Thomas Luther started to play chess at the age of four.
12 Facts About Thomas Luther
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Thomas Luther won his third German national championship in 2006 in Osterburg in a tie-breaker with Vitaly Kunin and Artur Yusupov.
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Between 1998 and 2006 Thomas Luther was often part of the German selection representing Germany in various international team tournaments: in the Olympiads 1998 in Elista, 2000 in Istanbul, 2002 in Bled and 2006 in Turin.
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Thomas Luther played for Germany in the World Team Chess Championship of 2001 and the European Team Chess Championship of 2003 in Plovdiv.
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Thomas Luther, who suffers from dysmelia played at the 39th Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, 2010 first board for the IPCA and made 6.5 points out of 10.
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Thomas Luther is the head of the FIDE Commission on Disabled and played for the IPCA team once.
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Thomas Luther is head of the division for competitive chess in the German chess federation.
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Thomas Luther's style is tactically oriented, which makes him a formidable opponent for even the strongest player.
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The game was played in the penultimate round of the German championship 2002 and laid the ground for Thomas Luther' later winning the title.
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Thomas Luther tells to have taken a great amount of energy out of experiencing that he can be as good as others.
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Thomas Luther published various DVDs on opening theory and other topics.
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Thomas Luther is considered to be one of the leading experts on the French Defence, about which he published several times.