Georg Meier (chess player)
Georg Meier is a German grandmaster of chess. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2009.
In December 2009, Meier tied for 1st-4th places with Julio Granda, Viktor Láznička and Kiril Georgiev in the 19th Magistral Pamplona Tournament. In 2014, he shared second place with Peter Leko in the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, which was won by Fabiano Caruana. Meier won the main Grandmaster tournament at the 2017 Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem, ahead of Ukrainian Alexander Moiseenko.
In team events, he played for Germany in the Chess Olympiad, World Team Chess Championship, European Team Chess Championship and Mitropa Cup. His team won the gold medal in the 2011 European Team Championship in Porto Carras, Greece.
Since the season 2013/14, Georg Meier plays for the team OSG Baden-Baden in the chess Bundesliga.
