Friedrich Baumbach
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Dr Friedrich Baumbach (born September 8, 1935 in Weimar
, Germany
) is a German chess
grandmaster of correspondence chess
, most famous for being the eleventh ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1983 and 1989. He was also East German Champion in 1970.
He placed 2nd= in a "champion of champions" tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee, behind Mikhail Umansky
. This was a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions—see World Champions Jubilee Tournament (2003).
Weimar
Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
) 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...
grandmaster of correspondence chess
Correspondence chess
Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence chess server, through email or by the postal system; less common methods which have been employed include fax and homing pigeon...
, most famous for being the eleventh ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1983 and 1989. He was also East German Champion in 1970.
He placed 2nd= in a "champion of champions" tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee, behind Mikhail Umansky
Mikhail Umansky
Mikhail Markovich Umansky , born January 21, 1952 in Stavropol, then USSR, was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, who was the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998...
. This was a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions—see World Champions Jubilee Tournament (2003).