Rudolf Teschner (16 February 1922,

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master and writer. Teschner was seven times Champion of

. In 1948, he won an East-Zones Championship in

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, and later in 1951 took the German Championship (played in

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). Teschner was leading member of the German Chess Olympic team in 1952 and 1956. In 1957 he obtained the title of

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from

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. He was 2–3 in the Zonal tournament in Berg en Dal 1960 and twice 1–4 in Christmas tournaments in

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(1963/1964 and 1964/1965). Teschner played in the 1962

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tournament at Stockholm. FIDE awarded him the complimentary Grandmaster title in 1992, the first in history.

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retrospectively ranked him 40th in the world in May 1968Chessmetrics Player Profile: Rudolf Teschner
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tournament and won the prize for the most beautiful chess game. Teschner worked between 1950 and 1988 as publisher of ''

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'' (''German Chess News'', the World's oldest surviving chess magazine), and wrote many books and articles about chess.

Selected works

* Der kleine Bilguer, Berlin 1953 (with Kurt Richter) * Schachmeisterpartien 1960-1965,

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