Willi Schlage

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Willi Schlage (born December 24, 1888 ; † May 5, 1940 in Berlin ) was a German chess master and coach.

Life

Schlage was an insurance agent by profession . Because of an injury in the First World War , he was in the hospital from 1917 to 1918. According to Helmut Wieteck, the Berlin chess master stayed in Africa for a while before the Second World War , where he worked as a chess teacher, among other things.

In 1940 he died of a stroke . His grave is in the cemetery of the Sankt-Thomas-Gemeinde in Neukölln .

Schlage dealt intensively with the chess theory. In doing so, he made use of his extensive chess library .

Tournament chess

Schlage became a member of the Berlin Chess Society . In 1910 he took part in the main tournament B of the German Chess Federation in Hamburg, but could not qualify for the winning group. He took part in German championships three times . In 1921 he was third in Hamburg behind Ehrhardt Post and Friedrich Sämisch , in 1922 in Bad Oeynhausen he was third to fifth. In 1935 in Aachen he was less successful when Kurt Richter was first.

Between 1920 and 1934 he took part in the Berlin championships five times , in 1921 and 1926 he came first here. He was called up to the national team six times .

His best historical rating was 2517, which he achieved in August 1923.

Trainer

Schlage taught and promoted many young German players, such as Klaus Junge , Wolfgang Unzicker , Edith Keller . In 1935 he became Reich trainer of the Greater German Chess Federation . Together with Alekhine and Bogolyubov , he prepared the German team for the (unofficial) Chess Olympiad in Munich in 1936 . He then supported Kurt Richter with his two-volume tournament book Schach-Olympia München 1936 .

Honors

In 1979 the African Republic of Mali issued a chess stamp with the portrait of Willi Schlag. The stamp is part of a series "Grand Masters of Chess", which shows him alongside the better-known Alekhine , Bogolyubov and Janowski .

The role Roesch - Schlage, Hamburg 1910 , which was reenacted in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, became famous.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Wieteck: Schach-Mekka Berlin in the "roaring twenties" , Rochade Europa, Maintal 1995, p. 14. (There is no evidence for this claim.)
  2. ↑ German individual chess championship 1921 in Hamburg on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  3. ↑ German individual championship 1922 in Bad Oeynhausen on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  4. ↑ German individual chess championship 1935 in Aachen on TeleSchach (table and games)
personal data
SURNAME Hit, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess master and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1888
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1940
Place of death Berlin