ROBERT HUEBNER (born Nov-06-1948, died Jan-05-2025, 76 years old) Germany [what is this?] Dr. Robert Huebner was born in Cologne in 1948. He is widely considered to be the greatest German player since Emanuel Lasker. At age sixteen, he tied for first in the European Championship. At eighteen, Huebner was the joint winner of the West German Championship. In 1971, he received the International Grandmaster title after qualifying for the World Championship Candidates at Palma de Mallorca Interzonal (1970), where he tied for second place. The candidates match with Petrosian took place in Seville, Spain - Petrosian - Huebner Candidates Quarterfinal (1971). The first six games of the match ended in draws, with Petrosian winning the seventh. With three games remaining in the best-of-ten encounter, Huebner forfeited the match, citing problems with excessive heat and noise. Huebner also qualified in 1980. By defeating Adorjan and Portisch, he reached the finals. The candidates final with Korchnoi was a best-of-sixteen match that took place in Merano. Huebner was ahead by a point after six rounds, but lost games seven and eight. The following two games were adjourned, after which Huebner asked for a postponement. After some controversy, he ended up leaving Merano and forfeited the match. By reaching the finals, though, he secured a Candidates spot for the third time. In the next cycle, contested in 1983, he played the 62-year-old former world champion, Smyslov. The encounter took place in the Austrian spa and resort city of Velden. After 14 games, the match was tied. On April 20, the match was decided by the spin of a roulette wheel at Casino Velden. The first spin landed on 0 (green), necessitating a second spin. The second spin landed on 3, a red number, making Smyslov the winner. Widespread dissatisfaction with the randomness of this result led to further games at faster time controls being considered as an alternative tiebreaker. Huebner's last FIDE rating was 2574, and his last FIDE-rated game was in March 2020. His elder brother was Wolfgang Huebner. Wikipedia article: Robert Hübner Last updated: 2025-01-05 21:11:40

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page 1 of 76; games 1-25 of 1,893  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Huebner vs F Vogelmann   ½-½ 56 1961 GER-ch TT (final) C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense 2. Eichner vs Huebner   1-0 65 1961 GER-ch TT (final) B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 3. Huebner vs J Bichlmeier   1-0 46 1961 GER-ch TT (final) B05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern 4. Huebner vs F Vanhoorne   1-0 29 1963 Europe West Team U20 C18 French, Winawer 5. Huebner vs E Eichhorn   1-0 37 1964 Niemeyer Juniors B77 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack 6. R Hartoch vs Huebner   ½-½ 41 1964 Niemeyer Juniors C10 French 7. Huebner vs L Cederquist   ½-½ 31 1964 Niemeyer Juniors B07 Pirc 8. P Van Herck vs Huebner   0-1 41 1964 Niemeyer Juniors B97 Sicilian, Najdorf 9. Huebner vs R A Harris   1-0 34 1964 Niemeyer Juniors B20 Sicilian 10. Huebner vs J Sloth   ½-½ 35 1964 Niemeyer Juniors B76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack 11. E Scholl vs Huebner   ½-½ 51 1964 Niemeyer Juniors C16 French, Winawer 12. Huebner vs S Noorda   1-0 43 1964 Niemeyer Juniors C85 Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation Doubly Deferred (DERLD) 13. G Antunac vs Huebner   0-1 52 1964 Niemeyer Juniors C41 Philidor Defense 14. Huebner vs S Noorda   1-0 29 1964 Niemeyer Juniors 1964/65 C62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense 15. R Verstraeten vs Huebner   ½-½ 52 1964 Niemeyer Juniors 1964/65 B42 Sicilian, Kan 16. C Woodcock vs Huebner   ½-½ 30 1964 Niemeyer Juniors 1964/65 C03 French, Tarrasch 17. Huebner vs J Kolbak   1-0 77 1964 Niemeyer Juniors 1964/65 B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 18. Huebner vs F Hoelzl   1-0 29 1964 Niemeyer Juniors 1964/65 B45 Sicilian, Taimanov 19. Huebner vs Y Bleiman   1-0 39 1965 Niemeyer Juniors 1964/65 B16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation 20. H Ree vs Huebner   ½-½ 15 1965 Niemeyer Juniors 1964/65 C41 Philidor Defense 21. Huebner vs H Glauser   ½-½ 42 1965 Niemeyer Juniors 1964/65 C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 22. P De Haseth vs Huebner 0-1 42 1965 Niemeyer Juniors 1964/65 C10 French 23. Huebner vs J Sibe   1-0 41 1965 Niemeyer Juniors 1964/65 B32 Sicilian 24. S Algera vs Huebner   0-1 33 1965 Niemeyer Juniors 1964/65 A07 King's Indian Attack 25. O Martius vs Huebner   ½-½ 29 1965 FRG CupT B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3  page 1 of 76; games 1-25 of 1,893

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1 OF 13 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-22-02    Sneaky: He played the computer "Deep Fritz" 6 times... and had 6 draws... lol http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Jan-22-02    Doctor Who: This guy looks like the stereotypical chess nerd. Nov-15-02    PVS: He truncated two of his candidates matches: Petrosian in 1971 and Korchnoi in 1981. One went into "overtime"--Smyslov in 1983. The 1981 match was particularly bizarre. Does anyone know if his tournament and match records are available anywhere? Aug-11-03    PVS: A NEW PRODUCT OF INTEREST Fischer World Champion (CD) by Robert Huebner All world champions take up an important place in history of chess, but hardly any has achieved such popularity outside the chess scene as Robert Fischer. In his heyday he did an incredibly amount for chess. His masterpiece, of course, are the many brilliant games. Dr. Robert Hübner has thoroughly examined Fischer’s biggest and best known publication, “My Sixty Memorable Games”. This ChessBase monography includes reports on Fischer’s most important chess matches, including contemporary material. The CD contains a database with an introduction by Robert Hübner, as well as Hübner's analysis of Fischer's "My 60 Memorable Games". The main database contained on the CD has all of Fischer's games, with an introductory text to the most important matches and tournaments. There are 1000 entries, of which 44 are tournament reports, the rest games. About half of the games, 462 in all, are annotated, many very extensively. All the reports are in English and German. The Fischer CD also contains many pictures and 330 MB of historical film footage. Sep-26-03    Ghengis Pawn II: He sure "understands" how to make draw offers. Sep-29-03    Doctor Who: <330 MB of historical film footage> WOW!!! WOW WOW WOW!! I'm sold! Nov-04-03    Eggman: <330 MB of historical film footage> What does that translate to in terms of running time? Does anyone have any idea? It occurs to me that I've rarely seen / heard Fischer on film and ... but this is for the Robert James Fischer page! Apr-09-04    ConLaMismaMano: Huebner was a chess problem composer?? Apr-09-04    acirce: I don't think so ConLa, unless he constructed one or two... No established one, anyway. (Chess composition is fascinating but paradoxally I don't think it has much to do with chess.) Jun-01-04    AdrianP: Apparently Huebner has a book out 25 Annotated Games (1996)... the book is 416 pages long! That's nearly 20 pages of analysis per game! I have the Fischer CD and with it Huebner's look afresh at positions in My 60 Memorable Games - again the analysis is *thorough*. Jun-08-04    vonKrolock: <acirce> "Tidskrift fôr Schack" ceased his problemspalt after more than 110 years!!isnt a pity(question mark) <AdrianP>i have one exemplar of the famous "25 Games", i had to search around 2000 in old-books shops (mine came from Hamburg)- of course only a GM whith the carisma of RH would dare to publish a book in this form (the analisis are very extensive and detailed, an atentive walk through the material is almost so demanding as playing a master game!) considering that he dont used a Chessoftware, his achievment is monumental... Jun-08-04    acirce: <"Tidskrift fôr Schack" ceased his problemspalt> Ceased who's problem column? Lennart Larsson's? Sure it is a pity, but as I said, chess and chess problem composition are quite different things, and "Springaren" doesn't publish Linares games... Jun-08-04    vonKrolock: <acirce> L. Larsson`s "Problem", yes - about the "Studies" spalt i cannot assert... but now many new solvers will not have a fair introdution to the Problem`s world - Springaren is a fine magazine, but it surely have not the same "penetration" of a a magazine for players... Jun-08-04    acirce: I agree with you, of course lots of people are introduced to chess problems via the chess world, it's quite natural; "Springaren" doesn't reach even near as many people. Jun-09-04    vonKrolock: Solving Chess is an essential discipline for all players, once a GM, Mr. Pal Bënko: was showing some of his compositions in our club, one of the fellows solved almost all very quickly; another night Benkö would give a simul against the team, and pointed to him: "If HE plays in my simul, i'll offer him a draw, because he's a GOOD SOLVER" - still about Huebner's book: the way that human's mind work whith Chess situations is strinkingly different from machine - the concept of "essay" (positions arised from a line that have some "hole", but affords beautyfull and/or interesting play is fremd (sorry "strange") to a software, but very important to human feeling and reasoning (Chess solving program "WinChloe", by the way, employes the fhe form "essay-play" in order to show to the solver a series of hiden possibilities... Aug-16-04    Kaspy2: the video stuff on the CD is only a few minutes. Some is also about Benkö and others. Oct-24-04    WMD: <This guy looks like the stereotypical chess nerd.> I believe he is what they term a confirmed bachelor. Oct-30-04    aw1988: This guy wrote a 500 page book on 25 or so of his games. Nov-08-04    offramp: <WMD: <This guy looks like the stereotypical chess nerd.> I believe he is what they term a confirmed bachelor.> Really? A 'confirmed bachelor' in the sense that obituaries write? Nov-08-04    offramp: <WMD:> Does your comment have any relation to, or was it derived from, Ray keene's comment about the 1980 Kortschnoi v Hubner match: <"I have heard the most scurrilous stories and rumours about the premature end of this match which frankly beggar belief.they centre on the relationship between robert hubner, a trainer, and robert's backer ,one wilfred hilgert, now deceased i believe, having reached rock bottom at a critical stage of the contest. however the allegations i have heard cannot possibly be repeated on a family website such as this.in my book i was diplomatic and must remain so here..."> Nov-08-04    An Englishman: Good Evening: Hey! His "notable" games includes zero Hubner Variations! I have to point this out--in my career I conceded exactly one draw when my opponents let me play his variation (and don't think I still don't think about how I blew a won game in that one). Here's a real good one from 1971: Najdorf vs Huebner, 1971 Nov-08-04    euripides: Huebner is also a scholar - a papyrologist, I believe - and has one of the most distinguished records of any amateur chessplayer in the last half-century (I guess one might count Botvinnik as an amateur given his long periods spent on engineering, but he also had long periods on chess). Nov-08-04    WMD: <offramp> I took note of Ray's comment, but I had heard the odd whisper before. <An Englishman> Good afternoon: Did you know that Portisch claims to be the real daddy of the Hübner Variation? From his 1990 NIC interview: 'I have always liked analysing a lot. I was so productive. A lot of variations and novelties that were adopted by other players were actually mine. Take for instance this Nimzo-Indian variation which which they call the Hübner variation. I'm always angry about that, because I already played that line in the fifties, from 1952 till the Bled tournament in 1960. But it was forgotten because it wasn't considered very good. Then suddenly a few years later Hübner started to play it and also Fischer and now they call it the Hübner variation. I have all respect for Mr Hübner, but they forgot that it was actually my idea. But I was not such a well-known player at that time.' Nov-08-04    Swindler: Don't forget Euwe, he was also more of an amateur than a professional. Nov-08-04    PinkPanther: The Hübner Variation? Is that b6 against the Rubinstein Variation of the Nimzo Indian? Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 13) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1 OF 13 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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