player.

Life

Since the age of three Sebastian Siebrecht lives in Essen. At the age of eleven he learned at the Helmholtz -Gymnasium in Essen- Ruettenscheid the royal game. In his youth of today 2.02 m wide Siebrecht the NRW basketball youth team belonged to. Siebrecht studied at the Ruhr- University Bochum Jura. He runs an event agency and is of interest first Grand Master.

Achievements

Individual tournaments

The North Rhine -Westphalian Individual Championship he won four times. , 1994 ( in Wuppertal ), 1995, 1997 ( Münster ) and 2000 ( in Ubach- Palenberg ), the North Rhine- Westphalian Single Cup he won in 1995 In 1996 he won the A tournament of the CCU Computerij - Opens in the Netherlands. In July 2001 he won the Vins du Medoc International Open in Naujac -sur -Mer with a perfect score of 9 points from 9 games. In 2004 he won in February, the first Son Servera International in Cala Millor, in June ( shared with Marco Thinius ) the Tower Open in Lippstadt and in September the IM -B tournament Gausdal Classics. In March 2005 he won ( shared with Zhang Pengxiang ) the 21st Chess Festival in Bad Woerishofen. The open Solingen city championship he won in June 2006. In September 2009, he won the Young Masters Open in Lausanne.

Club teams

At twelve, he joined the SV Mülheim -Nord and later moved to Essen ESG 04 From 1989 he played for the SG Bochum 31 and had 1992 for this club its first use in the Chess League. With the SG Bochum 31 he became the 1992 and 1993 German youth team champion. In the chess Bundesliga he now plays for Sportfreunde Katernberg. He is also a passive member of the SC Schalksmuehle - Hülscheid, whom he trained. In Belgium, he played for KSK castling Eupen - Calamine, with whom he at the European Club Cup 2005 in Saint -Vincent (Aosta Valley ) (then as SK castling Eupen Calamine ) participated and 2009 in Ohrid. Since 2011 he plays for the chess friends Wirtz field. In Austria, he plays for the SK Advisory Invest Baden, with whom he was in 2008 to celebrate their first championship in club history and the European Club Cup 2008 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki ) took part in the Netherlands for Homburg Apeldoorn, in Luxembourg for CE Le Cavalier Differdange, in France for the Cannes- Echecs Association, in Spain for the Mallorcan club Servigar Binissalem, Greece Thessaloniki and in Switzerland for the chess club Trubschachen.

Title and rating

In 1993 he was awarded the title of FIDE Master, and in 1996 the International Master, he wears since November 2008 the Grandmaster title after he reached five GM norms: The 8th International Bavarian Championship 2004 in Bad Wiessee, at 21. chess Festival 2005 in Bad Woerishofen, at the 8th individual European Championships 2007 in Dresden, the A- tournament of Kaupthing Opens 2007 Differdange and the 27th Conca della Presolana 2007 Presolana - Bratton. For the Elo hurdle of 2500, an intermediate rating was taken in July 2005, he had after a good showing at the 32th Open Championship of Utrecht ( Elo gain 4 ) and the fifth round of the 6th individual European Championships in Warsaw ( 19) time between. an Elo rating of 2510 his Elo rating is 2479 (as of October 2012), his previous highest was 2490 in April 2008.

Incidents in Siebrechts games

In the German Individual Championship 2011 in Bonn, the FIDE Master Christoph Natsidis was caught later going to have used a computer on a phone in his game against Siebrecht on the toilet. The match was seen as a victory for Siebrecht.

In the season 2012/13 the Schachbundesliga not handed Falko Bindrich from Chess Club Epping one with a toilet visit during his match against Siebrecht entrained phone from the referee. Then the game for Bindrich was considered lost.

Works

  • The strongest league in the world. Analysis - Reports - Statistics. (Written book about the chess Bundesliga season 2006/ 07, together with Bernard Verfürden and Georgios Souleidis ) Deep Chess, Ratingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021220-8
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