Klaus Bischoff

This article is about the chess player. For the automobile designer, see Klaus Zyciora.

Klaus Bischoff (born 9 June 1961 in Ulm) is a German chess player who was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 1990.

Klaus Bischoff
Bischoff at Dortmund 2009
Country	Germany
Born	(1961-06-09) 9 June 1961 (age 63) Ulm, West Germany
Title	Grandmaster (1990)
FIDE rating	2445 (November 2024)
Peak rating	2569 (November 2009)

In international tournaments, he has taken a share of first place on a number of occasions, including Kecskemét 1988, Arosa 1996, Recklinghausen 1999, Essen 2000, Bad Zwesten 2003 and Bad Zwesten again in 2005. In 2006, he tied for 2nd-9th with Luke McShane, Stephen J. Gordon, Gawain Jones, Šarūnas Šulskis, Luís Galego, Daniel Gormally and Karel van der Weide in the 2nd EU Individual Open Chess Championship in Liverpool.^[1]

He is a noted expert at rapid chess and is an eleven-time champion of Germany's blitz chess championship. In 1999, he shared first place at the prestigious Essen Rapidplay event with Vladimir Epishin.

Bischoff won the standard German Chess Championship in 2013 and 2015.^[2]

Also a competitor in team chess events, he was part of the German team that took the silver medal at the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul 2000^[3] and twice the bronze medal at the European Team Chess Championship, in 1989 and 2001.

References

1. Crowther, Mark (18 September 2006). "TWIC 619: European Union Individual Championships". London Chess Center. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
2. "GM Klaus Bischoff is the 2015 German Chess Champion". Chessdom. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
3. Bartelski, Wojciech. "34th Chess Olympiad: Istanbul 2000, Germany". OlimpBase. Retrieved 10 July 2009.

External links

Media related to Klaus Bischoff (chess) at Wikimedia Commons

• Klaus Bischoff Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
• Klaus Bischoff rating card at FIDE