Annett Wagner-Michel (née Michel, born 13 May 1955) is a German chess player who holds the

FIDE title FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

Woman International Master (WIM, 1975). She is a two-time East German Women's Chess Championship winner (1981, 1983).

Biography

In 1972, she won the East Germany Girl's Youth Chess Championship in U14 age group. The end of the 1980s Wagner-Michel became one of the leading female chess players in East Germany. She twice won East German Women's Chess Championship (1981, 1983) as well as three times won silver medal in this tournament (1979, 1984, 1985). Also she twice won East Germany Women's Fast Chess Championships: in 1988 and in 1990. In 1990, Wagner-Michel participated in Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournament in

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where ranked 16th place. Wagner-Michel played for East Germany in the

Women's Chess Olympiad The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympia ...

: * In 1990, at second board in the 29th Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+3, =4, -4). In 1975, she was awarded the FIDE

Woman International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

(WIM) title.

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* * * 1955 births Living people Sportspeople from Halle (Saale) German female chess players Chess Woman International Masters Chess Olympiad competitors {{Germany-chess-bio-stub