Robert Hübner
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| Full name | Robert Hübner |
| Country | Germany |
| Born |
November 6, 1948 Cologne, West Germany |
| Title |
International Master (1969) Grandmaster (1971) |
| FIDE rating | inactive (not rated) |
| Peak rating | 2640 (July 1981) |
Robert Hübner (born November 6, 1948) is a German chess Grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist. He was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s.
At eighteen, he was joint winner of the West German Chess Championship.
His International Master (IM) title was awarded in 1969 and his Grandmaster (GM) title in 1971. He reached third place in the FIDE world ranking list in 1980.
Hubner played in three Candidates Tournaments for the World Championship. Each ended in controversial circumstances:
At his strongest in the mid-seventies to early eighties, Hübner participated in many of the elite tournaments of the day, such as Tilburg 1978 and Montreal 1979 (The Tournament of Stars), playing alongside Anatoly Karpov, Mikhail Tal, and Jan Timman. There were tournament victories at Houston 1974, Munich 1979 (shared with Ulf Andersson and Boris Spassky), Rio de Janeiro Interzonal 1979 (shared with Lajos Portisch and Tigran Petrosian), and Linares 1985 (shared with Ljubomir Ljubojević).
He served as a second to Nigel Short in the 1993 world championship match against Garry Kasparov.
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