Wolfgang Unziker ( German: Wolfgang Unzicker ; June 26, 1925 , Pirmasens - April 20, 2006 , Albufeira ) - German chess player , grandmaster ( 1954 ). Champion of Germany ( 1948 ), East Germany and West Germany ( 1953 ; United Tournament), 5-time champion of West Germany ( 1950 , 1952 , 1959 , 1963 , 1965 - 1-2 place). In 1950-1970, he led the teams of Germany at the World Chess Olympiads , played for her at the European Team Championship. Member of the interzonal tournaments 1952 and 1955 .
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| Country |  Germany |
| Date of Birth | June 26, 1925 |
| Place of Birth | Pirmasens |
| Date of death | April 20, 2006 (aged 80) |
| Place of death | Albufeira |
| Rank | grandmaster ( 1954 ) international master ( 1950 ) |
| Awards and prizes | Silver bay leaf |
June 25, 1961 at the 2nd European Team Championship in Oberhausen, having defeated world champion Mikhail Botvinnik , he becomes a member of the symbolic club Mikhail Chigorin .
Winner of international tournaments in Augsburg ( 1946 ), Heidelberg ( 1949 ), Travemunde (1950), Hastings ( 1950/1951 ), Lucerne (1951/1952), Krems and Maribor ( 1967 ).
Winner of other international competitions: Madrid ( 1957 ) - 2-3rd, Leningrad ( 1960 ; tournament of the Baltic countries) - 2nd, Sochi (1965) - 1-2nd, Santa Monica ( 1966 ) - 4-5 3rd, Ljubljana ( 1969 ) - 3rd, Hastings (1969/1970) - 2nd, Lugano (1970) - 3-4th, Kislovodsk ( 1972 ) and Berne ( 1987 ) - 4-6 places.
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Sporting Achievements
| Year | City | Tournament | + | - | = | Result | A place |
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| 1946 | Augsburg | International tournament | 12 | 0 | four | 14 of 16 | one |
| 1948 | Essen | German Championship | 12 | 0 | 3 | 13½ of 15 | one |
| 1949 | Heidelberg | International tournament | five | 0 | four | 7 out of 9 | one |
| 1950 | Travemunde | International tournament | five | 0 | 6 | 8 from 11 | one |
| Bad pyrmont | Germany Championship | 9 | one | 7 | 12½ of 17 | one | |
| Dubrovnik | IXth Olympiad | 9 | one | four | 11 from 14 | 1 [1] | |
| 1950/1951 | Hastings | International tournament | five | 0 | four | 7 out of 9 | one |
| 1951/1952 | Lucerne | International tournament | five | 0 | 2 | 6 from 7 | one |
| 1952 | Championship of Germany | of | one | ||||
| Saltsjöbaden / Stockholm | 2nd interzonal tournament | 7 | four | 9 | 11½ of 20 | 9 | |
| 1953 | Championship of Germany and East Germany | of | one | ||||
| 1954 | Amsterdam | XI Olympiad | 7 | 2 | 7 | 10½ of 16 | |
| 1955 | Gothenburg | 3rd interzonal tournament | 3 | 6 | eleven | 8½ out of 20 | sixteen |
| 1956 | Moscow | XII Olympiad | 6 | 2 | ten | 11 from 18 | |
| 1957 | Madrid | International tournament | of | 2-3 | |||
| 1958 | Munich | XIII Olympiad | 7 | 2 | 9 | 11½ of 18 | |
| 1959 | Germany Championship | of | one | ||||
| 1960 | Leningrad | International tournament | of | 2 | |||
| Leipzig | XIV Olympiad | 6 | one | eleven | 11½ of 18 | ||
| 1962 | Varna | XVth Olympiad | four | five | 9 | 8½ out of 18 | |
| 1963 | Germany Championship | of | |||||
| 1964 | Tel Aviv | XVIth Olympiad | eleven | 3 | four | 13 of 18 | |
| 1965 | Germany Championship | of | 1-2 | ||||
| Sochi | International tournament | of | 1-2 | ||||
| 1966 | Santa monica | International tournament | of | 4-5 | |||
| 1967 | Krems | International tournament | of | ||||
| 1967 | Maribor | International tournament | of | ||||
| 1968 | Lugano | XVIIIth Olympiad | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 from 17 | |
| 1969 | Ljubljana | International tournament | of | 3 | |||
| 1969/1970 | Hastings | International tournament | of | 2 | |||
| 1970 | Lugano | International tournament | of | 3-4 | |||
| Siegen | XIXth Olympiad | four | one | 13 | 10½ of 18 | ||
| 1972 | Kislovodsk | International tournament | of | 4-6 | |||
| 1974 | Nice | XXIth Olympiad | 6 | 2 | 9 | 10½ of 17 | |
| 1976 | Haifa | XXII Olympiad | 2 | one | ten | 7 from 13 | |
| 1978 | Buenos Aires | XXIII Olympiad | four | one | 7 | 7½ out of 12 | |
| 1982 | Lucerne | XXVth Olympiad | one | 3 | five | 3½ out of 9 | |
| 1987 | Berne | International tournament | of | 4-6 | |||
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Note
- ↑ In the standings
Literature
- Chess Dictionary / Ch. ed. L. Ya. Abramov ; comp. G.M. Geyler . - M .: Physical education and sport , 1964. - S. 360. - 120,000 copies.
- Chess: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. A.E. Karpov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1990. - P. 418. - 624 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-005-3 .
Links
- Wolfgang Unziker's games in the database
- Wolfgang Unziker's personal card on OlimpBase.org