| Ute Späte | |
| Country: | Germany |
| Birth Date: | 17 November 1961 |
| Peakrating: | 2090 (January und July 1988) |
| Fideid: | 4608852 |
Ute Späte (born 17 November 1961) is a German chess player who won West Germany Women's Chess Championship (1987).
Together with the girls from North Rhine-Westphalia, Ute Späte won the German state championships for girls in 1978 in Schwäbisch Gmünd[1] and 1979 in Dernau.[2] At the eighth German championship for girls in 1981 in Bitburg she took 4th place.[3] In Bad Oeynhausen 1984 she became Women's Chess Champion of North Rhine-Westphalia.[4]
In 1984 she took part in the West Germany Women's Chess Championship, which Barbara Hund won, in Bad Aibling and finished 10th.[5]
Three years later, Ute Späte won the West Germany Women's Chess Championship in 1987 in Bad Lauterberg ahead of Anja Dahlgrün.[6]
At the end of the 1980s, Späte played for SC Kreuzberg, for whom she also played as a substitute in the season 1987/88 in the 1. Chess Women's Bundesliga was reported, but remained without action. She won the Berlin Women's Chess Championship in 1989.[7]