During the sixteenth ICCF World Championship, he had amassed an unassailable 11 points out of 15 games with one game remaining. Hamarat was deadly on the black side of the Sicilian Sveshnikov, beating former CC World Champion Horst Rittner of Germany and Greek International Master Spyros Kofidis with it. At one time, Hamarat was supposed not to have lost a single game as White in over 40 years. However, this retroactively ceased to be the case, as correspondence chess games date from their year of initiation, and Hamarat eventually lost games playing with the white pieces against Edgar Prang (started in 2001) and Hans Marcus Elwert (started in 2002), though he apparently resigned these only after he became World Champion in January 2004. In 'over-the-board' chess, he played in the finals of the Turkish championships three times. In Vienna, he played in the top league. But since 1963 his main interest has been correspondence chess, "because I am a perfectionist", he says. In 1997, he earned the title of International Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess.
Hamarat also plays backgammon professionally. He is one of the top players in Austria. He won several titles in international backgammon tournaments. Besides, he is also an expert in jazz music, and acts as a jazz DJ in Vienna.
The Austrian mail authority issued a personified postage stamp with his picture in his honor. The Wiener Zeitung, an important newspaper, named him as the 'Viennese of the month'.
tunç, hamarat, born, december, 1946, turkish, chess, player, living, austria, sixteenth, iccf, world, champion, 1999, 2004, countryaustriaborn, 1946, december, 1946, istanbul, turkeytitleiccf, grandmaster, 1997, iccf, world, champion1999, 2004iccf, rating2502,. Tunc Hamarat born December 1 1946 is a Turkish chess player living in Austria and the sixteenth ICCF World Champion 1999 2004 Tunc HamaratCountryAustriaBorn 1946 12 01 December 1 1946 age 77 Istanbul TurkeyTitleICCF Grandmaster 1997 ICCF World Champion1999 2004ICCF rating2502 October 2021 ICCF peak rating2658 October 2002 Born in Istanbul Hamarat attended the Austrian St Georgs Kolleg high school in Istanbul and then graduated in Physics from the Middle East Technical University ODTU in Ankara In 1972 he moved to Vienna Austria for his Master s degree in Physics Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology there In 1976 he went temporarily back to Izmir Turkey for military service Since 1972 he has been living in Austria and has been an Austrian citizen since 1994 Recently he is working for a telecommunication company in Vienna During the sixteenth ICCF World Championship he had amassed an unassailable 11 points out of 15 games with one game remaining Hamarat was deadly on the black side of the Sicilian Sveshnikov beating former CC World Champion Horst Rittner of Germany and Greek International Master Spyros Kofidis with it At one time Hamarat was supposed not to have lost a single game as White in over 40 years However this retroactively ceased to be the case as correspondence chess games date from their year of initiation and Hamarat eventually lost games playing with the white pieces against Edgar Prang started in 2001 and Hans Marcus Elwert started in 2002 though he apparently resigned these only after he became World Champion in January 2004 In over the board chess he played in the finals of the Turkish championships three times In Vienna he played in the top league But since 1963 his main interest has been correspondence chess because I am a perfectionist he says In 1997 he earned the title of International Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess Hamarat also plays backgammon professionally He is one of the top players in Austria He won several titles in international backgammon tournaments Besides he is also an expert in jazz music and acts as a jazz DJ in Vienna The Austrian mail authority issued a personified postage stamp with his picture in his honor The Wiener Zeitung an important newspaper named him as the Viennese of the month External links editTunc Hamarat player details at ICCF Tunc Hamarat player profile and games at Chessgames comPreceded by nbsp Gert Jan Timmerman World Correspondence Chess Champion1999 2004 Succeeded by nbsp Ivar Bern Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tunc Hamarat amp oldid 1090316689, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
