Gert Schnider (born 1979) is an

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

n professional multi-talented board-game player. In

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 arran ...

he is an International Master, in Go a 5th Dan, in

shogi , also known as Japanese chess, is a Strategy game, strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as chess, Western chess, chaturanga, xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi. ...

an amateur 5th Dan in Japan and 3rd Dan in Europe, and in

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a grandmaster. He is the MSO world champion of Abalone in 1999 and 2000 and the MSO world champion of Decamentathlon in 2000.Mind Sports Olympiad article on decamentathlon http://www.boardability.com/game.php?id=decamentathlon In 2000, he held the First International Austrian Shogi Championship. Champion of the 2nd International Shogi Forum in 2002. He is living in

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as an officially approved chess teacher "staatlich geprüfter Schachtrainer (A-Trainer)".list of Austrian chess trainers
on styria.chess.at

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Gert Schnider
at the European Go Federation {{DEFAULTSORT:Schnider, Gert 1979 births Living people Austrian chess players Austrian Go players Austrian shogi players Chess FIDE Masters Sportspeople from Graz Place of birth missing (living people)