Paul Felix Schmidt

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Paul Felix Schmidt
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International Master
(1950)

Paul Felix Schmidt (20 August [O.S. 7 August] 1916 – 11 August 1984) was an Estonian and German chess player, writer and chemist.

Biography

Schmidt was born in 1916, in Narva (then Russian Empire), two years before Estonia became an independent country. He excelled in chess from an early age. In June 1935, Schmidt won, ahead of Paul Keres, at a nationwide tournament in Tallinn. In May 1936, he drew a match against Keres (+3 –3 =1) at Pärnu. In 1936, he won the 8th Estonian Championship at Tallinn. In December 1936, he placed 2nd, behind Keres, at Tallinn. In July 1937, he won Estonia's first-ever international tournament at Pärnu, ahead of two world title contenders, Salo Flohr and Keres, as well as Gideon Ståhlberg.[1] In 1937, he won at Tallinn (9th EST–ch).

In August 1937, he played for Estonia (2nd board) at the 7th Chess Olympiad in Stockholm (+4 –4 =8). In June 1938, he tied for 8th-10th at Noordwijk. The event was won by Erich Eliskases. In August–September 1939, he played for Estonia (3rd board) at the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires (+2 –5 =6). Estonia took 3rd place, behind Germany and Poland.[2]

Schmidt emigrated from Estonia to Germany in the autumn of 1939. In August 1940, he took 2nd, behind

Bromberg.[3] In October 1941, he tied for 1st with Alexander Alekhine at Kraków/Warsaw (the 2nd General Government chess tournament). In June 1942, he tied for 3rd-4th with Junge, behind Alekhine and Keres, at Salzburg.[4] In June 1943, he took 3rd, behind Keres and Alekhine, at Salzburg. In August 1943, he took 2nd, behind Josef Lokvenc, at Vienna
(10th GER–ch).

After

Efim Bogoljubov at Kassel. In 1949, he tied for 3rd-5th at Heidelberg. The event was won by Wolfgang Unzicker
.

In 1949, he published the book Schachmeister denken (Dietmannsriel-Allgau 1949). In 1950, he was awarded the title of

International Master by FIDE. In 1951, he earned a PhD in chemistry from Heidelberg University, and moved to Canada, then to the United States, settling in Philadelphia
, where he took a job as a professor.

After this, he and his wife Eva moved to Bell Telephone Laboratories, Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he made contributions to electrochemistry and anodic oxidation of silicon, was expert in neutron activation analysis, and published many papers, till his retirement in 1982. He continued playing occasional games of chess, regularly visiting Reuben Fine in New York.

Notable chess games

References

  1. ^ planet.ee - 1GB ruumi kõigest 9EEK eest kuus! Archived 2008-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Paul Schmidt team chess record at Olimpbase.org
  3. ISBN 3-9804896-0-4
  4. ^ Salzburg 1942 Archived 2012-08-03 at archive.today

External links

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