Heinrich Wagner (chess player)
Heinrich Wagner (born August 9, 1888 in Hamburg ; † June 24, 1959 there ) was a German chess player .
Heinrich Wagner was a senior teacher by profession. After the First World War he played for the Kiel Chess Society from 1884 . In 1921 he won a championship tournament in Kiel ahead of Friedrich Sämisch , at the Chess Congress of the German Chess Federation in Frankfurt am Main in 1923 he took second place behind Ernst Grünfeld together with Ehrhardt Post . In 1925 he shared third place with Akiba Rubinstein at the German Individual Championship in Breslau , which Efim Bogoljubow won ahead of Aaron Nimzowitsch . In 1926 in Vienna he won together with Karl Gilg , in 1930 a tournament in Hamburg, in the same year he defeated Herbert Heinicke in a competition in Hamburg with 8.5: 3.5. For Germany he played at the Chess Olympiads in 1927 , 1928 , 1930 and 1931 . The German national team won the bronze medal with him in Hamburg in 1930.
In 1953 he was awarded the title of International Master (IM) by the World Chess Federation . The best historical Elo rating was 2585 for the year 1925. At that time, taking into account the dubious calculation bases of a historical Elo number, he was one of the world's top twenty chess players. In his honor, a Heinrich Wagner memorial tournament was played in Kiel in 1959 , which was won by the Danish IM Jens Enevoldsen ahead of Rudolf Teschner . Wagner owned one of the world's largest book collections on chess tournaments.
literature
- Wolfgang Kübel: The competition Heinrich Wagner-Heinicke, Hamburg 1930. Cologne 1974
- Alfred Diel : Four times on the Olympic team. In: Kaissiber , No. 5, 1998, pp. 63-64
Web links
- Tournament invitation Swinoujscie 1930 with all games of this tournament for replay ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Replayable chess games by Heinrich Wagner on 365Chess.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ German individual chess championship 1923 in Frankfurt / Main on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
- ↑ German individual chess championship 1925 in Breslau on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
- ↑ Heinrich Wagner's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 88
- ↑ Heinrich Wagner's historical Elo rating on chessmetrics.com (English)
- ↑ A short history of the Kiel Chess Society ( Memento from August 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wagner, Heinrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chess player |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1888 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1959 |
Place of death | Hamburg |