Klaus Bischoff is a German chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 player. He was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 1990.

In international tournaments, he has taken a share of first place on a number of occasions, including Kecskemét

Kecskemét

Kecskemét is a city in the central part of Hungary. It is the 8th largest city of the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun.Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country's third-largest city, Szeged, 86 kilometres from both of them and almost equal distance from the two...

 1988, Arosa

Arosa

Arosa is a town and a municipality in the district of Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is both a summer and a winter tourist resort.-History:...

 1996, Recklinghausen

Recklinghausen

Recklinghausen is the northernmost city in the Ruhr-Area and the capital of the Recklinghausen district. It borders the rural Münsterland and is characterized by large fields and farms in the north and industry in the south...

 1999, Essen

Essen

- Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of...

 2000, Bad Zwesten

Bad Zwesten

-Location:Bad Zwesten lies about 8 km southeast of Bad Wildungen on the river Schwalm, which belongs to the Eder watershed. North of the community begins the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park.-Constituent communities:* Betzigerode* Niederurff...

 2003 and Bad Zwesten again in 2005. In 2006, he tied for 2nd-9th with Luke McShane

Luke McShane

Luke James McShane is an English chess player. A former World Youth Champion and prodigious talent in chess, he has become one of England's leading players and a member of the Olympiad team. He has also been a trader in London's financial sector.- Early career :McShane won the World Under-10...

, Stephen J. Gordon

Stephen J. Gordon

Stephen J. Gordon is a grandmaster of chess from Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. In September 2004, he took a break from his A-level studies at The Blue Coat School, Oldham to compete in the thirteenth Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International.In 2005, while still a FIDE Master, he finished...

, Gawain Jones

Gawain Jones

Gawain Christopher B. Jones is an English chess Grandmaster.-Career:Jones was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire and began playing chess at the age of four, competing in his first tournaments at six...

, Šarūnas Šulskis

Šarūnas Šulskis

Šarūnas Šulskis is a Lithuanian chess Grandmaster .-Chess career:He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship on five occasions: in 1991, 1994, 1998 , 2007 and 2009...

, Luís Galego

Luís Galego

Luís Galego is a Portuguese chess grandmaster. He represented Portugal in ten Chess Olympiads , and achieved a top Elo rating of 2543.In 2006, he tied for 2nd-9th with Luke McShane, Stephen J...

, Danny Gormally

Danny Gormally

Danny Gormally , is a British chess Grandmaster. On the July 2011 FIDE rating list his Elo rating was 2519. His peak rating was 2573 on the January 2006 rating list. Nationally he is ranked 15th, and is the 14th strongest of England's 26 grandmasters...

 and Karel van der Weide in the 2nd EU Individual Open Chess Championship

EU Individual Open Chess Championship

The EU Individual Open Championship was first contested in Cork, Ireland in 2005, under the auspices of organising body, the European Chess Union . The event is open to members of chess federations within the European Union...

 in Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

.

He is a noted expert at rapid chess and is an eleven-time champion of his nation's blitz chess championship. In 1999, he shared first place at the prestigious Essen Rapidplay event with Vladimir Epishin

Vladimir Epishin

Vladimir Epishin is a Russian chess grandmaster with an Elo-rating of 2610.He finished third in the 58th USSR Chess Championship...

.

Also a competitor in team chess events, he was part of the German team that took the silver medal at the 34th Chess Olympiad

34th Chess Olympiad

The 34th Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, took place between October 28 and November 12, 2000, in Istanbul, Turkey.- Chess competition :...

 in Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

, 2000.

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