Together with the girls from North Rhine-Westphalia, Ute Späte won the German state championships for girls in 1978 in Schwäbisch Gmünd[1] and 1979 in Dernau.[2]
Ute Späte in her first West Germany Women's Chess Championship in 1984
At the eighth German championship for girls in 1981 in Bitburg she took 4th place.[3]
Ute Späte in her winner West Germany Women's Chess Championship in 1987
Three years later, Ute Späte won the West Germany Women's Chess Championship in 1987 in Bad Lauterberg ahead of Anja Dahlgrün.[6]
At the end of the 1980s, Späte played for SC Kreuzberg, for whom she also played as a substitute in the season 1987/88 in the 1. Chess Women's Bundesliga was reported, but remained without action. She won the Berlin Women's Chess Championship in 1989.[7]