Iris Mai (née Bröder; born 17 September 1962) is a German

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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 ...

(1986) who three times won East Germany Women's Chess Championship (1982, 1984, 1987).

Chess

Iris Bröder began her chess career in the ''BSG Buna Halle'' and, at the age of 15, took part in a East Germany Women's Chess Championship for the first time in 1978 in

Torgelow Torgelow () is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in north-eastern Germany. It is situated on the river Uecker, 12 km south of Ueckermünde, and 41 km northwest of Szczecin, Poland ...

. Petra Feustel won this championship. She won East Germany Girl's Chess Championship in 1977 and 1980. Her trainer was Uwe Bönsch. Their game against men and recreational sports were important. In 1981 she achieved the sports badge in gold. She was also interested in good literature and music. In July 1986 she won the women's tournament in

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, Poland, and thus got her third Woman International Master norm. She then received the

title from

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Individual Championships

After the East Germany Women's Chess Championship in 1978 she was 3rd in 1979 in

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and played (except 1985) in all East Germany Women's Chess Championships until 1989 in

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. She won the East Germany Women's Chess Championships in 1982 in

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, in 1984 in

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and in 1987 in

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. She took second place three times: 1981 in

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and 1983 in

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behind

Annett Wagner-Michel Annett Wagner-Michel (née Michel, born 13 May 1955) is a German chess player who holds the FIDE title Woman International Master (WIM, 1975). She is a two-time East German Women's Chess Championship winner (1981, 1983). Biography In 1972, she ...

and 1986 in

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behind Carola Manger. In 1981 in Halle she finished second behind Brigitte Burchardt in the East Germany Women's Blitz Championship.

Team competition

In 1979 and 1981 she twice won the East Germany Women's Blitz Team Championship with the ''BSG Buna Halle-Neustadt'' chess club. In the first German Women's Chess Bundesliga she played from 1991 to 1998 for the ''USV Halle'' (until 1993 ''VdS Buna Halle''), where she played in the Chess Bundesliga season 1991/92 was also registered as a reserve player in the 1st Bundesliga, but was not used. From 1998 to 2004 she played for ''SSV Rotation Berlin'' (except in the 2000/01 season also in the 1st Women's Chess Bundesliga), since 2004 she has been playing for ''Rotation Pankow'', a spin-off from ''SSV Rotation Berlin'', who played in the 1st Women's Chess Bundesliga from 2004 to 2007 and in the 2008/09 and 2011/12 seasons.The association ''Rotation Pankow'' is not a renaming of the ''SSV Rotation Berlin'', but a spin-off from this in the year 2004. The association ''SSV Rotation Berlin'' continues to exist and also plays at Berlin level with its own teams.

Other

Since the East Germany Women's Chess Championship in 1989 she has been playing under the name Iris Mai.

References

External links

* * * * Werner Wagner: ''Start-Ziel-Sieg von Iris Bröder''. SCHACH 4/1982, p. 160–164 *

Horst Rittner Horst Robert Rittner (16 July 1930 – 14 June 2021) was a German correspondence chess International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, Grandmaster. He was born in Wrocław, Breslau, Weimar Germany, and was the sixth International Correspondence ...

: ''Iris Bröder behielt am Ende die Nerven''. SCHACH 4/1984, p. 157–159
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from TeleSchach * Paul Werner Wagner

Lasker-Gesellschaft, 29. April 2002 {{DEFAULTSORT:Mai, Iris 1962 births Living people Sportspeople from Halle (Saale) Chess Woman International Masters German female chess players