Wolfgang Uhlmann

Wolfgang Uhlmann ( born March 29, 1935 in Dresden ) is a German chess Grandmaster and chess theorist. Uhlmann was the most successful player in the GDR.

Chess players

Wolfgang Uhlmann, whose great chess Royal talent was already early by his victory in the all-German youth championship in 1951, learned first from 1949 to 1952 the profession of a book printer, and then made ​​an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk. He was later promoted by the state and could only devote the sport of chess.

Uhlmann, who won 11 GDR championships (1954, 1955, 1958, 1964, 1968, 1975, 1976, 1981, 1983, 1985 and 1986 ), 1956 received the International Master title in 1959 and awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE.

He took from 1956 to 1990 eleven times for the GDR at Chess Olympiads. It should be noted that the GDR team from 1974 to 1986 due to an order from the German Gymnastics and Sports Association was not allowed to participate in Chess Olympiads. At the Olympic Games in 1964 in Tel Aviv, the team of East Germany won the first place in the final group B. Uhlmann reached 83 percent of the possible points and was awarded the gold medal for the best result on the first board.

Since 1954, the year of its first participation in a zone tournament ( in Marianske Lazne, 13th place ), he intervened in the battle for the world championship. In zone tournament in Wageningen 1957 he finished fifth. In 1960, he should participate in Berg en Dal in the zone tournament. However, to him, the entry into the Netherlands was denied, whereupon the participants boycotted the tournament from the other states of the Warsaw Pact. It was repeated in 1961 in Marianske Lazne. There Uhlmann managed 3rd place the entry into the Interzonal in Stockholm (1962), in which he shared the 9th and 10th place. With a win in the zone tournament in Raach 1969 he again moved up into Interzonal. This time (1970 in Palma de Mallorca), he finished shared 5 - 6th Place, which was equivalent to the qualifications of the candidates matches. In 1971 against the Dane Bent Larsen played quarter-final match went for Uhlmann 3.5-5.5 lost. Despite two further inter-zone tournaments (1973 and 1976 in Leningrad in Manila ) this was his last and only candidates competition.

In the 1960s, Uhlmann had its most successful athletic phase. In 1964 he won jointly with Lev Polugajewski in Sarajevo and with Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov in Havana. In 1965 he won with Borislav Ivkov before the world champion Tigran Petrosian in Zagreb. He won by Boris Spassky, the traditional tournament of Hastings at the turn of 1965/1966. In 1968 he won the Lasker with David Bronstein Memorial in Berlin.

As a senior, he also played very good chess. He participated in several Senior World Championships. At the Chess World Championship for Seniors 1998 Grieskirchen Uhlmann was second, level on points with the winner Vladimir Bagirov. 1996 Bad love cell he took fourth place, as Alexei Suetin was world champion in the senior. In the German Senior Championships he won in 2001 and 2006 respectively the first place.

Uhlmann's best historical Elo rating was 2696th This he achieved in December 1970. In July 1971, he took 17th place his best position on the world rankings.

Wolfgang Uhlmann is a member of the chess section of the USV TU Dresden.

Author

Wolfgang Uhlmann is also a major chess writer. He is one of the world's best experts of the French defense and published since the 1980s. He also writes for numerous chess magazines.

Publications

  • Wolfgang Uhlmann; Gerhard Schmidt: Open lines. Sports Verlag, Berlin 1981.
  • Wolfgang Uhlmann; Gerhard Schmidt: pawn weaknesses. Sports Verlag, Berlin 1984.
  • Wolfgang Uhlmann; Lothar Vogt: Good runner - bad runner. Sports Verlag, Berlin 1988. ISBN 3-328-00237-5.
  • Wolfgang Uhlmann: French defense - played correctly: a lifetime French. Beyer, Hollfeld, 1991 ISBN. 3-88805-271-8.
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