# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horst-rittner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:49:30.975Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horst-rittner"
name: "Horst Rittner"
slug: "horst-rittner"
description: "Horst Robert Rittner 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."
tagline: "German chess grandmaster (1930–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rittner_horst_20081025_berlin_bundesliga.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1930-07-16"
deathDate: "2021-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.23076923076923
  historical:           6.335745333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Риттнер, Хорст"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "هورست ريتنير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Rittner"
    title: "Horst Rittner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Rittner"
    title: "Horst Rittner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Rittner"
    title: "Horst Rittner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsts_Ritners"
    title: "Horsts Ritners"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Rittner"
    title: "Horst Rittner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97960"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump