Helmut Pfleger
Helmut Pfleger | |
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Pfleger in 2008 | |
| Country | West Germany |
| Born | August 6, 1943 Teplitz-Schönau, Reichsgau Sudetenland, Germany |
| Title | Grandmaster (1975) |
| FIDE rating | 2477 (June 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2545 (July 1972) |
| Peak ranking | No. 33 (January 1976) |
Helmut Pfleger (born August 6, 1943) is a German chess grandmaster and author. He was one of the most promising chess players in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1977 until 2005, Pfleger hosted a series of chess programs on German public TV, including Chess of the Grandmasters, often together with grandmaster Vlastimil Hort. By profession, he is a doctor of medicine.