Gert Schnider

Gert Schnider (born 1979) is an Austrian professional multi-talented board-game player. In chess he is an International Master, in Go a 5th Dan,[1] in shogi an amateur 5th Dan in Japan and 3rd Dan in Europe,[1] and in Abalone a grandmaster.

He is the MSO world champion of Abalone[2] in 1999 and 2000 and the MSO world champion of Decamentathlon in 2000.[3]

In 2000, he held the First International Austrian Shogi Championship.[4] Champion of the 2nd International Shogi Forum in 2002.[5]

He is living in Graz as an officially approved chess teacher "staatlich geprüfter Schachtrainer (A-Trainer)".[6]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Go-Forum :: View topic - Shogi Workshop mit Gert Schnider (4.12.2006)". goverband.at (in Austrian German). Archived from the original on 21 December 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  2. ^ . Aichholzer, F. Aurenhammer, and T. Werner. Algorithmic fun – Abalone. Special Issue on Foundations of Information Processing of TELEMATIK, 1:4–6, 2002.[1] Archived 14 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 29 April
  3. ^ Mind Sports Olympiad article on decamentathlon http://www.boardability.com/game.php?id=decamentathlon Archived 8 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ http://www.shogi.net/shogi-l/Archive/2000/Njan15-01.txt [bare URL plain text file]
  5. ^ ISF 2002 (FESA)
  6. ^ list of Austrian chess trainers on styria.chess.at