Klaus Junge
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Full name | Klaus Junge |
Country | Germany |
Born | Concepción, Chile | 1 January 1924
Died | 17 April 1945 Welle, Germany | (aged 21)
Klaus Junge (1 January 1924 – 17 April 1945) was one of the youngest Chilean-German
Biography
Junge was born into a
On 11–20 August 1939, he, along with Wolfgang Unzicker (14 years old), Edith Keller (17), Rudolf Kunath (15) and Karl Krbavic (17), played in Fürstenwalde (Jugendschachwoche) near Berlin.[2] In 1941, at the age of 17, Klaus Junge was considered one of the strongest players in Germany. In 1941, he won the championship of Hamburg. In May 1941, he won at Bad Elster (qualifying German championship). In August 1941, he tied for first with Paul Felix Schmidt at Bad Oeynhausen (the eighth German Championship), although he lost a playoff match against Schmidt for the title at Bromberg (+0 –3 =1). In October 1941, he took fourth place, behind Alexander Alekhine, Schmidt, and Efim Bogoljubow, at Kraków/Warsaw (the second General Government chess tournament championship).[3]
In January 1942, Junge won the Dresden tournament. In 1942, he took second place, behind
World War II cut Junge's chess career short. Klaus Junge, whose father had been a member of the
In 1946, Regensburg hosted the first Klaus Junge Memorial. The event was won by
Notable games
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- Kurt Richter vs Klaus Junge, Bad Oeynhausen 1941, GER-ch, Trompowsky Attack, A45, 0–1
- Klaus Junge vs Paul Mross, Krakow 1941, Nimzo-Indian, Rubinstein Variation, E47, 1–0
- Alexander Alekhine vs Klaus Junge, Salzburg 1942, Semi-Slav Defense, Marshall Gambit, D31, 0–1
- Klaus Junge vs Čeněk Kottnauer, Prague 1942, Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, D46, 1–0
- Klaus Junge vs Emil Josef Diemer, XVII.corr. tournament 1942–43, King's Gambit Accepted, C34, 1–0
- Klaus Junge vs Walter Sahlmann, Hamburg 1944, Sicilian, Scheveningen Variation, B84, 1–0
Further reading
- Helmut Riedl: Das Leben und Schaffen von Klaus Junge. Unterhaching 1995. ISBN 3-9804896-0-4
References
Notes
- ^ Werner Brähler: Erinnerungen an den Reichsarbeitsdienst 1943.
- ^ ChessBase.com - Chess News - Wolfgang Unzicker turns eighty
- ^ 1941 Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 1942 Archived 7 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Edmund Bruns: "Nationalsozialismus, Schach, Klaus Junge". Retrieved 6 September 2016. [dead link]
- ^ "Chessville - Three Early Games of Klaus Junge Analyzed - by Robert Tuohey". Archived from the original on 17 January 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2014. (Contains a mistake: Klaus Junge was actually not a member of the SS.)
- ^ 1946 Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Klaus Junge player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Photographs of Klaus Junge