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GM Rainer Polzin

Full name

Rainer Polzin

Born

1/1/1971 (age 53)‎

Place of birth

Federation

Germany

Rating

Bio

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

Ruy López Opening: Morphy Defense, Closed, Yates, Bogoljubov Variation (12 games)

Closed Sicilian Defense: Grand Prix Variation (9 games)

French Defense: Winawer, Advance, Poisoned Pawn Variation (8 games)

Sicilian Defense: Kan, Knight Variation (8 games)

Closed Sicilian Defense: Traditional Line (6 games)

Black Pieces

Sicilian Defense: Open, Dragon, Rauzer Variation (9 games)

Modern Defense with 1.e4 (8 games)

Modern Defense: Standard Line (8 games)

King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation (7 games)

King's Indian Defense: Orthodox, Glek Defense (7 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Rainer Polzin (2402) Henrik Hesse (2303)	1-0	53	2024
Rainer Polzin (2402) Emil Schmidek (2438)	1-0	35	2024
Rainer Polzin (2413) Hussain Besou (2349)	1-0	30	2024
Rainer Polzin (2401) Raphael Lagunow (2421)	0-1	38	2024
Rainer Polzin (2413) Andrey Sumets (2521)	0-1	28	2024
Rainer Polzin (2402) Marco Baldauf (2478)	½-½	22	2024
Rainer Polzin (2413) Giorgi Giorgadze (2232)	½-½	33	2024
Rainer Polzin (2413) Christian Polster (2269)	½-½	24	2024
Rainer Polzin (2401) Michael Kotyk (2074)	1-0	60	2023
Rainer Polzin (2431) Rene Wittke (2317)	1-0	23	2023

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