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Werner Hug

Number of games in database: 633
Years covered: 1969 to 2017
Last FIDE rating: 2469 (2467 rapid)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2483
Overall record: +99 -123 =374 (48.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 37 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 King's Indian Attack (64) 
    A07 A08
 Queen's Pawn Game (50) 
    A46 D02 A40 A41 A45
 Sicilian (45) 
    B23 B31 B40 B52 B27
 Reti System (37) 
    A04 A06 A05
 Ruy Lopez (9) 
    C68 C64 C69 C65 C85
 Uncommon Opening (8) 
    A00 B00
With the Black pieces:
 French Defense (94) 
    C18 C04 C07 C00 C03
 King's Indian (77) 
    E91 E80 E71 E60 E73
 French Tarrasch (38) 
    C04 C07 C03 C05
 French Winawer (32) 
    C18 C15 C17 C19
 Sicilian (29) 
    B47 B36 B44 B30 B48
 English (29) 
    A10 A15 A16 A13
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Karpov vs W Hug, 1969 1/2-1/2
   Petrosian vs W Hug, 1973 1/2-1/2
   W Hug vs Andersson, 1971 1-0
   W Hug vs A Medina Garcia, 1972 1-0
   W Zili vs W Hug, 1989 1/2-1/2
   E Dervishi vs W Hug, 2003 0-1
   W Hug vs S Kagan, 1973 1/2-1/2
   Van Wely vs W Hug, 1994 0-1
   Reshevsky vs W Hug, 1973 1/2-1/2
   W Hug vs Savon, 1973 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   World Junior Championship Final-C (1969)
   Hospitalet (1973)
   Dortmund (1980)
   Be'er Sheva Zonal (1985)
   FRG-ch International (1971)
   Sao Paulo (1973)
   Biel (1977)
   Mitropa Cup (1983)
   World Student Team Championship Final-A (1976)
   Haifa Olympiad (1976)
   Lucerne Olympiad (1982)
   European Club Cup (2006)
   Istanbul Olympiad (2012)
   Dresden Olympiad (2008)
   Tromso Olympiad (2014)

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 TCh-SUI
   R Forster vs W Hug (Oct-15-17) 1-0
   W Hug vs O Cvitan (Oct-14-17) 1/2-1/2
   W Hug vs O Kurmann (Oct-08-16) 1/2-1/2
   W Hug vs J Gallagher (Oct-11-14) 1/2-1/2
   Eu Wen Aron Teh vs W Hug (Aug-12-14) 0-1

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WERNER HUG
(born Sep-10-1952, 72 years old) Switzerland

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Werner Hug was born in Feldmeilen, Switzerland. Awarded the IM title for becoming World Junior Champion in 1971, he won the Swiss Championship in 1975. In 1979, he set a world record in simultaneous play on 560 boards, scoring +385 -49 =126. He played on numerous Swiss Olympiad teams.

http://www.olimpbase.org/players/nx... Wikipedia article: Werner Hug

Last updated: 2017-10-31 07:14:39

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 page 1 of 26; games 1-25 of 633  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Romanishin vs W Hug  1-0731969Schilde op U18 5thA57 Benko Gambit
2. W Hug vs E Torre  ½-½501969World Junior Championship qual-2B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation
3. Karpov vs W Hug ½-½381969World Junior Championship qual-2B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
4. W Hug vs K Payrhuber  1-0431969World Junior Championship qual-2B90 Sicilian, Najdorf
5. R M McKay vs W Hug  ½-½201969World Junior Championship qual-2B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
6. W Hug vs A Sznapik  0-1411969World Junior Championship qual-2B53 Sicilian
7. J Fridjonsson vs W Hug  ½-½311969World Junior Championship qual-2B56 Sicilian
8. C Sumiacher vs W Hug  ½-½641969World Junior Championship Final-CA16 English
9. W Hug vs J Moles  1-0251969World Junior Championship Final-CC46 Three Knights
10. J Seret vs W Hug  1-0591969World Junior Championship Final-CB61 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, Larsen Variation, 7.Qd2
11. W Hug vs T Ristoja  ½-½191969World Junior Championship Final-CC47 Four Knights
12. W Hug vs D Uddenfeldt  1-0221969World Junior Championship Final-CB06 Robatsch
13. A Sznapik vs W Hug  ½-½361969World Junior Championship Final-CA15 English
14. G Makropoulos vs W Hug  0-1331969World Junior Championship Final-CB25 Sicilian, Closed
15. W Hug vs J Bellon Lopez  0-1461969World Junior Championship Final-CB30 Sicilian
16. J Fridjonsson vs W Hug  ½-½761969World Junior Championship Final-CB83 Sicilian
17. V Silva vs W Hug  0-1271969World Junior Championship Final-CB60 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer
18. W Hug vs R Weber  ½-½571969World Junior Championship Final-CB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
19. W Hug vs R Teschner 1-0371971FRG-ch InternationalC69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation
20. M Gerusel vs W Hug  0-1381971FRG-ch InternationalA40 Queen's Pawn Game
21. W Hug vs H Hecht  ½-½621971FRG-ch InternationalA49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
22. K Schiffer vs W Hug  1-0211971FRG-ch InternationalA56 Benoni Defense
23. W Hug vs Parma  ½-½131971FRG-ch InternationalE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
24. J Dueball vs W Hug  ½-½171971FRG-ch InternationalA54 Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3
25. M Damjanovic vs W Hug  ½-½291971FRG-ch InternationalA54 Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3
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Jun-28-05  aw1988: That sounds about right.
Jul-11-05  farrooj: Hug is funnier, why'd you spoil it?
Jul-11-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  TheAlchemist: I didn't spoil it. aw1988 asked a legitimate question and I gave him a legitimate answer. Truth is always relative, so... YOU can pronounce it any way YOU want. In fact, I used this trick in my profile as well, so I guess I'm a hypocrite.
Jul-11-05  jamesmaskell: To think we are mickey taking froma World Junior Champion! Best join in...

Just noticed that Hug was beaten to the precious.... (game 44) and was rogered by Rogers (game 95).

Hug fought a Nunn and I got shot for Ribli tickling jokes!

Jul-11-05  farrooj: naaaaaaaa it's alright... Why are you shouting YOU anyways, sounds as if your mad. What's wrong?
Jul-11-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  TheAlchemist: <farrooj> I wasn't shouting, I was articulating it to make it clearer. How could I be mad at you? :-)
Jul-11-05  farrooj: I dunno... Where's the Love ? lol
Sep-10-06  BIDMONFA: Werner Hug

HUG, Werner
http://www.bidmonfa.com/hug_werner....
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Sep-10-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  oao2102: This guy's name makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside...
Sep-10-06  kevin86: I have to show this man some respect since we share the same birthday. He does have a BAD record,however :(
Sep-10-07  chessamateur: POTD (Player Of The Day)
Aug-10-09  MoonlitKnight: Can anyone tell me why this guy is one of the special guests at the Zürich Jubilee Open along with Kasparov, Karpov, Anand, Kramnik, Topalov, Spassky, Korchnoi, Polgar, Ponomariov and Khalifman? Seems like he's a little out of his league.
Aug-10-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  mjmorri: <Can anyone tell me why this guy is one of the special guests at the Zürich Jubilee Open along with Kasparov, Karpov, Anand, Kramnik, Topalov, Spassky, Korchnoi, Polgar, Ponomariov and Khalifman? Seems like he's a little out of his league.>

He is one of the top players from Switzerland where the Jubilee is held. Probably a courtesy.

Aug-25-09  walker: <Can anyone tell me why this guy is one of the special guests at the Zürich Jubilee Open along with Kasparov, Karpov, Anand, Kramnik, Topalov, Spassky, Korchnoi, Polgar, Ponomariov and Khalifman? Seems like he's a little out of his league.> That tournament is for WC. And he was World Junior Champion
Aug-25-09  DCP23: <MoonlitKnight>

The idea was to assemble World Champions only. Some of them are FIDE Champions, ok. Polgar was invited because she is "the strongest female player ever". And Hug was a Junior World Champ in the 70s, obviously the closest the Swiss could get to fielding one of their own.

Aug-25-09  dx9293: I thought Hug might get embarrassed, but he held up pretty well. Minus-two in this field is no small feat.
May-31-11  Nietzowitsch: free hugs @ Cologne April 2011: http://player.vimeo.com/video/24157... Enjoy - nothing to add...
Apr-22-12  waustad: I'm guessing that when they write FRG they mean what I think of as BRD, Bundesrepublikdeutschland. On the western side of the pond we always called it East and West Germany, but in Europe I usually saw BRD and DDR.
Sep-10-12  waustad: Happy 60th B'day!
Feb-23-13  IndigoViolet: He looks like Ray Keene's evil twin.
Dec-08-13  Refused: <TheAlchemist: <aw1988> "Hoog">

Not 100% correct though.

devoicing of the last phoneme in a word is a phenomenom in some languages, including German.

So the proper pronunciation would be <"Hook">.

Feb-26-14  weary willy: Poor guy ... it's not enough that his record shows that he never fulfilled the potential of being Junior WC, he has to suffer the indignity that over half of his "biography" is about him watching a game that two other people played - "stellar" (?!) or not
Feb-26-14  Granny O Doul: Announced the result in a "stellar" fashion? Like Marlon Brando at the end of "Streetcar"?
Oct-05-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  Fusilli: Thanks <WCC Editing Project> for editing the bio, removing the offending sentence <Granny O Doul> and <weary willy> were objecting to.
Jan-14-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  An Englishman: Good Evening: Uhhhh--560 boards in a simul? Let's say he spent 5 seconds at each board for his opening move. That equals 2,800 seconds to play move 1 on every board, or more than 45 minutes, and almost 8 hours to play the first 10 moves.

Wonder how many players got bored and walked away from the event, and how many of his wins consisted of forfeits. Personally, would rather watch a player face 10 opponents without sight of the boards.

Nonetheless, his world record gets my respect, partly because of the physical endurance required.

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