Dr. Thomas Marschner, born in 1967, is a physicist and works in technology development for the production of solar modules. He plays chess for almost 40 years, has an Elo of 2000 and plays for his home club from Eppstein in the Taunus in the Hessian Association league. He lives in Schwäbisch Hall and reports preferably from the chess Bundesliga and the women's Bundesliga. Apart from playing chess, he also plays tennis at the association level, enjoys taking pictures and runs his own website at www.thomas-marschner.de