Another 11 nights before Christmas!
The quiet time is also the time for chess. As long as I can remember, I have enjoyed playing chess. First, I played with my father, who also taught me to play. After starting grammar school, the school team was my first step towards a chess club (Verein Augsburger Schachjugend – VASJ). In this club, we played in the then highest German chess league, the Bavarian league, with a surprisingly young team. Later on, some fusions took place and the SG Augsburg remained as a collecting basin for many traditional Augsburg clubs: Anderssen-Pfersee, Königsspringer, Capablanca, SK Oberhausen, 1873 Augsburg …
Until I graduated from high school, chess continued to play an important role in my life. Today, I am still a member of two chess clubs, the chess club Unterhaching and the Tarrasch-1945 München. I play in the club championships of both. And then in the spring, I also play for the SC Unterhaching in the Munich team championships
For me, the tournaments are a niche where I can concentrate for several hours on end and switch off everything else. As I did in former times when I programmed computers. That is the ideal pre-Christmas occupation.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
P.S.
The picture was taken by Rolo Zollner. He came to visit me during my match last Friday when we played the club tournament of Tarrasch. He was my Fortune Fairy. I had the black pieces. I succeeded in winning the match after a little more than three hours, because the player of the white pieces gave up after the 27th black move (S:f6). Thinking time was one hour 45 minutes per player for the first 40 moves and then 30 minutes for each of the remaining moves.
To the left, you can see a modern version of a chess clock. Yes, even the chess clocks are now digital clocks, needing batteries. Gone are the days when the leaf fell…
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