Ralf Lau
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 Ralf Lau facts

• Ralf Lau began his chess career in his hometown of Bremen
• He played for Delmenhorster SK During the mid-1970s, he participated several times in the finals of the German team championship with them
• In the late 1970s, he moved to the Solingen SG 1868, for which he played until 1993 and again from 1994 to 1998
• With Solingen he was in 1980, 1981, 1987, 1988 and 1997 German team champion and won the 1990 European Club Cup
• In addition, Lau was in the Bundesliga for the SC Stadthagen (in the 1993/94 season), the Lübeck chess club of 1873 (in the season 1999/2000) and the SC Kreuzberg (2002-2006) active
• In the Austrian state league and Bundesliga he played in the 1999/2000 season for SK Hietzing and from 2002 to 2004 for SV Tschaturanga
• In the 1980s, he began a professional career and had many successes: in 1982 he became international champion, in 1986 appointed him the World Chess Federation at the Congress in Dubai for Grand Master
• He won in 1985 and 1986 in Budapest, was second in 1985 in New York City and 1986 in Solingen
• In 1987 in Bad Neuenahr he was tied with Vlastimil Hort and was (after puncture and scoring) finished second in the German Championship
• In the championship in 1989 in Bad Neuenahr he finished third, behind Hort and Schmittdiel