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Ute Späte
Ute Späte (born 17 November 1961) is a German chess 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 and 1979 in Dernau. At the eighth German championship for girls in 1981 in Bitburg she took 4th place. In Bad Oeynhausen 1984 she became Women's Chess Champion of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1984 she took part in the West Germany Women's Chess Championship, which Barbara Hund 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as White and Black in chess, "White" and "Black", each control sixteen Chess piece, pieces: one king (chess), king, one queen (chess), queen, two rook (chess), rooks, two bishop (chess), bishops, two knight (chess), knights, and eight pawn (chess), pawns, with each type of piece having a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be captured (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. The object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw (chess), draw. The recorded history of chess goes back to at least the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancesto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Aibling
Bad Aibling (; ) is a spa town and former district seat in Bavaria on the river Mangfall, located some southeast of Munich. It features a luxury health resort with a peat pulp bath and mineral spa. History Bad Aibling and its surroundings were settled by Celtic tribes from about 500BC until 15BC. After Roman occupation, it was finally settled by Bavarii tribes in the 5th century AD. In 804, Bad Aibling was mentioned for the first time as "Epininga". In mediaeval times, it was an administrative centre in the lordship of the Counts of Falkenstein. In 1166, it was mentioned in the Codex diplomaticus Falkensteinensis as "Aibilingen". After the obliteration of the Neuburg-Falkenstein dynasty, it became part of the realm of the Wittelsbach family. In 1845, the first treatments with peat pulp were offered by the physician Desiderius Beck. Bad Aibling received the title "Bad" (spa or springs) in 1895. In the year 1933, Bad Aibling officially became a town. After the Second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Female Chess Players
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1961 Births
Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess Bundesliga
The term Chess Bundesliga () normally refers to the premier league of team chess in Germany established in 1980. It is arguably the strongest league of its kind and attracts many high-rated grandmasters. Austria also has a Bundesliga for chess, usually described as the Bundesliga OST (for Österreich). Format Sixteen teams face each other in a single round robin format, each match-day team formed of eight players. The season runs between October and April. Team members may be male or female, but there is also a separate Bundesliga restricted to female players ("Frauen-Schach-Bundesliga"). Each playing weekend normally comprises two matches for each team, played on consecutive days. Matches are arranged so that teams pair up as "travelling partners". Many of the titled professionals are paid an appearance fee and/or travel expenses. Season 2006/07 Prior to the commencement of the season, reigning champions ' started as runaway favourites - their impressive squad was topped by V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anja Hegeler
Anja Hegeler (née Dahlgrün, married Ehrke; 7 November 1965 – 24 December 2022) was a German chess Woman International Master (WIM, 1988), West Germany Women's Chess Championship silver medalist (1987). Chess career Anja twice won the West Germany Girl's Chess Championship. In 1983 in Hanau she was first ahead of Bettina Trabert. In 1984 in Odenthal-Eikamp she won the West Germany Girl's Chess Championship for the second time. In 1984 in Bad Aibling she took part in a West Germany Women's Chess Championship for the first time and finished sixth. At the West Germany Women's Blitz Chess Championship in 1986 in Hameln, she was third behind Gisela Fischdick and Isabel Hund. In 1987 in Bad Lauterberg she took second place in the West Germany Women's Chess Championship. In 1999 in Essen she came third at the West Germany Women's Blitz Chess Championship behind Gisela Fischdick and Jessica Nill. In 2002 in Barnstorf at the West Germany Women's Rapid Chess Championship, she c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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'' for the liqueurs, '' Schierker Feuerstein'' and ''Harzer Grubenlicht'', which are both manufactured and bottled here. Bad Lauterberg was the birthplace (1879) of the Polar explorer Alfred Ritscher. Politics Town council Town Council after the local elections on September 11, 2016: *CDU: 6 seats *Wählergruppe: 5 seats *SPD: 5 seats *BI: 2 seats *Bündnis 90/Die Grünen: 1 seats *NPD: 1 seat Sights About a mile east of the town in the mountains is the viewing point of ''Hohe Tür'' which is by a mountain lake and on the main Weser-Elbe watershed. It is checkpoint 43 in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Hund
Barbara Hund (born 10 October 1959 in Darmstadt, Germany) is a 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 physicist Friedrich Hund and mathematician Ingeborg Seynsche. Biography After graduating from high school in 1978, she studied mathematics in Cologne and graduated in 1987 with a degree in mathematics. She moved to Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany and worked at an insurance company in Basel, Switzerland. In 1989 she married the editor of the Swiss chess magazine ''Die Schachwoche'' Peter Bolt (1949–2016), from whom she was later divorced. She has a daughter Sarah (born 1998) who also plays chess actively. After maternity leave, Barbara began working again in Switzerland. She has both German nationality and Swiss citizenship . Chess career In her youth Hund was one of Germany's greatest young talents in chess. Between 1975 and 1978, she was four times German youth champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Chess Championship
The German Chess Championship has been played since 1861, and determines the national champion. Prior to 1880, three different federations organized chess activities in Germany: the ''Westdeutscher Schachbund'' (WDSB), the ''Norddeutscher Schachbund'' (NDSB) and the ''Mitteldeutscher Schachbund'' (MDSB). Each one organized its own championship. In 1880, the nationwide ''Deutscher Schachbund'' was founded, so afterwards only one German championship was played. Starting from 1933, the Nazi Party took control of all social activities and until 1943 all chess championships were organized by the ''Großdeutscher Schachbund''. After the end of World War II, separate championships were played in the occupied zones. Afterwards, from 1950 to 1989, two national championships were held in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. After the reunification of Germany German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states (Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen), it is also the List of German states by population density, most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of , it is the List of German states by area, fourth-largest German state by size. North Rhine-Westphalia features 30 of the 81 German municipalities with over 100,000 inhabitants, including Cologne (over 1 million), the state capital Düsseldorf (630,000), Dortmund and Essen (about 590,000 inhabitants each) and other cities predominantly located in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, the largest urban area in Germany and the fourth-largest on the European continent. The location of the Rhine-Ruhr at the heart of the European Blue Banana make ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 kilometres southwest) and Hanover (80 km east). History In the village of Bergkirchen, which belongs to Bad Oeynhausen, a wellspring sanctuary existed in pre-Christian (Saxon) times at the local crossing of the Wiehengebirge, which was replaced in the 9th century by a church. Today's church is a subsequent building. On the church and the downhill-situated Widukind spring plates explain this further. A few metres from the church a 13th-century timbered homestead can still be found. In 753 Pepin the Short, according to the Royal Frankish Annals, stopped over ''ad locum qui dicitur Rimiae'', so that Rehme is commonly accepted as the oldest part of town. The origin myth of Bad Oeynhausen relates that in 1745 a local farmer named Sültem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
