| Niclas Huschenbeth | |||||||||||||||||
| Country: | Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 29 February 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Hann. Münden, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Grandmaster (2012) | |||||||||||||||||
| Peakrating: | 2628 (November 2019) | ||||||||||||||||
| Peakranking: | No. 146 (January 2024) | ||||||||||||||||
| Fideid: | 24604747 | ||||||||||||||||
| Module: |
| ||||||||||||||||
Niclas Huschenbeth (born 29 February 1992) is a German chess grandmaster and a two-time German Chess Champion (2010, 2019).[1] [2] He played in the Chess Olympiads of 2008 and 2010.[3]
Huschenbeth won the German championship in 2010.[1] He came first in the 2011 HSK Großmeisterturnier in Hamburg.[4] He came third in the 2013 National Chess Congress in Philadelphia.[5]
In March 2016, Huschenbeth earned clear first place in the Charlotte Chess Center's GM Norm Invitational held in Charlotte, North Carolina with an undefeated score of 7.0/9.[6]
In 2019, Huschenbeth won the German championship for the second time with 8 out of 9 points, beating Dmitrij Kollars due to the higher average Elo rating of his opponents.[7] He tied 3rd to 11th place in the 2019 European Individual Championship with Kacper Piorun, David Anton Guijarro, Ferenc Berkes, Sergei Movsesian, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Grigoriy Oparin, Maxim Rodshtein, and Eltaj Safarli.[8]
Huschenbeth has worked as a second for Hikaru Nakamura since 2019, including for the 2022 Candidates Tournament in Madrid and for the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024.[9]