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Wolfram Bialas

Wolfram Bialas
CountryGermany
Born(1935-08-25)25 August 1935
Died2 January 1998(1998-01-02) (aged 62)
TitleFIDE Master
Peak rating2370 (July 1989)

Wolfram Bialas (25 August 1935 — 2 January 1998) was a German chess FIDE master and Chess Olympiad team bronze medal winner (1964).

Biography

Wolfram Bialas twice won the West Berlin City Chess Championship (1958, 1962). He played for chess clubs that won the Chess Bundesliga three times: in 1957 for Berliner Schachgesellschaft Eckbauer, in 1961 for Berliner SG 1827 Eckbauer and in 1978 for Königsspringer Frankfurt.

Wolfram Bialas played for West Germany in the Chess Olympiads:[1]

Wolfram Bialas played for West Germany in the European Team Chess Championship preliminaries:[2]

  • in 1957, at the seventh board in the 1st European Team Chess Championship preliminaries (+2, =2, -0),
  • in 1961, at the eighth board in the 2nd European Team Chess Championship preliminaries (+2, =1, -0),
  • in 1965, at the third board in the 3rd European Team Chess Championship preliminaries (+2, =1, -1).

Wolfram Bialas played for West Germany in the Clare Benedict Chess Cups:[3]

  • in 1960, at the reserve board in the 7th Clare Benedict Chess Cup in Biel (+0, =1, -2), winning a team silver medal,
  • in 1961, at the fourth board in the 8th Clare Benedict Chess Cup in Neuhausen (+1, =1, -2), winning team and individual gold medals.

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