Horst Rittner
{{Short description|German chess grandmaster (1930–2021)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox chess player
| name = Horst Rittner
| image = Rittner horst 20081025 berlin bundesliga.jpg
| caption = Rittner in 2008
| full_name = Horst Robert Rittner
| country = Germany
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|7|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = Breslau, Germany (today Wrocław, Poland)
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|6|14|1930|7|16|df=y}}
| death_place =
|title = ICCF Grandmaster (1961)
| ICCFworldchampion = 1968–1971
| rating =
| peakrating =
}}
Horst Robert Rittner (16 July 1930 – 14 June 2021) was a German correspondence chess Grandmaster. He was born in Breslau, Weimar Germany, and was the sixth ICCF World Champion, between 1968 and 1971. He also edited the German magazine Schach.
References
- {{cite book
|last1=Hooper
|first1=David
|authorlink1=David Vincent Hooper
|last2=Whyld
|first2=Kenneth
|authorlink2=Kenneth Whyld
|title=The Oxford Companion to Chess
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|edition=2nd
|year=1996
|orig-date=First pub. 1992
|page=343
|isbn=0-19-280049-3}}
External links
{{cc}}
- {{Chessgames player|43498}}
- {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515042129/http://www.chessmail.com/players/rittner.htm |title=Rittner at chessmail.com}}
- [https://de.chessbase.com/post/horst-rittner-gestorben Nachruf bei ChessBase von André Schulz], Obituary – 18 June 2021
- [https://www.schachbund.de/news/horst-rittner.html Nachricht beim Deutschen Schachbund], News – 19 June 2021
- {{ICCF}}
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{{succession box
| before = {{flagicon|United States}} Hans Berliner
| title = World Correspondence Chess Champion
| years = 1968–1971
| after = {{flagicon|Soviet Union}} Yakov Estrin
}}
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Category:Correspondence chess grandmasters
Category:World Correspondence Chess Champions
Category:Chess players from Wrocław
Category:People from the Province of Lower Silesia
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