Role Chess Player Name Friedrich Baumbach | ICCF World Champion 1983–89 Title ICCF Grandmaster | |
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Full name Friedrich Fritz Baumbach Books Who is the Champion of the Champions? | ||
Dr Friedrich (Fritz) Baumbach (born September 8, 1935 in Weimar, Germany) is a German International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the eleventh ICCF World Champion, 1983–89. He was also East German Champion in 1970.
He tied for second place behind Mikhail Umansky in a "champion of champions" tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee. This was a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions.
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