Gabriele Just

Gabriele Just
Gabriele Just
	Gabriele Just in 2013
Country	East Germany ; Germany
Born	28 September 1936
Died	26 February 2024 (aged 87)
Peak rating	2150 (January 1975)

Gabriele Just (28 September 1936 – 26 February 2024^[1]), née Ortlepp, was a German chess player. She was a three-time winner of the East Germany Women's Chess Championship (1964, 1965, 1972), and a physician by profession.

Chess career

From the early 1960s to the early 1970s, Just was one of the leading East German chess players. She won the East Germany Women's Chess Championships three times: 1964, 1965, and 1972.^[2]

She played for East Germany in the Women's Chess Olympiads:^[3]

In 1966, at first reserve board in the 3rd Chess Olympiad (women) in Oberhausen (+7−0=2), winning the team bronze medal and the individual silver medal;
In 1969, at first reserve board in the 4th Chess Olympiad (women) in Lublin (+3−3=2);
In 1972, at second board in the 5th Chess Olympiad (women) in Skopje (+4−3=3).

In the German Chess Women's Bundesliga, Just represented Leipzig chess club Leipzig 1899 from 1991 to 1996. In 1996, she won the German Open Senior Women's Chess Championship.

Just is also known as a correspondence chess player. She took part in the 2nd World Correspondence Chess Women's Championship (1972–1977), taking 7th place.^[4]