Hanna Marie Klek | |
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![]() Hanna Marie Klek in 2012 | |
Country | Germany |
Born | Nürtingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 11 January 1995
Title | Woman Grandmaster (2017) |
Peak rating | 2376 (January 2017) |
Hanna Marie Klek (born 11 January 1995) is a German chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2017). She won German Women's Chess Championship (2013).
In 1999 her family - Hanna Marie Klek has two sisters - moved to Erlangen.[1] Her father Konrad Klek is the church musician, theologian and university teacher. After graduating from the Ohm-Gymnasium in 2012, she studied mathematics at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg[2] and currently psychology at the Otto-Friedrich-University in Bamberg.
Hanna Marie Klek learned to play chess at the age of eight. She was multiple German Girls Chess Championships winner: U12 (2006,[3] 2007[4]), U14 (2008[5]) and U16 (2011[6]). In 2011 she was 2nd (behind Nastassia Ziaziulkina) at the World Youth Chess Championship in Girls U16 age group in Caldas Novas and 5th at the German Women's Chess Championships in Bonn.[7]
In 2013 in Bad Wiessee Hanna Marie Klek won the German Women's Chess Championship.[8] In 2021 she won the German Master chess tournament for women.
Hanna Marie Klek played for Germany in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[9]
Hanna Marie Klek played for Germany in the European Women's Team Chess Championships:
Hanna Marie Klek played for Germany in the Women's Chess Mitropa Cups:[12]
In 2017, she was awarded the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title.