Ludwig Engels

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Ludwig Engels (born December 11, 1905 in Düsseldorf , † January 10, 1967 in São Paulo ) was a German chess player .

Life

His father Louis was born in Barmen on May 11, 1865 , but there is no evidence of a family relationship to the entrepreneur and philosopher Friedrich Engels . Ludwig Engels was a member of the Düsseldorf Chess Club (DSV 1854) from around 1922 to 1939 .

In the years 1931 to 1934 he played three competitions against Georg Kieninger , which was very beneficial for his development as a master player. One of his greatest chess successes was the 2nd place at the International Tournament in Dresden in 1936, where he was behind Alexander Alekhine - whom he defeated in direct comparison - but ahead of Géza Maróczy , Gideon Ståhlberg , Efim Bogoljubow , Friedrich Sämisch , Paul Keres and others. a. landed. In the same year he belonged to the German selection at the unofficial Chess Olympiad in Munich , which took 3rd place behind Hungary and Poland . In the winter of 1936/37 he worked as a chess trainer in Iceland.

In 1939, Ludwig Engels became Olympic champion in Buenos Aires with the German (actually: “Greater German”, i.e. German-Austrian) team; With his result (+12 = 4 −0) he was the most successful German player and the most successful player on the third board. When the Second World War broke out , the entire team ( Eliskases , Michel , Engels, Becker , Reinhardt ) decided to stay in South America.

He spent the war years in southern Brazil. In 1946 he settled in São Paulo, where he and Rabar won a grandmaster tournament in 1952, ahead of Eliskases and Rossetto . In 1957 he was fifth in the South American zone tournament .

The 1902 Sao Paulo chess club ("CXSP"), in which Engels was a coach, still organizes an annual tournament in his memory. As part of the 150th anniversary of the DSV 1854 in 2004, an annual Ludwig Engels memorial tournament was also launched here.

Engels achieved his best historical rating of 2636 in March 1941. In 1940, according to these calculations, he was number 19 in the world rankings .

literature

  • Alfred Diel : Never forget your home. Schach-Report , Issue 1, 1996, p. 64.
  • Elke Hahnen, Friedrich-Karl Hebeker, Erich Noldus: Chronicle of the Düsseldorf Chess Club 1854. Self-published, Düsseldorf 2006, 152 pages.
  • Friedrich-Karl Hebeker: Ludwig Engels. Kaissiber , Issue 25, 2006, pp. 58-68.
  • Friedrich-Karl Hebeker, Willibald Müller: Ludwig Engels in Brazil. Kaissiber , issue 27, 2007, pp. 70-72.
  • Friedrich-Karl Hebeker: From the Rhine to São Paulo. Ludwig Engels (1905–1967). Chaturanga publishing house, Neunkirchen 2016. ISBN 978-3-944158-09-9 .
  • Friedrich-Karl Hebeker: "... nobody was up to his 'cheating'". KARL , Heft 3, 2019, pp. 38-43.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The international tournament 1936 in Dresden on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  2. ↑ Ludwig Engels' results at unofficial Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Ludwig Engels' results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Engels, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1967
Place of death São Paulo