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Thomas Luther was born on 4 November, 1969 in Erfurt, East Germany, is an A german chess player. Discover Thomas Luther's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

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Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 4 November 1969
Birthday 4 November
Birthplace Erfurt, East Germany
Nationality Germany

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1969

Thomas Luther (born November 4, 1969, in Erfurt) is a German chess player and International Grandmaster of chess.

1978

1978 he became a member of the club HSG Medizin Erfurt.

1980

1980, 1981 and 1984 he won the respective East Germany championship for his age class.

1985

Beginning with 1985 he played for Mikroelektronik Erfurt in the Oberliga, the highest league in the GDR.

1986

1986 he won the 12.

GDR youth-championship in correspondence chess.

1988

1988 he was awarded the title International Master by FIDE.

1989

After a series of further successes, among them second places at the GDR championship in Zittau 1989 and in Altensteig 1991 and victories in Andorra 1992, Lenk and Hamburg 1993 and finally his first (all-)German championship 1993 (after a 2–0 victory in the final against Thomas Pähtz) he became Grandmaster in 1994.

1994

During his active career he won many international tournaments, i.e. Lippstadt (1994), Hastings (1994/95), Bissen (1995), Apolda (1994 and 1999), Turin (1996), Cienfuegos (1997), Bad Zwesten (1998), Nova Gorica (2000), Böblingen (2005), Oberwart (2005) and Bad Homburg (2008).

1997

1997 Thomas Luther qualified for the world championships in Groningen.

In this KO-tournament he won the first round 3.5–2.5 against Lajos Portisch but lost (0.5–1.5) against Vladimir Akopian in round 2.

1998

Between 1998 and 2006 Thomas Luther was often part of the German selection representing Germany in various international team tournaments: in the Olympiads 1998 in Elista (6th place), 2000 in Istanbul (2nd place), 2002 in Bled (14th place) and 2006 in Turin (15th place).

2000

In 2000 he was a member of the German team that won the silver medal in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul.

He started to play chess at the age of four.

Even in his childhood days he started to avidly read classic chess literature and learned a lot by himself.

2001

2001 he qualified again and won the first round in Moscow 3–1 against Sergey Volkov but lost against Ilya Smirin (0.5–1.5).

He also played for Germany in the World Team Chess Championship of 2001 and the European Team Chess Championship of 2003 in Plovdiv.

2002

In 2002 he won the German championship in Saarbrücken again, outdistancing Alexander Graf and Florian Handke.

The game was played in the penultimate round of the German championship 2002 and laid the ground for Thomas' later winning the title.

The comments are based on personal conversations with Thomas Luther himself.

Black already offers a pawn sacrifice.

Due to The Gambit-style opening the position immediately becomes sharp and concrete.

After ''4.

d5xc6 Sb8xc6'' black has a good game.

Either way, Black absolutely wants to sacrifice a pawn.

White didn't want to take the risk of accepting the second sacrifice.

After ''6.

e6xf7+ Ke8xf7'' the rook h8 dangerously comes into play too.

Again Black continues as aggressively as possible.

The second knight joins the attack.

Blacks opening strategy was successful.

Black starts a combination leading to material gain.

2006

He won his third German national championship in 2006 in Osterburg in a tie-breaker with Vitaly Kunin and Artur Yusupov.

2009

In 2009 he won 6th LGA Premium Chess Cup in Nürnberg.

2010

Thomas Luther, who suffers from dysmelia played at the 39th Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, 2010 first board for the IPCA (International Physically Disabled Chess Association) and made 6.5 points out of 10.

2011

In October 2011 he won the first World Chess Games for Disabled with a perfect score of 7 out of 7.

He is the head of the FIDE Commission on Disabled and played for the IPCA team once.

He is also head of the division for competitive chess (Referent für Spitzenschach) in the German chess federation.

Thomas Luther's style is tactically oriented, which makes him a formidable opponent for even the strongest player.

The following game is typical where he attacks former Candidate Robert Hübner right out of the opening.