Ute Späte (born 17 November 1961) is a German
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
player who won
West Germany Women's Chess Championship (1987).
Chess career
Together with the girls from North Rhine-Westphalia, Ute Späte won the German state championships for girls in 1978 in
Schwäbisch Gmünd
Schwäbisch Gmünd (, until 1934: Gmünd; Swabian: ''Gmẽẽd'' or ''Gmend'') is a city in the eastern part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. With a population of around 60,000, the city is the second largest in the Ostalb district a ...
and 1979 in
Dernau
Dernau is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after R ...
.
At the eighth German championship for girls in 1981 in
Bitburg
Bitburg (; french: Bitbourg; lb, Béibreg) is a city in Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate approximately 25 km (16 mi.) northwest of Trier and 50 km (31 mi.) northeast of Luxembourg city. The American Spangdahlem ...
she took 4th place.
In
Bad Oeynhausen
Bad Oeynhausen () is a spa town on the southern edge of the Wiehengebirge in the district of Minden-Lübbecke in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe, East-Westphalia-Lippe region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The closest larger towns are Bielefeld (39 ki ...
1984 she became Women's Chess Champion of
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...
.
In 1984 she took part in the
West Germany Women's Chess Championship, which
Barbara Hund
Barbara Hund (born 10 October 1959 in Darmstadt) is a German-born Swiss chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is the daughter of Juliane and Gerhard Hund and the granddaughter of Friedrich Hund and Ingeborg Seyns ...
won, in
Bad Aibling and finished 10th.
Three years later, Ute Späte won the West Germany Women's Chess Championship in 1987 in
Bad Lauterberg
Bad Lauterberg is a town in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the southern Harz, approx. 15 km southwest of Braunlage, and 20 km southeast of Osterode am Harz.
Bad Lauterberg is known ''inter alia' ...
ahead of
Anja Dahlgrün.
At the end of the 1980s, Späte played for ''SC Kreuzberg'', for whom she also played as a substitute in the season 1987/88 in the
1. Chess Women's Bundesliga was reported, but remained without action. She won the Berlin Women's Chess Championship in 1989.
Berliner Frauen-Einzelmeister (Berlin-West)
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1961 births
Living people
German female chess players
German chess players
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