Helmut Pfleger (born August 6, 1943) is a German
chess grandmaster and author. He was one of the most promising chess players in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1977 until 2005, Pfleger hosted a series of chess programs on German public TV, including ''
Chess of the Grandmasters
Chess of the Grandmasters (original title: Schach der Großmeister) is a former German TV programme. The programme was devised, supervised and presented by Claus Spahn.
History
Between 1983 and 2005, the programme was broadcast once a year by ...
'', often together with grandmaster
Vlastimil Hort. By profession, he is a doctor of medicine.
Chess career
In 1960 he won the German Junior Championship, in 1961 was fourth in the
World Junior Chess Championship. In 1965 he tied for 1st with
Wolfgang Unzicker in the
German Chess Championship in
Bad Aibling, but lost an additional match to him there.
He took 1st at
Maputo 1973, tied for 1st–2nd at
Polanica-Zdrój 1971, tied for 1st–2nd at
Montilla 1973, tied for 2nd–3rd at Montilla 1974, tied for 2nd–5th at
Manila 1975, tied for 2nd–3rd at
Havana 1982, was 4th at
Royan 1988.
Pfleger played for Germany in the
Chess Olympiads of 1964, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1980 and 1982. At the
Tel Aviv Olympiad of 1964, he was awarded the gold medal for best performance on fourth board and a bronze medal for his contribution to the team's overall performance.
He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1975.
On the April 2009
FIDE
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list, he has an
Elo rating
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor.
The Elo system was invented as an improved ch ...
of 2477, although he has been virtually inactive since 1990.
Notable games
Helmut Pfleger vs Anatoli Karpov, Hastings 1971, Queen's Indian Defense: Classical, Main Line (E19), ½–½Helmut Pfleger vs Mikhail Tal, Tallinn 1973, Modern Defense: Queen Pawn Fianchetto (B06), ½–½Helmut Pfleger vs Bent Larsen, Manila 1974, English Opening: Great Snake Variation (A10), 1-0John Nunn vs Helmut Pfleger, Plovdiv ETC 1983, Pirc Defense: General (B07), ½–½
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References
External links
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Helmut Pfleger at 365Chess.comRating data for Helmut PflegerChessmetrics Player Profile: Helmut PflegerChessBase.com – Chess News – Happy Birthday Helmut Pfleger!
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1943 births
Living people
People from Teplice
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
German chess players
German chess writers
German people of German Bohemian descent
German male non-fiction writers
Sudeten German people