Dec-21-08 | | whiteshark: Player of the Day
Bio in German: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfga... |
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Dec-21-08 | | whiteshark: There is a booklet <In memoriam Wolfgang Pietzsch> with lots of details and rare photos: http://www.schachverein-griesheim.d... |
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Dec-21-08 | | WhiteRook48: Oh I see is he a wolf?? |
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Dec-21-08 | | whiteshark: Well, now that you mention it, how could somebody lose sight of the fact? |
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Dec-21-08 | | zzzzzzzzzzzz: wolf's dont play chess |
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Dec-21-08 | | zzzzzzzzzzzz: i see he plays the sicilian as white a lot |
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Dec-22-08 | | whiteshark: ...and only 2 <CK> games. |
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Dec-21-11 | | brankat: R.I.P.GM Pietzsch. |
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Dec-21-11 | | BIDMONFA: Wolfgang Pietzsch PIETZSCH, Wolfgang
http://www.bidmonfa.com/pietzsch_wo...
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Dec-21-11 | | Xeroxx: Hello Wolfgang how you doing. |
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Dec-21-11
 | | Penguincw: Happy 71st birthday. |
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Jun-25-12
 | | Chessical: An excerpt from the booklet found by Whiteshark probably explains why Pietzsch retired from the game so early, support for chess and the opportunities to play internationally were drying up. A quotation from from the article "Chess in the GDR", by Paul Werner Wagner in the chess magazine KARL 1/2002, states... "Since 1974, chess as a sport in the GDR was systematically disadvantaged. Participation by the GDR team at the Chess Olympiad was prohibited. The best East German chess players were not allowed to take part in the Zonal or Interzonal tournaments, qualifiers for the World Championship. Only Wolfgang Uhlmann enjoyed an exceptional status but only for a short time." Later, in the same article, it is stated that this was because the GDR's sport's priorities came to simply concentrate around track and field athlectics. |
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Jun-25-12 | | Caissanist: I remember that East Germany stopped playing in Olympiads after they finished behind the West Germans three straight times. It seems that that country generally only competed in sporting events where they could come ahead of their western cousins. |
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Aug-30-12 | | Octal: "Life is Pieztsche" |
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Dec-21-13
 | | Penguincw: R.I.P. GM Wolfgang Pietzsch. |
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Dec-21-16
 | | offramp: A single werewolf is a wolfman.
A great big mob of unruly werewolves is a wolfgang. |
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Dec-21-16 | | zanzibar: And a pack of hungry werewolves is known as a Wolfgang Puck. |
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Dec-22-16 | | zanzibar: Or should that be ravenous? |
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Dec-21-18 | | Nosnibor: The results of the 1966 Leipzig International tournament whereby Pietzsch gained his G.M. title were Pietzch 10.5, Liberson and Kavalek 10, Fuchs and Uhlmann 9.5, Bobotsov 9,Antoshin 8, Trifunovic,Hennings and Zinn 7.5, Golz 7, Barcza 6.5, Malich 6, Liebert 5.5, Sajtar 4.5 and Opecensky 1.5. To Trifunovic went the invidious distinction of drawing all his fifteen games ! R.I.P.Grandmaster Pietzch. |
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