What is Wolfgang Uhlmann?
[[File:WolfgangUhlmannPolanicaZdroj19670809 31.jpg|right|200px]] '''Wolfgang Uhlmann''' (29 March 1935 &ndash; 24 August 2020) was a German [[chess grandmaster]]. He was [[East Germany]]'s most successful professional chess player.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/03/10/archives/chess-uhlmann-hard-man-to-beat-shares-honors-with-spassky.html|title=Chess:; Uhlmann, Hard Man to Beat, Shares Honors With Spassky|first=Al|last=Horowitz|work=[[New York Times]] |date=1966-03-10 |access-date=2020-08-27}}</ref> He won the German Democratic Republic (GDR) [[German Chess Championship|national championship]] 11 times from 1954 to 1986. He was the GDR's most outstanding player at the [[Chess Olympiad]]s of 1956–1990, where he made 11 appearances. At the 1964 event in Tel Aviv, he scored a combined 15 points out of 18,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PlayerProfile.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S134266000000141100957200016610100|title=Chessmetrics Player Profile: Wolfgang Uhlmann|website=chessmetrics.com}}</ref> earning him the individual board one gold medal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olimpbase.org/1964/1964in.html|title=OlimpBase :: 16th Chess Olympiad, Tel Aviv 1964, information|website=www.olimpbase.org}}</ref> An individual bronze medal, for a combined score of 13 points out of 18, followed in 1966 at Havana.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bartelski.pl/olimpbase/1966/1966in.html|title=OlimpBase :: 17th Chess Olympiad, Havana 1966, information|website=bartelski.pl|access-date=2020-08-27|archive-date=2022-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123113710/http://bartelski.pl/olimpbase/1966/1966in.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Uhlmann died on 24 August 2020 from a fall, aged 85.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.n-tv.de/sport/der_sport_tag/Wolfgang-Uhlmann-ist-tot-article21997622.html|title=Wolfgang Uhlmann ist tot |work=[[n-tv]] |language=de|date=2020-08-26 |access-date=2020-08-26}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Uhlmann, Wolfgang}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category: