Jutta Hempel
Jutta Hempel (born September 27, 1960, in Flensburg[1]) is a German chess prodigy who retired from competitive chess as a young adult.[2]
Chess career
Hempel showed remarkable aptitude for the game at a young age - by age three she could watch a game of chess and replay it from memory, and by age four she was playing competitively at the Youth Center in Flensburg. By the age of five, Hempel was the top junior player in Flensburg. On her sixth birthday, Hempel performed the impressive feat of scoring 9.5-2.5 in a four-hour
Personal life
As an adult, Hempel attended business school in Kiel and worked for a bank for a time. She married in 1986 and declined to pursue a career in chess.[4]
References
- ^ Revista Ajedrez (Argentina), July 1967, page 235
- ^ ChessBase: The Beth Harmon that Almost was
- ^ The chess games of Jutta Hempel. ChessGames.com. Accessed October 18, 2010.
- ^ Edward Winter, C.N. 7413, Jutta Hempel, 22 December 2011
External links
- Footage of Jutta Hempel at British Pathé
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