Dec 27, 1927: Hastings, foreign competitors: "... Otto Friedmann comes with the recommendation from the president of the Central Chess Federation of Czechoslovakia,.."

London-A 1946: many times only "Friedmann".

Oct 20, 1947: London Chess Championship
"Dr. O. Friedmann" finished shared last.

I guess Dr. O. Friedmann and Dr. O. Friedman are the same, because the latter did not only play in Southsea 1949, but also in a small London tournament shortly thereafter, in a radio match between the London Chess League and an Australian team in August 1949, the Southern Counties Chess Union championship in 1953, in Bognor 1954, in the Britsh championship 1956 (where he is assigned to be from London) and in the major section in Hastings 1958 -- and always he is named Dr.O. or at least Dr.

All 9 reports are written be a correspondent in the same style. Initials are not given in the first 8 reports, except in the very first round for 'G. Wood' of Section B, the London champion (probably to distinguish him from B.H. Wood).

But for a while I thought that the missing "Dr." could prove something, because the correspondent constantly writes "Dr. Tartakower", "Dr. Euwe" and "Dr. Bernstein", and occasionally "Dr. List".

However, in the final report (January 28) on Section A, and there only in the final standings, one initial is given for almost all players, except of List and Friedmann, but at least these both are "Dr." here!

Only btw, because it proves nothing as well, the correspondent named the countries of all participants in these final standings, and Friedmann has "(Czechoslovakia)".

<Otto Friedman (1905-1978), born and educated in Prague, emigrated to England in the 1930s where he served the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during the German occupation of his native country. He taught in English universities (London, Oxford, Reading) following graduation from the London School of Economics in 1947 and he worked as a management consultant in London prior to moving to Canada in 1968. In Canada he taught at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto, 1968-1971. In the latter year he joined the faculty of York University as a visiting professor in the Division of Social Science and the Faculty of Environmental Studies where he remained until his death in 1978. Friedman was the author of several books, articles, and lectures in the fields of sociology, organizational theory and practise, and psychology, and produced Czech translations of several works of Freud. His own titles included 'The dangers of fascism,' (1931), 'The break-up of Czech democracy,' (1950, 1971), as well as lectures on 'Productivity in retailing and staff management,' (1956), 'Management ideologies and organizational change,' (1967) and others. In addition he was an <avid chess player> and contributed newspaper articles, and television and radio programmes on the game while living in Toronto.>

http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/...

DR. O. FRIEDMAN

Mr. Otto Friedman is a University Lecturer in Social Psychology. He is a Doctor of Law of Prague and a M.Sc. of London University. He is a writer on social and psychological problems and the Czech translator of Sigmund Freud’s works on psycho-analysis. During the war he was Research Assistant to the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, Mr. Jan Masaryk.

In 1925, at the age of 20 he became the Champion of the "Aljechin" C.C. then the strongest club in Prague. In 1926, playing for the first time in a Master tournament, he tied for second prize in the Prague Tournament with Chodera, only ½ point behind the winner, Major Hromadka (Opocensky was 4th). His scientific and musical interests induced him to give up tournament play for 17 years. During the war, however, when serving with the Czechoslovak Army in Britain, he revived his old hobby which helped him to overcome the boredom of guard duties, particularly at night. He usually memorised one or two chess problems and attempted to solve them blindfold. As soon as this queer habit of his was noticed by his commanding officer, he was conscripted into the chess team of the Czechoslovak Army, and then into a representative team of the Allied Forces in England.

In 1945 he was third in the London Championship, one point behind the winner, G. Wood, and ahead of Dr. Aitken and Sir George Thomas. In 1948 he tied for first prize in the Middlesex Championship with G. Wood, but lost the play-off. In the last knock-out round of the London Championship he knocked out the present British Champion, Mr. Broadbent. As a lecturer in Citizenship and Current Affairs to H. M. Forces and to the German prisoners of war in this country, he introduced chess as a subsidiary subject and gave many simultaneous displays and lectures on "Chess and Life."