Arno Nickel (born February 15, 1952) is a German
correspondence chess
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Grandmaster and a well-known German chess publisher.
Biography
Arno lives in
Berlin
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, which is also where his publishing company Edition Marco is located.
Since 1983 he has edited the German ''Schach-Kalender'', as well as the "Schach-Journal" together with Alexander Koblencs, former trainer of Mikhail Tal, from 1991 to 1994. He has published numerous books on chess, usually in German language with the exception of Robert Hübner's "Twenty-five Annotated Games" (1996).
Since 2005 Nickel has been promoting Freestyle Chess (
Advanced chess
Advanced chess is a form of chess in which each human player uses a computer chess engine to explore the possible results of candidate moves. With this computer assistance, it is the human player who controls and decides the game.
Also called cyb ...
, created by GM
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess Elo rating system, ra ...
), a new kind of online chess competition with computer-assisted play where almost anything is allowed, including help from other players.
In a correspondence match lasting many months, he won two games and drew a third against
Hydra, the most powerful chess supercomputer in the world at that time (2005).
Since 2008 Nickel has promoted the ''Infinity Chess'' project, which is located in
Abu Dhabi
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. Amongst other projects Infinity Chess has dedicated itself to Freestyle chess, supporting four play modes: human, engine, centaur (human + engine) and correspondence chess.
On February 16, 2009 Nickel won the ''Simon Webb Memorial'', a category 15 correspondence chess event with 13 grandmasters.
In the ICCF Champions League top group A, season 2007–2009, he achieved the best result on board 1.
In 2011 Nickel won the gold medal with the German Olympic team in the Final of the ''17th ICCF Correspondence Chess Olympiad''. He scored 8/12 and achieved the best result on board 3. 2016 he achieved his second olympic gold at board 4, and 2019 his third gold medal with the best performance at board 2.
With an Elo of 2626 his ranking in the January 2020 ICCF rating list is No. 9 in the World.
Nickel has published various articles on computer chess, correspondence chess and chess history.
2018 he published in German his detailed research on the beginnings of organised chess in Berlin around 1800-1830s, featuring
Julius Mendheim, who is considered the best player in Berlin and probably Germany at his time; "Julius Mendheim. Auf den Spuren eines genialen Schachmeisters des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts".
See also
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Advanced Chess
Advanced chess is a form of chess in which each human player uses a computer chess engine to explore the possible results of candidate moves. With this computer assistance, it is the human player who controls and decides the game.
Also called cyb ...
References
External links
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Arno Nickel comments and analyses two games played against HydraHydra vs Arno Nickel*
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1952 births
Living people
German chess players
Correspondence chess grandmasters