Niclas Huschenbeth (born 29 February 1992) is a German chess grandmaster and a two-time German Chess Champion (2010, 2019).[2][3] He played in the Chess Olympiads of 2008 and 2010.[4]
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Country | Germany | ||||||
Born | (1992-02-29) 29 February 1992 (age 30) Hann. Münden, Germany | ||||||
Title | Grandmaster (2012) | ||||||
FIDE rating | 2598 (November 2022) | ||||||
Peak rating | 2628 (November 2019) | ||||||
Peak ranking | No. 152 (November 2019) | ||||||
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Years active | 2012–present | ||||||
Subscribers | 104 thousand[1] | ||||||
Total views | 30 million[1] | ||||||
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Huschenbeth won the German championship in 2010.[2] He came first in the 2011 HSK Großmeisterturnier in Hamburg.[5] He came third in the 2013 National Chess Congress in Philadelphia.[6]
In March 2016, Huschenbeth earned clear first place in the Charlotte Chess Center's GM Norm Invitational held in Charlotte, North Carolina with an undefeated score of 7.0/9.[7]
In 2019, Huschenbeth won the German championship for the second time with 8 out of 9 points, beating Dmitrij Kollars due to the higher average Elo rating of his opponents.[8] He tied 3rd to 11th place in the 2019 European Individual Championship with Kacper Piorun, David Anton Guijarro, Ferenc Berkes, Sergei Movsesian, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Grigoriy Oparin, Maxim Rodshtein, and Eltaj Safarli.[9]
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