Gertrude Baumstark | |
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Baumstarka in 1980 | |
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Born | Timișoara, Romania | 21 May 1941
Died | 28 April 2020 Munich, Germany | (aged 78)
Title | Woman International Master (1970) |
Peak rating | 2245 (January 1990) |
Gertrude Baumstark (21 May 1941 - 28 April 2020[1]), was a Romanian and German chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1970). She is a two-time winner of the Romanian Women's Chess Championship (1967, 1981).
From the mid-1960s, Gertrude Baumstark was one of the leading Romanian women's chess players. In Romanian Women's Chess Championships have won the nine medals: two gold (1967, 1981), six silver (1969, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1986) and bronze (1968).[2] Participant of many international women's chess tournaments, achieved best results in Lublin (1969, shared 1st-2nd place), Pernik (1973, shared 1st-4th place), Lublin (1974, 1st place), Subotica (1974, shared 2nd-3rd place), Nałęczów (1978, shared 1st-2nd place). In 1970, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title.
Gertrude Baumstark four times participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments:
Gertrude Baumstark played for Romania in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[7]
Since 2004, Gertrude Baumstark represented Germany in international chess tournaments.[8]