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Dec-31-05
 | | Ron: Hmmm, at grandmaster level. I guess he has a 'knack' at chess. |
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| Sep-04-08 | | myschkin: . . .
Bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer...
Homepage (in German):
http://www.rainerknaak.de/
Article (in German):
http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner...
(Berliner Zeitung, 2006)
* . . . he is still publishing.
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| Jul-03-09 | | BIDMONFA: Rainer F A Knaak KNAAK, Rainer
http://www.bidmonfa.com/knaak_raine...
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| Jul-03-09 | | OlavDalkeith: Rainer was born in EAST Germany, not West Germany! |
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| Jul-03-09 | | Benzol: <OlavDalkeith: Rainer was born in EAST Germany, not West Germany!> Thanks for the correction.
:) |
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| Jul-03-09 | | WhiteRook48: oh, no, not the Berlin wall again |
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| Jul-03-09 | | Calli: However, the Germans never used East and West designations. "East" is more properly GDR (German Democratic Republic) or, in German, DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik). |
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| Jul-03-09 | | waustad: Yes, when i lived in Austria in the 70's it was the BRD and DDR. i haven't been back in decades, but the border was interesting in those days. The train from Heidelberg to Berlin was still on time, even with the guys with machine guns and dogs checking it out. There are times when one can consider it "the bad old days." |
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Jul-03-09
 | | HeMateMe: Get the Knack! (for you folks from the 70s) |
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| Feb-13-11 | | laskereshevsky: Number of games in database: 391
.tch, tch, tch..... A Master very very understimated here on CG I know he played about 1600 games in his career,
and same of them are really attack's masterpieces..... |
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| Mar-24-12 | | wordfunph: "A gambit does not need to be accepted to be refuted." - GM Rainer Knaak |
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| Mar-16-13 | | waustad: Here is a piece from chessbase for his 60th birthday (in German): http://de.chessbase.com/Home/TabId/... |
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May-23-15
 | | offramp: English speakers might say his name as Nark. But the K is pronounced in German: Kernark! |
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| May-23-15 | | cunctatorg: A really impressive, even fascinating tactician, GM Rainer Knaak produced (and he still produces, I bet) a big number of "insane", marvelous combinations and bold attacking games!! |
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| Mar-16-16 | | TheFocus: "Get the Knaak."
Happy birthday, Rainer Knaak. |
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Mar-16-19
 | | Penguincw: Happy Birthday to GM Knaak. Interesting how all his notable games are 1-0. Here's a game of his that's not in the database. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30L... |
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| Jul-13-19 | | OrangeTulip: A statue for Knaak!
If you can win aganst Geller, Van der Wiel and Uhlmann you certainly are a great player.
What strikes me in this game is that Knaak does’nt castle. A lot of clubplayers are slaughtered because of this:) |
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| Jul-13-19 | | OrangeTulip: For those interested in the ‘bad old days’ as <waustad> calls it appopriately, go see the german film ‘Ballon’ |
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| Jul-24-20 | | siggemannen: Knaak had a good record against Uhlmann, but Uhlmann is more well known, perhaps due to him being a specialist in French defence. It would be interesting to read about their rivalry |
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Jul-24-20
 | | perfidious: Uhlmann was no milksop, being a candidate once and a strong GM for a long while--while formidable in his own right and a solid professional, Knaak never quite attained those heights. |
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| Apr-09-24 | | Caissanist: Becoming a grandmaster at 22 was quite an achievement at the time, but Knaak's career (as well as that of Uwe Boensch ) was crippled by the East German government's apparent decision to de-emphasize chess after 1972, when they finished far behind West Germany in the Olympiad. East Germany stopped sending teams to the Olympiad after that, and neither Knaak or Boensch ever played on the other side of the Iron Curtain. |
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| Apr-10-24 | | Olavi: The reason was that chess was not an Olympics discipline. East Germany put everything there, although the players still had reasonable careers. |
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| Apr-11-24 | | Gejewe: <Caissanist> Rainer Knaak often plays is 65+ senior events nowadays, seen him several times. When I am not mistaken, he has played abroad after 1972. Do not have the old tournament books anymore but probably the IBM tournament in 1974 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. But you are right of course that chess had lost priority in East Germany and the strongest players (except Uhlmann who was a legend in his own right ) suffered as a result. |
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| Nov-28-24 | | SkySports: Ranier Knaak is the 2024 Senior World Champion (category 65+). Congratulations! |
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Nov-28-24
 | | Open Defence: I could have sworn his name was Richard... |
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