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Ten grandmaster norms & still counting...

we profile Horst Rittner at 70

1/2001

6th CC World Champion Horst Rittner

(right) talking with the late CC-GM

Dick Smit at the 1996 ICCF Congress

Email Chess World Championship report

Great games issue: sizzling play!

Theory: Traxler Attack in the Two Knights

Ectool 6.0 email CC program reviewed

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Contents

G REETINGS to our new subscribers and

Horst Rittner at 70

Introduction: pages 2-3

Rittner interview

Pages 4-6

Career highlights

Page 7

Games by Rittner

Pages 8-15

Estrin Memorial

Tournament report

Pages 16-22

Four new GM games

Pages 23-25

1st ICCF Email World

Championship report

Pages 26-33

37th Hungarian CC

Championship

Pages 34-37

New Swedish CC

Champion’s games

Pages 38-44

Theory: Traxler Attack

Pages 45-49

Ectool email program

Software review

Pages 50-51, 64

ICCF Results

Pages 52-62

Book Reviews

Page 63

ECO Openings Index

Page 64

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PDF electronic file format as the way of the future

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heard a plea to include less historical material

and more recent games. This issue is indeed

largely filled with news and games, and our next

issue will focus on Internet and computer issues,

including reviews of electronic books and our

annual survey of the best chess websites.

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before the end of the old year, hoping to avoid

the most difficult weeks with the postal service

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Looking to the future

The sixth correspondence

chess World Champion

Horst

Rittner

speaks

his

mind

Like it or not (& some

certainly don’t like

it), at 70 years

of age, a World

Champion has

earned the right

to have his say...

Champion, is a somewhat con-

troversial figure in his homeland.

You can see that for yourself in the

following interview, in which the views

he expresses are his own and are not

endorsed by Chess Mail. However, a

world champion is entitled to his say.

A few months ago, he reached the age

of 70 but is still competing at a high level.

In the opinion of his predecessor Dr Hans

Berliner, Rittner is one of the best CC

players ever and made very few errors in

the games played in his prime.

As Dr Fritz Baumbach has put it, Rittner

is “the world champion of grandmaster

norms”. His record of ten CC-GM norms

may never be equalled, and it certainly

cannot be ruled out that he will eventually

add a few more to that total.

Horst Rittner was born in July 16,

1930 in Breslau (home town of Adolf

Anderssen), which is now the Polish

city of Wroclaw. He grew up during the

turbulent years of World War II. As an

adult he lived in Berlin and was a citizen

of the communist-governed DDR.

He had learned chess (depending

on which source you consult) at the

age of 12 or 13 (i.e. during WW2) from

his father, joined his local chess club

in 1948 and took up CC in 1949. His

first tournament was Group 20 of the

Deutschen Schachblätter, taking first

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H ORST Rittner, the 6 th CC World

place with 13/14. A succession of good

results led to qualifying for the final of

the 2nd German championship, 1951-53

(from the DDR preliminaries) in which

he took a high position. He then won the

final of the 3 rd German Ch., 1953-56.

Three times in the 1950’s he entered

the OTB championship of the DDR but,

as he put it himself, “only with moderate

success”. He has been a CC specialist for

most of his life.

At this early stage in his career, he told

the Fernschach editor, “Chiefly I play 1

e4 but in recent times also equally 1 d4

and 1 N f3. I prefer a positional game to

a combinative game. I don’t hold much

with the so-called advantage of the first

move. Chess theory constantly discovers

new ideas for Black, and in CC one can

directly give them a good trial.” Later in

Fernschach (1971) he said that he began

postal chess to improve his middle-game

and endgame play for OTB but soon

learned that CC was an art in itself.

Up to 1954 he worked in a bank but

then got his DDR sports job which was

followed by editorial work. Evidently

it wasn’t a great handicap for Rittner’s

career to have access to the latest

chess information and opening theory,

sometimes even before publication, but

other players have had similar advantages

without capitalising on them.

After winning the German Champ-

ionship, it wasn’t long before he made

an impression on the world stage. In the

USSR-Germany match (1955-57) he lost

both games on top board to GM Dubinin

but then he achieved the grandmaster

title by winning top board of the 3rd

Olympiad Final (1967-1971) with a 7.5/9

score. This was followed by a convincing

two-point margin of victory (with only

10 games!) in the very strong Ragozin

Memorial (1963-66), as a result of which

he was invited to play in the final of

the 6 th World Championship. (He never

played a semifinal.)

In the year subsequent to winning the

World Championship, Rittner concen-

trated mostly on invitational grandmaster

tournaments organised by national fed-

erations, usually playing two or more

simultaneously. He also scored a note-

worthy victory against Tigran Petrosian,

the former FIDE world champion, in the

early 1970s.

The reunification of Germany a decade

ago eventually brought his editorial

career to a close, but he continued to

play strong CC. He then surprised the

chess world in 1998 by taking up his

long-deferred qualification place in

World Championship Final XVI.

We begin with the interview he gave

to “Schach” a few months ago, now

published in English for the first time

(with a few cuts). There follows a survey

of Rittner’s career with tables and a

selection of his games.

CORRESPONDENCECHESS.COM

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John C. Knudsen

Email: knudsenjohnc@hotmail.com

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