Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Klaus Darga

German chess grandmaster (born 1934) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Klaus Darga
Remove ads

Klaus Viktor Darga (born 24 February 1934) is a German chess grandmaster.[1]

Quick Facts Full name, Country ...

Chess career

In 1951, Darga became German Junior Champion after winning the national under-20 championship. He also proved his strength as a young chess player by sharing first place in the World Junior Championship of 1953, with Oscar Panno of Argentina who was awarded the title on tiebreak. He won the West German Chess Championship in 1955 and 1961. He came second in the Gijón international tournament in 1956[2].His best performance is held to be the 1967 Winnipeg tournament, where he also tied for first place with Bent Larsen, whom he beat, ahead of joint Boris Spassky and Paul Keres.

He was awarded the title of International Master in 1957, and Grandmaster in 1964. He played for West Germany in ten Olympiads between 1954 and 1978, and also served as coach of the German national team. He was second reserve for the World team in the 1970 Match of the Century between the Soviet Union and the rest of the world, but did not play any games in the match.

His favourite openings as White were the English Opening and the Ruy Lopez. As Black he often played the Sicilian Defence.

Remove ads

Notable games

Darga vs. Spassky, Amsterdam 1964
abcdefgh
8
Thumb
d8 black king
d6 white pawn
g6 black pawn
a5 white king
f5 black pawn
g5 white pawn
a4 white bishop
c4 black pawn
f4 white pawn
e2 black bishop
8
77
66
55
44
33
22
11
abcdefgh
Final position

Personal life

After his retirement as a chess professional, Darga became a computer programmer for IBM.

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads