Beat Züger | |
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Country | Switzerland |
Born | Lachen, Switzerland | 3 June 1961
Died | 4 July 2023 Lachen, Switzerland | (aged 62)
Title | International Master (1984) |
Peak rating | 2480 (January 1995) |
Beat Züger (3 June 1961 – 4 July 2023 [1]) was a Swiss chess player, International Master (1984), Swiss Chess Championship winner (1989).
Beat Züger was the only chess player to win all Swiss national chess titles: Junior Championship, Individual Championship, Team Championship, Team Cup and Coupe Suisse. Together with Claude Landenbergue he was coach of the Swiss junior national team.
In 1978, he became Swiss chess junior champion and won the Coupe Suisse. In 1980, he shared 1st place in Master Open Tournament in Biel Chess Festival. In 1983, he won a young masters tournament in Zug. In 1987, he won the Crédit Suisse World Mixed Tournament in Biel. He won the Swiss Chess Championship in Biel in 1989. [2]
In 1984, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title. He achieved Grandmaster norms in 1995 at the Credis Grandmaster Tournament in Horgen, in 1997 in the Swiss team championship and in 2009 at the European Individual Chess Championship in Budva. [3] However, he could not be awarded the Grandmaster title because he had not achieved the required Elo rating of at least 2500.
Beat Züger played for Switzerland in the Chess Olympiads: [4]
Beat Züger played for Switzerland in the World Team Chess Championship: [5]
Beat Züger played for Switzerland in the European Team Chess Championships: [6]
Beat Züger played for Switzerland in the World Youth U26 Team Chess Championships: [7]
Beat Züger played for Switzerland in the Men's Chess Mitropa Cup (1981–1982, 1984–1993, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011–2013) and won team silver (1985) and three bronze (1981, 1988, 1993) medals. [8]
He had a chess column in the Tages-Anzeiger.
Beat Züger died in July 2023 after a long illness at the age of 62. [9]