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A German chess club situated in a suburb of Cologne which has a tremendous palmares in Bundesliga and in a German Club Cup. It won the national title in 1969, 1979, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000 and 2003-04. Also the team won eight times the German Cup. In 2005 the team, which included Michael Adams ENG 2740, Christopher Lutz GER 2596, Loek van Wely NED 2681, Ivan Sokolov NED 2663, Rafael Vaganian ARM, Alexander Beliavsky SLO 2660, Alexander Graf GER 2646, Mikhail Gurevich BEL 2644, Curt Hansen DEN 2633 and several other Grandmasters, had a rating average of 2653 with a budget of 100,000 Euros.

I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language. Boris Spassky
1995
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw. Judith Polgar
FT, 2014
Kasparov is great as a chess player, but all his attempts to prove himself as an organizer – let’s say, is beyond the champion’s level. Boris Gelfand
2016
Politics is a team game, here it is necessary to compromise, to take into account the views of other people. As for Garry, he is quite a contentious, totalitarian person. But in general, I’m sorry that Kasparov switched to a role that does not match the scale of his personality. Vladimir Kramnik
2015
Chess politic is not my dream, but I will be happy when we start to change things and organize a better chess life in the world. Anatoly Karpov
2010

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