Michael Pfannkuche (born September 1, 1956) is a German
chess problemist.
Biography
Twice won the individual
World Chess Solving Championship
The World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) is an annual competition in the solving of chess problems (also known as chess puzzles) organized by the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), previously by FIDE via the Permanent Commission of ...
(1988, 1993). Five times won the team World Chess Solving Championships for Germany (1987, 1988, 1993, 2000, 2002). In 1993 he gained the title of
International Solving Grandmaster.
Solving grandmasters
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Since 1970 Pfannkuche composed chess problem
A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by the composer using chess pieces on a chess board, which presents the solver with a particular task. For instance, a position may be given with the instruction that White is to ...
s and managed chess magazine section of the composition. From 1970 to 1988 he participated in the German Chess Bundesliga, representing Münster town team.
In 1982 Pfannkuche graduated from the University of Münster
The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of stud ...
but in 1988 defended his doctor's degree in mathematics. He worked as a systems programmer. He is married, and has five children.
References
External links
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* player profile at chess-db.com
* Problems at the PDB-Server
1956 births
Living people
German chess players
Chess composers
International solving grandmasters
20th-century German mathematicians
University of Münster alumni
21st-century German mathematicians
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