Author: Signed by : Helmut Pfleger, Klaus Bischoff, Raj Tischbierek, Jan H. Timman and Stefan Kindermann
Year: 2012
Place: Potsdam
Description:
3 printed sheets with the short biographies of 5 grandmasters at the tournament in Potsdam 2012. Sheet size 11' x 8". 5 handwritten signatures of the grandmasters under their short biographies: Helmut Pfleger, Klaus Bischoff, Raj Tischbierek, Jan H. Timman, Stefan Kindermann.
Helmut Pfleger (born August 6, 1943) is a German chess grandmaster and author. He was one of the most promising chess players in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1977 until 2005, Pfleger hosted a series of chess programs on German public TV, including Chess of the Grandmasters, often together with grandmaster Vlastimil Hort. By profession, he is a doctor of medicine.
Klaus Bischoff (born 9 June 1961 in Ulm) is a German chess player who was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 1990. In international tournaments, he has taken a share of first place on a number of occasions, including Kecskemét 1988, Arosa 1996, Recklinghausen 1999, Essen 2000, Bad Zwesten 2003 and Bad Zwesten again in 2005. In 2006, he tied for 2nd-9th with Luke McShane, Stephen J. Gordon, Gawain Jones, Šarūnas Šulskis, Luís Galego, Daniel Gormally and Karel van der Weide in the 2nd EU Individual Open Chess Championship in Liverpool.
Raj Tischbierek (born 24 September 1962) is a German chess Grandmaster (GM, 1990) who two times won East Germany Chess Championship (1987, 1990). In 1991 he took over the magazine Schach as Editor-in-Chief, for which he founded the Exzelsior Verlag (Excelsior Publishers) in 1999. Raj Tischbierek was awarded Grandmaster (GM) title at the 1990 FIDE Congress.
Jan Timman (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch chess grandmaster who was one of the world's leading chess players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career, he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West". He has won the Dutch Chess Championship nine times and has been a Candidate for the World Chess Championship several times. He lost the title match of the 1993 FIDE World Championship against Anatoly Karpov.
Stefan Emanuel Sylvester Kindermann (born 28 December 1959 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian chess Grandmaster. He played in the 1998 FIDE World Chess Championship knockout matches, has represented Germany and Austria in eight Chess Olympiads, and is the author of several chess books.
Condition:
Edge wear with minor signs of wear overall else very good.