Lara Schulze

Lara Schulze
Lara Schulze
	Lara Schulze in 2019
Country	Germany
Born	21 May 2002 (age 22)
Title	FIDE Master (2019); Woman International Master (2021)
Peak rating	2345 (September 2019)

Lara Schulze (born 21 May 2002) is a German chess Woman International Master who won the German Women's Chess Championship in 2022.

Biography

At the age of eight, Schulze learned to play chess with SK Lehrte. In the Chess Women's Bundesliga Season 2013/14 she played for the first time. In the years that followed, she became German chess champion and European chess champion several times in her respective age group.^[1]^[2]

At the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 and the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2021 Schulze played for the German national chess team. Together with Elisabeth Pähtz and Josefine Heinemann she runs the Twitch channel Women's Chess Experts.^[3]

In 2021 Schulze switched to SV Werder Bremen and is coached there by Jonathan Carlstedt and Dmitrij Kollars. She is the only woman part of the Bremen squad for the Chess Bundesliga Season 2021/22.^[4]

Schulze did her Abitur at the Gymnasium Lehrte in 2021. She lives in Hanover.^[5]

Achievements

2014: German Chess Champion (U12, girls)
2015: German Chess Champion (U14, girls)
2016: European Chess Champion (U14, girls)
2016: Women's FIDE Master (WFM)
2017: German Chess Champion (U16, girls)
2018: German Chess Champion (U16, girls)
2019: German Chess Champion (U18, girls)
2019: FIDE Master (FM)
2021: European Chess Champion (U20, girls)
2021: German Women's Rapid Chess Champion
2021: Woman International Master (WIM)
2022: German Chess Champion
2022: German Rapid Chess Champion

References

^ "Darum legt eine Lehrterin nach dem Abi jetzt ein "Schachjahr" ein". Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.
^ "Die Schachbloggerin (FM Lara Schulze)". Schachgeflüster.
^ Frauenschachexperten
^ "Läuft bei Lara" (in German). Perlen vom Bodensee.
^ "Allein unter Männern: Diese Werder-Spielerin will Schach-Profi werden". buten un binnen. 2021-11-15.

External links

Lara Schulze rating card at FIDE
Lara Schulze player profile and games at Chessgames.com
Lara Schulze chess games at 365Chess.com
Lara Schulze's website
FM Lara Schulze at Lichess

[1] "Darum legt eine Lehrterin nach dem Abi jetzt ein "Schachjahr" ein". Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.

[2] "Die Schachbloggerin (FM Lara Schulze)". Schachgeflüster.

[3] Frauenschachexperten

[4] "Läuft bei Lara" (in German). Perlen vom Bodensee.

[5] "Allein unter Männern: Diese Werder-Spielerin will Schach-Profi werden". buten un binnen. 2021-11-15.

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