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Niclas Huschenbeth | |||||||
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Country | Germany | ||||||
Born | Hann. Münden, Germany | 29 February 1992||||||
Title | Grandmaster (2012) | ||||||
FIDE rating | 2593 (February 2025) | ||||||
Peak rating | 2628 (November 2019) | ||||||
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Years active | 2012–present | ||||||
Subscribers | 112 thousand [1] | ||||||
Total views | 36.5 million [1] | ||||||
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Niclas Huschenbeth (born 29 February 1992) is a German chess grandmaster and a two-time German Chess Champion (2010, 2019). [2] [3] He played in the Chess Olympiads of 2008 and 2010. [4]
Huschenbeth won the German championship in 2010. [2] He came first in the 2011 HSK Großmeisterturnier in Hamburg. [5] He came third in the 2013 National Chess Congress in Philadelphia. [6]
In March 2016, Huschenbeth earned clear first place in the Charlotte Chess Center's GM Norm Invitational held in Charlotte, North Carolina with an undefeated score of 7.0/9. [7]
In 2019, Huschenbeth won the German championship for the second time with 8 out of 9 points, beating Dmitrij Kollars due to the higher average Elo rating of his opponents. [8] He tied 3rd to 11th place in the 2019 European Individual Championship with Kacper Piorun, David Anton Guijarro, Ferenc Berkes, Sergei Movsesian, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Grigoriy Oparin, Maxim Rodshtein, and Eltaj Safarli. [9]
Huschenbeth has worked as a second for Hikaru Nakamura since 2019, including for the 2022 Candidates Tournament in Madrid and for the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024. [10]