Gert Schnider is an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n professional multi-talented board-game player, e.g. of 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...

 (FIDE master), Go (5th Dan) and Shogi

Shogi

, also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, and Chinese Xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan...

 (5th Dan in Japan = 3rd Dan in Europe) and an Abalone

Abalone (board game)

Abalone is an award winning two-player strategy board game designed by Michel Lalet and Laurent Levi in which each player is represented by marbles of opposing colors...

 grandmaster.

He is the MSO world champion of Abalone in 1999 and 2000 and the MSO world champion of Decamentathlon

Decamentathlon

Decamentathlon is a multi disciplined games event that was created as part of the first Mind Sports Olympiad. It was founded to try to find the best games all-rounder in the world and hence possibly the best games player. It was given a prize fund of £10,000 for the inaugural competition, that...

 in 2000.

In 2000, he held the First International Austrian Shogi Championship.

He is living in Graz

Graz

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 as an officially approved chess teacher ("staatlich geprüfter Schachlehrwart").

External links

• Schnider's MSO page
• Schnider at the FIDE
• Schnider at the European Go Federation
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