She attended the Landrat-Lucas-Gymnasium in Opladen (Abitur 1981), studied Jurisprudence for a few semesters in Cologne, completed an apprenticeship as a social security clerk and works for the Techniker Krankenkasse.

They (Barbara and Isabel Hund, as well as Karin Seiffert and Regina Berglitz) played under the name Hamkusmar and were able to beat the team of the German Chess Federation (Klaus Darga, Sergiu Samarian, Alfred Kinzel and Heinz Hohlfeld) place.

On June 5, 1985, Der Spiegel organized a simultaneous game of the world champion Garry Kasparov in Hamburg, in which, among others, Egon Bahr, Klaus von Dohnanyi, Roswin Finkenzeller, Johannes Gross, Felix Magath and Ulrich Wildgruber, as well as the four siblings Susanne, Barbara, Isabel and Dorothee Hund took part.

[13] When the BSG Textil Cottbus visited the Essener Schachgesellschaft 04 in 1990, Isabel Hund (West Germany chess women's champion 1989) won against Kerstin Kunze (East Germany chess women's champion 1989).

[14] Isabel Hund won the finals of the eighth and ninth TeleChess Championship[15][16] and became NRW champion in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 2004.