 Enders in 2016 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1963-02-02)2 February 1963 |
| Died | 2 February 2025(2025-02-02) (aged 62) Freyburg,Saxony-Anhalt, Germany |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Germany |
| Title | Grandmaster (1997) |
| Peak rating | 2535 (July 1997) |
Peter Enders (2 February 1963 – 2 February 2025) was a German chessGrandmaster (GM, 1997) who won theGerman Chess Championship (1994).
Peter Enders grew up inEast Germany and was considered one of the most talented young players there. During this time he played in numerous chess tournaments in Hungary and also played in the Hungarian chess league. Enders suffered greatly from the disputes with the East Germany chess association. Although he had achieved or far exceeded the required norms for the titleInternational Master (IM), the association did not award the title to theFIDE requested. In 1989 he was not admitted to the East German Chess Championship because of disputes about accommodation there (Enders wanted a single room). Since he was number three in the country at the time, he assumed he was entitled to it. Enders then attemptedsuicide.[1]
Only after thePeaceful Revolution did he gain a better chess footing in Germany; in 1990 he became German Blitz Chess Champion and in 1993 received the International Master (IM) title.[2][3] In the same year he won theGerman Chess Championship, which brought him the qualification for the FIDE World Chess Championship Zonal Tournament inPtuj and his first chess grandmaster norm. He finally received the title in 1997 after winning the grandmaster chess tournament inSchöneck together withNormunds Miezis at the end of 1996 and thus achieving his third and last norm.[4] In 1996 he also became German champion inrapid chess.
Enders died inFreyburg, Germany on 2 February 2025, his 62nd birthday.[5]
After theGerman reunification, Peter Enders played inChess Bundesliga from 1990 to 1993 for theMünchener SC 1836, from 1993 to 1995, in the 1998–99 season and from 2002 for theErfurter Schachklub (until 1995SV Erfurt West), from 1995 to 1998 forPSV Duisburg and in the 1999–2000 season forSK Passau several seasons in the 1st Chess Bundesliga, most recently in the 2009–10 season. In the Austrian Chess Bundesliga he played forSK Kufstein in the 1998–99 season.