Dr. Joseph Platz
Number of games in database: 11
Years covered: 1920 to 1977
Overall record: +8 -2 =1 (77.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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C55

Two Knights Defense (2 games)

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DR. JOSEPH PLATZ (born Apr-11-1905, died Dec-30-1981) Germany [what is this?]

page 1 of 1; 11 games    Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. H Heider vs J Platz 1-0 12 1920 Cologne C55 Two Knights Defense 2. Rellstab vs J Platz   1-0 24 1929 Duisburg-B C00 French Defense 3. J Platz vs Chernev 1-0 29 1939 New York ch E34 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation 4. S Landau vs J Platz   0-1 24 1941 New York C83 Ruy Lopez, Open 5. Koltanowski vs J Platz   0-1 33 1944 simul blind 1/? C55 Two Knights Defense 6. J Platz vs Kashdan   ½-½ 37 1948 USA Ch C48 Four Knights 7. J Platz vs K Burger   1-0 22 1949 New York cc C77 Ruy Lopez 8. J Platz vs R Klugman   1-0 27 1949 New York B02 Alekhine's Defense 9. Fischer vs J Platz 0-1 37 1964 Hartford sim C18 French, Winawer 10. Gould vs J Platz 0-1 12 1965 Connecticut (USA) A00 Uncommon Opening 11. J Platz vs Goshen   1-0 10 1977 Connecticut B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack

Sep-15-04    fgh: This guy is pretty good. Sep-15-04    fgh: He beated Fischer 2 - 0. Sep-15-04    offramp: No, he beat Fischer once; the game is a repeat. Sep-19-05    sneaky pete: Dr Joseph Platz, b. April 11,1905 (Cologne, Germany); d. December 30, 1981 (USA). Friend and student of Lasker, after both men fled for Hitler to the USA. (Re-)inventor of 2... Nc6 in the From's Gambit - it had been played once before by Schlechter, I believe. Author of "Chess Memoirs", 1979. On his (lucky) win against Fischer he wrote: "My victory over Fischer gave me a double satisfaction, inasmuch as I avenged Dr Lasker whom Fischer does not even rate among the ten greatest players of all time, and whom Fischer calls <a weak player>. Indeed, for 27 years he was a very weak player!" http://lexikon.freenet.de/Joseph_Pl... Sep-19-05    who: The game was against Fischer was a simul. Sep-19-05    RookFile: Dr. Platz also invented a line in the Four Knights game. I'm not an expert in that opening, but I remember a master talking about that during a lecture once. Jul-09-08    whiteshark: You get some sixty thousand hits for <Kaiser <Josef Platz>>. :D Jul-31-10    GrahamClayton: Excellent biography can be found at: http://www.connecticutchess.com/ART...

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