| Oct-27-04 | | fasting: This guy plays great! how come a fourth part of his games are against Keres? anyway his got a nice winning-rate against him! |
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Apr-07-05
 | | Gypsy: Highest Rating: 2696 on the December 1943 rating list, #9 in world, age 27y4m |
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| May-23-06 | | Runemaster: Schmidt and Keres were both from Estonia and born the same year, so inevitably they played each other a lot in the early days. It's interesting to note how evenly matched Scmidt and Keres were back in 1935/6 - that makes the [Sonas?] statistic quoted by <Gypsy> not so surprising. Once again, this illustrates the misfortune of some players when FIDE titles were given out in the 1950s - Schmidt at 9th in the world was never made a GM. |
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| Aug-24-06 | | Mibelz: <Runemaster> During WW II, Paul Felix Schmidt played in the strongest chess tournaments in Europe. In August 1940, he took 2nd, behind Georg Kieninger, in Bad Oeynhausen (7th GER-ch). In August 1941, he tied for 1st with Klaus Junge in Bad Oeynhausen (8th GER-ch), and won a play-off match for the title against Junge (+3 –0 =1) in Bromberg. In October 1941, he tied for 1st with Alexander Alekhine at Krakow/Warsaw (2nd GG-ch). In June 1942, he tied for 3rd-4th with Junge, behind Alekhine, and Keres, in Salzburg. In June 1943, he took 3rd, behind Keres and Alekhine, in Salzburg. In August 1943, he took 2nd, behind Josef Lokvenc, in Vienna (10th GER-ch). |
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Feb-23-07
 | | suenteus po 147: Here's a little treat: Game Collection: Parnu 1937 Schmidt won this event against some fairly recognizable names. I'm curious if anyone has any additional historical information about the tournament beyond what I've already been able to piece together from my cursory research. It's much appreciated :) |
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| Feb-23-07 | | Ziggurat: Great stuff <suenteus>! Thanks! |
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Feb-23-07
 | | Maatalkko: Thanks <suenteus>. A world-class competitor I never heard of! Every time I think I know them all, a new one is uncovered. |
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| Oct-11-07 | | Whack8888: I met a guy who I think knew this guy after he moved to America. I am not sure which college he taught at, but I think it might have been Bryn Mawr. It might have been another Philadelphia school. I was talking to the guy about chess, and he said he was into chess a while back, and then mentioned that he knew a Paul Schmidt from Estonia who was really good. I vaguely remembered the name because a game between him and Keres is in the Keres book Grandmaster of Chess. I had actually told the guy that he was a lot older than Keres, but I see that is inaccurate. They were the same age. Maybe if I talk to the guy a bit more, I can get some stories etc. from him but so far he has just said how Schmidt would walk by all the students playing chess, and just would only glance over at the games and never comment, like he was trying not to watch them. Apparantly, he got the entire place into chess, which is awesome. <Highest Rating: 2696 on the December 1943 rating list, #9 in world, age 27y4m> Thanks Gypsy! I was trying to tell the guy how good this guy was, but I didnt really know for sure. I knew he was top notch, as one would have to be to win the Estonian Championship, but I didnt know how he compared internationally. I bet the guy will be shocked when he finds out he knew someone who was at one point approximately #9 in the world! |
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Aug-20-08
 | | whiteshark: Bio:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_F...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_F...
In 1951, he earned a PhD in chemistry from Heidelberg, and moved to Canada, then to the USA. Pictures:
'Keres vs Schmidt, Munich 1936': http://www.chessbase.de/Nachrichten... Noordwijk 1938: http://www.clubedexadrez.com.br/por... |
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Jun-08-09
 | | Marmot PFL: He wrote a nice book, How Chessmasters Think (Schachmeister denken) translated by Eric Tangborn, and dedicated to his friend Klaus Junge. |
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Aug-02-09
 | | Breunor: Soltis' chess column today is about a famous game he played against his father - Soltis says that William Harstein recommended that game (to director Michael Bennett) for the basis of a play called 'Chess' that unfortunately never got produced. |
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Nov-13-09
 | | GrahamClayton: <breunor>Soltis' chess column today is about a famous game he played against his father - Soltis says that William Harstein recommended that game (to director Michael Bennett) for the basis of a play called 'Chess' that unfortunately never got produced. Breunor,
Here is the game in question (location and date unknown) 
click for larger viewWhite mates with 1. h6+  h6 2.hg6+ g5 3. h5+ h5 4.f4+  e2 5.f6+ h6 6.h1+ g7 7.e8+ e8 8.h7+ f8 9.f7# This position was used in the game Sergievsky-Viigand from "CHESS - The Musical" The original Schmidt game was featured in the 2nd edition of "Secrets of Spectacular Chess" by Jonathan Levitt and David Friedgood. Their comment on the game is "A twentieth century answer to the Evergreen game, involving extreme paradox of material, with three sacrifices on empty squares." |
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| Dec-07-09 | | Alan McGowan: The position shown under the Nov 13, 2009 entry appeared in the English chess magazine 'Chess', June 1947, p 288. There, it was stated, presumably by the editor B.H. Wood: 'K. Richter sends us a superb finish to a game played by P. Schmidt in Heidelberg last year. Schmidt is the Esthonian (sic] international and great rival of Keres, who opted for German citizenship early in the war.' The wording is quite clear, and nowhere does it say that K. Richter was involved in the game. However, this position has often been shown, wrongly, as being played between P. Schmidt and Kurt Richter, one example being 'The Art of Attack in Chess' by Vuković, published by Pergamon Press in 1965. Dr Paul Tröger in his book 'Aus meinen Tagebüchern' (Beyer-Verlag) gives the above position on p 33, with some text on p 35, stating that the game was played between Schmidt and Richter at the German Championship at Bad Oeynhausen 1940. It wasn't. Richter was White in that game, which was drawn. Levitt and Friedgood, in 'Secrets of Spectacular Chess' (Batsford,1995) give the position on p 126, stating that it was played between P.F. Schmidt and P.R. Schmidt, but with no source for their information. Extra black pawns are shown at a2 and b7. Paul Schmidt studied at Heidelberg after WWII. It is possible that the game was played between him and his father, but I do not know enough about his family situation at the time, and I have not yet been able to find any other confirmed references to the player of the black pieces. All I do know is that it wasn't Kurt Richter! |
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| Dec-07-09 | | MaxxLange: "Keres, who opted for German citizenship early in the war" Keres was a chess master, not Batman. In 1941, when the Germans rolled over the Baltic States, he survived, like people have to do do in war. That is not "opting for German citizenship". |
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Feb-04-11
| | GrahamClayton: A miniature from Schmidt that is not in the database: [Event "?"]
[Site "Heidelberg"]
[Date "1948.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Schmidt, Paul Felix"]
[Black "Lanterbach"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. d4 f6 2. c4 e6 3. c3  b4 4. e3 O-O 5. d3 xc3+ 6. bxc3 b6 7. e4 d6 8. e5 dxe5 9. dxe5 g4 10. f3 b7 11. h3 xf3 
click for larger view12. xh7+ xh7 13. hxg4+ g8 14. xf3 d7 15. g5 e8 16. h5 f8 17. g6 fxg6 18. xg6 g8 19. h7 1-0 Source: Bill Wall, “500 Indian Miniatures”, Chess Enterprises, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, 1990 |
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Aug-20-11
| | whiteshark: <Player of the Day>, again! |
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Aug-20-11
 | | Caissanist: I believe that the <Chess> excerpt from <Alan McGowan> is saying that it was Schmidt, not Keres, who opted for German citizenship. |
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Nov-28-11
 | | wordfunph: <Marmot PFL: He wrote a nice book, How Chessmasters Think> 136-page book published by Chess Enterprises in 1988, as reviewed by David De Sousa.. <This book presents 15 Grandmaster's games commented and described play by play, elaborating on the logic development of thinking needed to discover a good move. Is like having the grandmaster thinking aloud as they evaluate every position and play along the game.> http://www.amazon.com/How-Chessmast... seems a good book.. |
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Aug-20-12
 | | brankat: <(born Aug-20-1916, died Aug-11-1984)> <Years covered: 1923 to 2005> Not quite possible :-)
The first game and the last 2 games listed here must have been by another P.F.Schmidt. |
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