German chess grandmaster

Horst Robert Rittner (16 July 1930 – 14 June 2021) was a German correspondence chess Grandmaster. He was born in Breslau, Weimar Germany, and was the sixth ICCF World Champion, between 1968 and 1971. He also edited the German magazine Schach.

References

• Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1996) . The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd:ed.). Oxford University Press. p.:343. ISBN:0-19-280049-3.

External links

• Horst Rittner player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Rittner at chessmail.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-05-15)
• Nachruf bei ChessBase von André Schulz, Obituary – 18 June 2021
• Nachricht beim Deutschen Schachbund, News – 19 June 2021
• Horst Rittner player details at ICCF