Stefan Kindermann
Emanuel Stefan Kindermann ( born December 28, 1959 in Vienna) is an Austrian chess player.
Stefan Kindermann's father Gottfried -Karl Kindermann 1967 received a professorship and moved with his family to Munich. Stefan Kindermann was there at the age of twelve years a member of the chess club Post SV Munich. In 1978 he won the Dähne Cup and made the decision to become a professional chess player. Among other things, he finished shared first place at the Dortmund Chess days in 1985 and won tournaments in Biel in 1986 and Stary Smokovec 1987. 1988 he was awarded the Grandmaster title. In 1989 he won the Chess Festival Bad Wörishofen before Anthony Miles and Lucas Brunner. His biggest tournament success was the 1st place in the zone tournament in Ptuj 1995. Thereby he was qualified for the FIDE knockout world championship in 1997/98, when he retired in the second round against Gilberto Milos.
He played 1982-1994 at six Chess Olympiads for Germany, scoring 33 points from 56 games.
In 2005 he moved to the Austrian Chess Federation and took for Austria participated in the Chess Olympiads of 2008 and 2012. He is currently (as of January 2014) on the third place of the Austrian Elo ranking. Kindermann is a longtime German Bundesliga player and won with Bayern Munich nine times the German championship. Since 2009 he plays a tight spot for the Munich club MSA. In the Austrian Bundesliga he played for Mercury Graz and SK Sparkasse Jenbach.
He is the author of several chess books, among other things, the Nimzowitsch / Winawer Variation (together with Ulrich Dirr, 2001, ISBN 3-935748-00-0 ), the Leningrad System (2002, ISBN 3-935748-03-5 ) and the Spanish Exchange Variation (2005, ISBN 3-283-00469-2 ). Between 2000 and 2003 he worked for the chess publishing Chessgate. For the Süddeutsche Zeitung, he writes a weekly chess column. In 2010 he published together with Robert K. von Weizsäcker the book The King plan. Strategies for their success (ISBN 978-3-498-07370-1 ). This developed from chess strategies strategy model he conveys in the form of keynote speeches and seminars for executives.
A composed by him endgame study was honored at the anniversary tournament for the 50th birthday of Jan Timman in 2002 with the 1st prize. Kindermann, claiming victory by almost 95 study composers from 23 countries.
Kindermann, who had graduated in 1996 trained as a Master NLP, also works as a coach and trainer. He founded together with Gerald Hertneck, Roman Krulich and Dijana Dengler 2005, Munich Chess Academy and 2007, the Munich Chess Foundation, promotes disadvantaged children.