- Ludwig Schmitt
Ludwig Schmitt (? – ?) was a German chess master.
Schmitt lived in
Breslau ,Prussian Silesia . He won theSilesian Chess Congress in 1927 and 1933, and took 6th in 1930 (Heinz Foerder won), and 5th place in 1939 (Erich Weinitschke won) in these events. [ [http://www.astercity.net/~vistula/fredvandervliet.htm Chess In Former German, Now Polish Territories - Fred Van Der Vliet ] ] He was a Champion of Sachsen in 1929, 1932, 1933, and of Bayern in 1953. [ [http://www.tomaatnet.nl/~h.christen/SORotterdam/clubblad/januari%202006.pdf Inhoud ] ]He took 13th at Magdeburg 1927 (
DSB Congress ,Rudolf Spielmann won), [ [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1927magdeburg.htm magdeburgo ] ] tied for 8-10th at Brno 1931 (Salo Flohr won), [ [http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables2.htm Nice 1931 ] ] took 18th at Bad Aachen 1934 (2ndGerman Chess Championship ,Carl Carls won), [ [http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables5.htm GER-ch 2nd Aachen 1934 ] ] tied for 5-7th at Bad Oeynhausen 1937 (4th GER-ch,Georg Kieninger won), [http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables8.htm] tied for 12-14th at Bad Oeynhausen 1938 (5th GER-ch,Erich Eliskases won), [ [http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables9.htm Amsterdam (NED-ch10th) 1938 ] ]After
World War II , he took 16th at Augsburg 1946 (Wolfgang Unzicker won), [ [http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/Tables%2017.htm 1946 ] ] shared 1st with Unzicker at Leipzig 1953 (15th GER-ch) and lost a play-off match for the title to him (0.5 : 3.5) in January 1954. [http://www.schachverein-goerlitz.de/Turniere/Aeskulapturniere/Festschrift2003.pdf]References
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