Horst Rittner

{{Short description|German chess grandmaster (1930–2021)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox chess player | name = Horst Rittner | image = Rittner horst 20081025 berlin bundesliga.jpg | caption = Rittner in 2008 | full_name = Horst Robert Rittner | country = Germany | birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|7|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Breslau, Germany (today Wrocław, Poland) | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|6|14|1930|7|16|df=y}} | death_place = |title = ICCF Grandmaster (1961) | ICCFworldchampion = 1968–1971 | rating = | peakrating = }}

'''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== *{{cite book |last1=Hooper |first1=David |authorlink1=David Vincent Hooper |last2=Whyld |first2=Kenneth |authorlink2=Kenneth Whyld |title=The Oxford Companion to Chess |publisher=Oxford University Press |edition=2nd |year=1996 |orig-date=First pub. 1992 |page=343 |isbn=0-19-280049-3}}

==External links== {{cc}} * {{Chessgames player|43498}} * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515042129/http://www.chessmail.com/players/rittner.htm |title=Rittner at chessmail.com}} * [https://de.chessbase.com/post/horst-rittner-gestorben Nachruf bei ChessBase von André Schulz], Obituary – 18 June 2021 * [https://www.schachbund.de/news/horst-rittner.html Nachricht beim Deutschen Schachbund], News – 19 June 2021 * {{ICCF}}

{{s-start}} {{succession box | before = {{flagicon|United States}} Hans Berliner | title = World Correspondence Chess Champion | years = 1968–1971 | after = {{flagicon|Soviet Union}} Yakov Estrin }} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rittner, Horst}} Category:1930 births Category:2021 deaths Category:20th-century German chess players Category:Correspondence chess grandmasters Category:World Correspondence Chess Champions Category:Chess players from Wrocław Category:People from the Province of Lower Silesia