Helmut Pfleger (born August 6, 1943) is a German chessgrandmaster and author. He was one of the most promising chess players in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1977 until 2005, Pfleger hosted a series of chess programs on German public TV, including Chess of the Grandmasters, often together with grandmaster Vlastimil Hort. By profession, he is a doctor of medicine.
He took 1st at Maputo 1973, tied for 1st–2nd at Polanica-Zdrój 1971, tied for 1st–2nd at Montilla 1973, tied for 2nd–3rd at Montilla 1974, tied for 2nd–5th at Manila 1975, tied for 2nd–3rd at Havana 1982, was 4th at Royan 1988.
Pfleger played for Germany in the Chess Olympiads of 1964, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1980 and 1982. At the Tel Aviv Olympiad of 1964, he was awarded the gold medal for best performance on fourth board and a bronze medal for his contribution to the team’s overall performance.[1] He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1975.
On the April 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2477, although he has been virtually inactive since 1990.
Pfleger, Helmut; Darga, Klaus (1983). Die Besten Partien Deutscher Schachgrossmeister: Klaus Darga, Hans-J. Hecht, Robert Hubner, Barbara Hund, Erik Lobron, Helmut Pfleger, Lothar Schmid, Wolfgang Unzicker (in German). Falken. ISBN3806841217.
Pfleger, Helmut; Metzing, Horst (1984). Schach: Spiel, Sport, Wissenschaft, Kunst (in German). Hoffmann und Campe. ISBN3455082289.
Pfleger, Helmut; Kishon, Ephraim; Weiner, Ossi (1986). Der Schachcomputer: Gegner Und Freund (in German). Nymphenburger. ISBN3485016969.
Pfleger is inactive at FIDE because he has not made games with Elosince 1999.
He participated in the chess olympics 1974 in Nizza as well as in European or world championships.
Pfleger organises Medical Chess Championships in Germany for >30 years now. That association is very radical denying to use their photos, more unfriendly than anybody in THIS web, but you can see lots of the photos in the Deutsches Ärzteblatt: https://www.aerzteblatt.de/search?q=schachmeisterschaft
