Edmund Adam

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Edmund Adam (born May 18, 1894 in Sonneberg , † January 18, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German correspondence chess player and chess official.

From 1946 to 1956 Adam was the first president of the Association of German Correspondence Chess Friends or, after it was renamed, the German Correspondence Chess Federation (BdF) .

Since he had won the last IFSB national championship before the war in 1939, Adam received an invitation to the finals of the first correspondence chess world championship and took seventh place among the 14 participants. One of his opponents in this tournament was Graham Russell Mitchell , who was in an exposed position at MI5 . From his estate, correspondence from Adam with moves encoded in correspondence chess notation has recently come to the public. This led to speculation in the scandal press about secret service activities.

Adam was a doctor of medicine.

literature

  • Fritz Baumbach; Robin Smith; Rolf Knobel: Who is the Champion of the Champions? - Correspondence Chess - . Exzelsior Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-935-80004-4 (table of the 1st World Cup on p. 203)
  • Otto Borik; Joachim Petzold and others: Meyers Schach Lexikon - chess knowledge for everyone . Meyers Lexikonverlag 1993, p. 10, ISBN 3-411-08811-7

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Joseph Diemer : German correspondence chess meeting 1950. In: Der Schachspiegel , Issue 1950/8, p.118-121
  2. ^ Tim Harding : The Games of the World Correspondence Chess Championships I-IX . Batsford, London 1979, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Final table of the 1st World Correspondence Chess Championship (English)
  4. ↑ Postcards Containing Cold War spy messages unearthed (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Adam, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German correspondence chess player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonneberg
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1958
Place of death Frankfurt am Main