Robert Rabiega
Robert Rabiega (born 1 February 1971) is a German chess Grandmaster (GM, 2002) who won German Chess Championship (2000). Biography In 1987 Robert Rabiega represented the West Germany at the World Youth Chess Championship in U18 age group that were held in Innsbruck. In 1991 he won in Berlin, in 1993 he took 2nd place in the Open chess tournament in Dresden and triumphed in Poznań. A year later in the next Poznań tournament he shared 2nd place with Paweł Blehm. In 1996 Robert Rabiega achieved his first success at the German Chess Championship with his 6th place in Dudweiler. The following year he won the Spree-Open and the round-robin tournament in Budapest (together with József Horváth), he also won the Berlin City Chess Championship. In 2000 Robert Rabiega triumphed again at the Berlin City Chess Championship and achieved the greatest success of his career when he won the gold medal at the German Chess Championship in Heringsdorf. In 2002 he took second place (behind Arkadij Naiditsch) at the B-Tournament in Essen, in 2004 he came 6th at the 75. German Individual Chess Championship in Höckendorf and won the Berliner Open. In the same year he performed in Barlinek at