Gert Schnider Explained

Gert Schnider (born 1979) is an Austrian professional multi-talented board-game player. In chess he is an International Master, in Go a 5th Dan,^[1] in shogi an amateur 5th Dan in Japan and 3rd Dan in Europe, and in Abalone a grandmaster.

He is the MSO world champion of Abalone^[2] in 1999 and 2000 and the MSO world champion of Decamentathlon in 2000.^[3]

In 2000, he held the First International Austrian Shogi Championship.^[4] Champion of the 2nd International Shogi Forum in 2002.^[5]

He is living in Graz as an officially approved chess teacher "staatlich geprüfter Schachtrainer (A-Trainer)".^[6]

External links

• • • Gert Schnider at the European Go Federation

Notes and References

1. Web site: Go-Forum :: View topic - Shogi Workshop mit Gert Schnider (4.12.2006) . goverband.at . de-at . 12 August 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071221040519/http://www.goverband.at/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=695 . 21 December 2007 . dead.
2. . Aichholzer, F. Aurenhammer, and T. Werner. Algorithmic fun – Abalone. Special Issue on Foundations of Information Processing of TELEMATIK, 1:4–6, 2002.http://web.mst.edu/~tauritzd/courses/cs347/ws2003/AlgorithmicFun-Abalone.pdf retrieved 29 April
3. Mind Sports Olympiad article on decamentathlon http://www.boardability.com/game.php?id=decamentathlon
4. http://www.shogi.net/shogi-l/Archive/2000/Njan15-01.txt
5. http://www.shogi.net/fesa/index.php?mid=4&dateid=Fall+2002&tournamentid=Second+International+Shogi+Forum%2C+Individual+and+1.+board%2C+Tokyo ISF 2002 (FESA)
6. http://styria.chess.at/index.php/2012-09-29-08-54-05/schach-trainer list of Austrian chess trainers