21 Facts About Falko Bindrich

Falko Bindrich is the No 7 ranked German player as of October 2017.

Falko Bindrich earned his International Master title in 2006 and his grandmaster title a year later.

Falko Bindrich played in the 2008 Chess Olympiad, held in Dresden, where his German team placed 13th.

Falko Bindrich has competed in several other prestigious chess events, such as the 2008 Bundesliga and the 2010 Chess Olympiad.

Falko Bindrich was born on 17 October 1990 in Zittau, Germany, to parents Zdena and Oswald Bindrich.

In 1993, at the age of three, Falko Bindrich was taught chess by his brother and soon after, his father, Oswald, enrolled him the Oberland Chess Club.

In 2002, Falko Bindrich defeated Hungarian International Master Attila Parkanyi and in September, defeated Swedish grandmaster Tiger Hillarp Persson in Furth at the Pyramid Cup.

In 2003, Falko Bindrich became the youngest German player to receive the FIDE master title, after crossing 2300 fide.

In late 2003, Falko Bindrich came in fifth in the German Youth Championship U18 which got him elected to the German Under-18 team.

Falko Bindrich gained his first International Master norm in 2004 for the B national team in the Mitropa Cup.

Later that year Falko Bindrich supported the German Cancer Society by holding a simultaneous exhibition.

Falko Bindrich settled first place in his first adult event in the early January 2006 Staufer Open and a few days later in Geneva, he earned his 3rd and final IM norm, and was awarded the International Master title.

Falko Bindrich gained his second GM norm in the European Championships 2007.

Falko Bindrich played for Germany in the 2008 Chess Olympiad, held in Dresden, where his team placed 13th out of 146 overall teams.

In 2011, Falko Bindrich became CEO of the Amateur Chess Organization, alongside international master Tobias Hirneise.

Falko Bindrich refused to accept the penalty and withdrew from the tournament shortly after, and went on to blog about the double standards of arbiters, claiming that he had seen several other players arrive late in the previous rounds, and no penalty was issued to them.

In Mulheim, in the first round of the 2012 German Bundesliga on 20 October 2012, Falko Bindrich defeated the strong 2600+ Elo grandmaster Pavel Tregubov in an English Symmetrical: Botvinnik system.

Falko Bindrich refused to hand it over, saying that there was private information on the phone, and he was forfeited the game.

Falko Bindrich claimed to not use the bathroom any more than usual and that several others did so too without penalty.

Falko Bindrich denied that he went to the toilet on his turn, saying that there were witnesses there who could confirm this.

Falko Bindrich issued a statement saying that he did not accept the decision of the board, and issued an appeal against the decision of the President of the German Chess Federation.