Arno Nickel

[1] Since 1983 he has edited the German Schach-Kalender, as well as the "Schach-Journal" together with Alexander Koblencs, former trainer of Mikhail Tal, from 1991 to 1994.

He has published numerous books on chess, usually in German language with the exception of Robert Hübner's "Twenty-five Annotated Games" (1996).

In a correspondence match lasting many months, he won two games and drew a third against Hydra, the most powerful chess supercomputer in the world at that time (2005).

On February 16, 2009 Nickel won the Simon Webb Memorial, a category 15 correspondence chess event with 13 grandmasters.

In 2011 Nickel won the gold medal with the German Olympic team in the Final of the 17th ICCF Correspondence Chess Olympiad.