Wolfgang Unzicker

Wolfgang Unzicker
Wolfgang Unzicker, 1953
CountryGermany
Born(1925-06-26)26 June 1925
Pirmasens, Germany
Died20 April 2006(2006-04-20) (aged 80)
Albufeira, Portugal
TitleGrandmaster (1954)
Peak rating2545 (July 1971)
Peak rankingNo. 38 (July 1971)

Wolfgang Unzicker (26 June 1925 – 20 April 2006) was one of the strongest German chess Grandmasters from 1945 to about 1970. He decided against making chess his profession, choosing law instead. Unzicker was at times the world's strongest amateur chess player, and World Champion Anatoly Karpov called him the "world champion of amateurs".

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