Klaus V Darga
Number of games in database: 659
Years covered: 1950 to 2000
Current FIDE rating: 2453
Highest rating achieved in database: 2540
Overall record: +240 -81 =333 (62.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      5 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (37)      B92 B90 B22 B88 B35  King's Indian (36)      E81 E62 E82 E91 E83  English (27)      A15 A17 A14 A10 A16  Ruy Lopez (23)      C90 C97 C84 C92 C80  English, 1 c4 c5 (21)      A30 A34 A35 A39 A31  Queen's Indian (20)      E14 E12 E19 E17 E18	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (91)      B42 B40 B43 B48 B47  Nimzo Indian (30)      E54 E41 E39 E59 E30  Sicilian Kan (23)      B42 B43 B41  Ruy Lopez (23)      C76 C78 C95 C60 C97  English (21)      A15 A17 A13 A14 A12  Queen's Indian (20)      E15 E12 E14 E19 E18

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   K Darga vs Spassky, 1964 1-0
   K Darga vs Stein, 1969 1-0
   K Darga vs Fischer, 1961 1/2-1/2
   H Rossetto vs K Darga, 1968 0-1

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Clare Benedict by Chnebelgrind
   Winnipeg 1967: Canada's First Grandmaster Tourna by number 23 NBer

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KLAUS V DARGA (born Feb-24-1934) Germany [what is this?] Klaus Viktor Darga was born February 24, 1934 in Pankow. In 1951 he became the German Junior Champion, and two years later he split first place in the World Junior Championship with Oscar Panno. He was West German chess champion in 1955 and 1961. He gained the grandmaster title in 1964, the same year he competed in the Amsterdam Interzonal and won his game against future World Champion Boris Spassky. Then at Winnipeg 1967, he scored what is largely considered his greatest international success, winning the tournament jointly with Bent Larsen, ahead of Spassky, Paul Keres, and other leading players. Darga represented his country in the Olympiad a total of 10 times, and when the "rest of the world" challenged the Soviet Union to a match in 1970 he was chosen as their second reserve. He remained active in chess in his later years, as a trainer. By profession, he was a computer programmer.

page 1 of 27; games 1-25 of 659  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Richter vs K Darga 1-0 19 1950 Berlin Championship C13 French 2. K Darga vs Uhlmann   ½-½ 87 1951 German Championship U20 D60 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense 3. Klaus Kunze vs K Darga   0-1 45 1951 German Championship U20 C17 French, Winawer, Advance 4. Karl Hans Achatz vs K Darga   0-1 25 1951 German Championship U20 B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen 5. K Darga vs R Fuchs   ½-½ 25 1951 German Championship U20 E68 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Variation, 8.e4 6. Edmund Budrich vs K Darga   1-0 34 1951 German Championship U20 E18 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 7.Nc3 7. K Darga vs Richter   0-1 28 1951 German Championship U20 C80 Ruy Lopez, Open 8. B Malich vs K Darga   0-1 46 1951 German Championship U20 B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen 9. K Darga vs H Schroeder 0-1 72 1951 German Championship U20 A52 Budapest Gambit 10. W Rosen vs K Darga   0-1 29 1951 German Championship U20 C18 French, Winawer 11. K Darga vs Lothar Musmann   1-0 20 1951 German Championship U20 B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation 12. Franz Stahl vs K Darga   0-1 43 1951 German Championship U20 B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation 13. K Darga vs R Von Saldern   1-0 39 1951 German Championship U20 C05 French, Tarrasch 14. W Bialas vs K Darga   1-0 18 1951 German Championship U20 C05 French, Tarrasch 15. J Penrose vs K Darga   ½-½ 31 1953 Wch U20 final-A C78 Ruy Lopez 16. K Darga vs J Sherwin   1-0 59 1953 Wch U20 final-A B22 Sicilian, Alapin 17. J Penrose vs K Darga   0-1 41 1953 Wch U20 qual-B B59 Sicilian, Boleslavsky Variation, 7.Nb3 18. K Darga vs Larsen   1-0 52 1953 Wch U20 final-A E47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 19. K Darga vs F Olafsson   1-0 53 1953 Wch U20 final-A C90 Ruy Lopez, Closed 20. K Darga vs F Roessel   ½-½ 55 1953 Wch U20 qual-B C08 French, Tarrasch, Open, 4.ed ed 21. K Darga vs Larsen   1-0 49 1953 Wch U20 qual-B C82 Ruy Lopez, Open 22. Ivkov vs K Darga   ½-½ 51 1953 Wch U20 final-A E19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3 23. K Darga vs H Heikkila 1-0 14 1953 Wch U20 qual-B B10 Caro-Kann 24. F Scafarelli vs K Darga   ½-½ 63 1953 Wch U20 qual-B E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto 25. K Darga vs Panno   ½-½ 41 1953 Wch U20 final-A E94 King's Indian, Orthodox  page 1 of 27; games 1-25 of 659

May-13-04    Sacapeach: This guy sure does love do draw people. It looks to me like he plays drawish openings and trades queens off way too early. May-14-04    iron maiden: All I know about him is that he was second reserve for the Rest-of-the-World in the 1970 match against the U.S.S.R. Jul-14-04    nikolaas: He was born the 24th february 1934. In 1951 he became the German Junior champion. In 1955 and 1961 He became champion of German by the upper ten. In 1953 he shared the victory in the Junior worldchampionship with Oscar Panno. In the interzonal tournament in Amsterdam he beated Spassky and Portish. In Winnipeg in 1967 he won a tournament ahead of Larsen, Spassky and Keres. Between 1954 and 1978 he played in 10 olympiads for Germany and he was together with Unzicker and Schmid one of the strongest players in the German team. He was Fridrik Olafsson's second for some time (Payed by the government of Iceland). Between 1989 and 1998 he was the trainer for the German team. Here is his Opus Magnum: K Darga vs Spassky, 1964 Dec-11-04    Kaspy2: the game in West Berlin was his stake to fame since he made it into Fischer's 60 memorable games. Dec-27-04    Benzol: Klaus Viktor Darga Adding to the information supplied by <nikolaas> above. He was born in Pankow and was awarded the IM title in 1957 and the GM title in 1964. May-09-05    WTHarvey: Here are some diagrams of crucial positions in Klaus's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/darg.html Feb-24-06    BIDMONFA: Klaus V Darga DARGA, Klaus V. http://www.bidmonfa.com/darga_klaus... _ May-24-07    vonKrolock: A reader, Ernest Schlich, from the USA, told following in this week's Pandolfini's chesscafe.com page: <"Even grandmasters can make the mistake of resigning too early. In Henry Hunvald’s book Chess Quotations from the Masters there are a couple of good quotes to keep in mind when thinking about resigning. GM Klaus Darga said “My God, I have a winning position” a moment after resigning."> It would be curious to discover to which Game this story is related May-24-07    SwitchingQuylthulg: <vonKrolock>: this game: K Darga vs L Lengyel, 1964 Feb-24-08    whiteshark: Bios in <D> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_... <GB> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_... <NL> http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_... Olympiads Statistics: http://www.olimpbase.org/players/n5... Feb-24-09    WhiteRook48: wow, he played exactly 50 years!

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