Josef Klinger
Number of games in database: 124
Years covered: 1981 to 2002
Last FIDE rating: 2433
Highest rating achieved in database: 2505
Overall record: +38 -42 =44 (48.4%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (11)      B56 B23 B82 B24 B42  Ruy Lopez (7)      C84 C95 C92 C80 C60  Queen's Pawn Game (6)      A46 A45  Ruy Lopez, Closed (5)      C84 C95 C92  Giuoco Piano (5)      C50  French Defense (5)      C02 C15 C03 C01	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (10)      B42 B91 B46 B22 B32  French Defense (9)      C07 C18 C10 C04 C19  Queen's Indian (5)      E17 E19 E15  English (5)      A14 A13 A15 A11  Dutch Defense (5)      A90 A94 A81 A84  Queen's Gambit Declined (4)      D31 D30

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   J Klinger vs Glek, 1990 1-0
   J Klinger vs Blatny, 1988 1-0
   C Matamoros Franco vs J Klinger, 1986 0-1
   Ftacnik vs J Klinger, 1986 1/2-1/2

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JOSEF KLINGER (born Jun-06-1967) Austria [what is this?] Josef Klinger was Austrian champion in 1985 and 1993. He was awarded the IM title in 1985 and the GM title in 1988. He led the Austrian Olympiad teams in 1986 and 1988.

page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 124  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. K Wockenfuss vs J Klinger   1-0 26 1981 Bad Homburg Open 1880/81 E07 Catalan, Closed 2. P Moulin vs J Klinger   1-0 38 1982 EU-ch U20 B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 3. J Klinger vs K Burger   ½-½ 25 1983 Lugano op B19 Caro-Kann, Classical 4. Short vs J Klinger 0-1 35 1983 Belfort B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation 5. Robatsch vs J Klinger   0-1 64 1984 Austria D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 6. J Klinger vs Sax   ½-½ 26 1984 Graz B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack 7. Smyslov vs J Klinger   ½-½ 12 1984 Graz D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 8. Pinter vs J Klinger   1-0 61 1985 Hungary E15 Queen's Indian 9. J Klinger vs W Wittmann   ½-½ 14 1985 OST-CH C50 Giuoco Piano 10. J Klinger vs J Bany   1-0 40 1985 Polanica Zdroj D14 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation 11. Uhlmann vs J Klinger   0-1 46 1985 cat 11 A21 English 12. J Klinger vs Granda-Zuniga   0-1 39 1985 Capablanca mem-A 01 B56 Sicilian 13. J Klinger vs K Mokry   ½-½ 23 1985 Rubinstein mem D14 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation 14. P Roth vs J Klinger   ½-½ 10 1985 OST-CH C55 Two Knights Defense 15. Drasko vs J Klinger   ½-½ 29 1985 Polanica Zdroj E19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3 16. Ivkov vs J Klinger   1-0 38 1985 Capablanca mem-A A04 Reti Opening 17. A Dueckstein vs J Klinger   0-1 36 1985 Austria Ch B40 Sicilian 18. J Klinger vs O Cvitan   ½-½ 19 1985 Polanica Zdroj B42 Sicilian, Kan 19. J Klinger vs V Tukmakov   0-1 37 1985 Szirak B56 Sicilian 20. J Klinger vs Adorjan   1-0 28 1985 It (cat.11) B82 Sicilian, Scheveningen 21. W Schmidt vs J Klinger   ½-½ 58 1985 Rubinstein mem E42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein) 22. I Stohl vs J Klinger   ½-½ 29 1985 Polanica Zdroj A21 English 23. J Klinger vs Granda-Zuniga   1-0 28 1986 Gausdal C60 Ruy Lopez 24. C Matamoros Franco vs J Klinger 0-1 35 1986 Gausdal A41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6) 25. Huebner vs J Klinger   ½-½ 61 1986 Biel C07 French, Tarrasch  page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 124

Jan-21-05    Daodejing: Josef Klinger was the most promising austrian chess player after the World War II. He was 3rd in the Junior World Championship in 1985. At the Chessolympiade in Dubai 1986 he was second at that the first board with 75% behind Kasparov (77,3%). Later he decided to leave chess because in chess there is too less pricemoney, so he became a professional poker player. And he earned a lot of money. For example: http://www.pokerpages.com/tournamen... Euro 80.000 http://www.thepokerforum.com/wsop02... USD 153,700 Mar-10-05    Krahax: I´m very amused about the fantastic games collection Oct-13-05    Daodejing: My favorite picture of Klinger: http://www.chesslive.de/playbase/pl... Jun-06-06    BIDMONFA: Josef Klinger KLINGER, Josef http://www.bidmonfa.com/klinger_jos... _ Jun-06-08    whiteshark: Gambler of the Day Bios: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_... http://www.chess.at/geschichte/gesh... Picture from an earlier time: http://www.chess.at/geschichte/gesh... Oct-20-10    alexrawlings: Looks like this guy made €1,000,000 euros playing poker recently http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe... which I guess justifies why he stopped playing chess!

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