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My official DWZ - The German Elo

Sun, 17 May 2026 16:00:12 +0000

Greetings everyone!

You heard it right, I now have a DWZ.
What’s that you’re asking? Well the strength of a player in chess is measured by something called Elo.
It estimates just how strong a player really is.

You can get that by playing online, but those ratings oftentimes don’t reflect your real strength.
What do I mean by that? My rapid elo on chess.com is around 800 while on lichess I’m around 1200 in the same format.

The most important chess tournament I've played in

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:00:06 +0000

Introduction

Yes, you heard it right. This was the most important tournament I’ve played so far.

Not because of me, but because of the Club I’m in.
As far as I’m concerned, this tournament decided if we stay in our current class or if we go down.

Time and moves

In total I played a bit more then 2 hours with a total of 62 move pairs, meaning me and my opponent played that each.