Arno Nickel

Arno Nickel

Arno Nickel (born February 15, 1952) is a German correspondence chess Grandmaster and a well-known German chess publisher.

Biography

Arno lives in Berlin, which is also where his publishing company Edition Marco is located.

Since 1983 he has edited the German Schach-Kalender, as well as the "Schach-Journal" together with Alexander Koblencs, former trainer of Mikhail Tal, from 1991 to 1994. He has published numerous books on chess, such as Robert Hübner's "Twenty-five Annotated Games".

Since 2005 Nickel has been promoting Freestyle Chess (Advanced chess, created by GM Garry Kasparov), a new kind of online chess competition with computer-assisted play where almost anything is allowed, including help from other players.

In a correspondence match lasting many months, he won two games and drew a third against Hydra, the most powerful chess supercomputer in the world at that time (2005).

Since 2008 Nickel has promoted the Infinity Chess project, which is located in Abu Dhabi. Amongst other projects Infinity Chess has dedicated itself to Freestyle chess, supporting four play modes: human, engine, centaur (human + engine) and correspondence chess.

On February 16, 2009 Nickel won the Simon Webb Memorial, a category 15 correspondence chess event with 13 grandmasters.[1]

In the ICCF Champions League top group A, season 2007–2009, he achieved the best result on board 1.

In 2011 Nickel won the gold medal with the German Olympic team in the Final of the 17th ICCF Correspondence Chess Olympiad. He scored 8/12 and achieved the best result on board 3.[2]

With an Elo of 2621 his ranking in the January 2018 ICCF rating list is No. 12 in the World.[3]

Nickel has published various articles on computer chess, correspondence chess and chess history.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Simon Webb Memorial
  2. ↑ 17th ICCF Correspondence Chess Olympiad
  3. ↑ ICCF Ratings
  4. ↑ "Correspondence Chess – the draw problem". Chess News. 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
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