Christopher Lutz | |
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Country | Germany |
Born | Neukirchen-Vluyn, West Germany | 24 February 1971
Title | Grandmaster (1992) |
FIDE rating | 2519 (November 2023) |
Peak rating | 2655 (July 2002) |
Peak ranking | No. 35 (July 2002) |
Christopher Lutz (born 24 February 1971) is a German chess grandmaster and a two-time German Chess Champion.
Born in 1971, Lutz earned his international master title in 1989 and his grandmaster title in 1992. He won the German Chess Championship in 1995 and 2001. In 2000 he competed on board 4 for the German team that won the silver medal at the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. [1]
Lutz worked as a consultant for the Hydra chess project. He concentrated on developing the opening book for Hydra, as well as creating test positions, until the discontinuation of the project in 2009.
Since the summer of 2006 he is married to the German chess master Anke Lutz. The couple has two daughters.
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