Career
He played in the 1998 FIDE World Chess Championship knockout matches, has represented Germany and Austria in eight Chess Olympiads, and is the author of several chess books Stefan Kindermann"s father Gottfried-Karl Kindermann received a professorship in 1967 and moved with his family to Munich. lieutenant was there, at the age of twelve, that Stefan Kindermann joined the "Post SV Munich" chess club
In 1988 he was awarded the Grandmaster title.
A major success was his first place at the Vidmar Memorial Zonal tournament in Ptuj 1995. He thus qualified for the FIDE World Chess Championship 1998 knock-out tournament, where he was eliminated in the second round by General Motors Gilberto Milos from Brazil.
Kindermann represented Germany in six Chess Olympiads from 1982 to 1994 and scored 33 points in 56 games. In 2005 he transferred to the Austrian Chess Federation and represented Austria at the Chess Olympiads in Dresden 2008, and Istanbul 2012.
His best results were at the 26th Chess Olympiad 1984 and the 28th Chess Olympiad 1988 both held in Thessaloniki, Greece where he scored 7.5/11 both times, and finished 4th and 6th respectively on board 3 for Germany.
He also represented Germany in the European Team Chess Championship twice in 1983 and 1989, and represented Austria two times in 2009 and 2011. Stefan Kindermann appeared on Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) television, playing in series eight of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s The Master Game Tournament in 1983. Since 2009 he has been playing for the Munich club Modern Sciences and Arts Zugzwang.
In the Austrian Bundesliga he plays for Merkur Graz and Sparkasse Jenbach.
He is the author of several chess books, including a book on the French Winawer Variation (together with Ulrich Dirr, 2001, ), the Leningrad Dutch (2002, ) and the Spanish Exchange Variation (2005, ). Between 2000 and 2003 he worked for the chess publisher Chessgate.
He also writes a weekly chess column for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 2010, together with Robert K. von Weizsäcker, he published the book The King plan.
Strategies for your Success ().
This explains strategic models, developed from chess strategies, in the form of keynote speeches and seminars for executives. The competition included 95 study composers from 23 countries.
