Isaak Appel
Number of games in database: 25
Years covered: 1928 to 1938
Overall record: +8 -9 =8 (48.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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D37		Queen's Gambit Declined (3 games)
E16		Queen's Indian (2 games)
D45		Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav (2 games)

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ISAAK APPEL (born 1905, died 1941) Poland [what is this?] Izaak Appel was a Polish master. In 1934, he won the Lodz championship. He participated in several Polish championships. In 1936, he finished shared 1st at the Lodz Christmas tournament ahead of players like Teodor Regedzinski and Miguel Najdorf.

page 1 of 1; games 1-25 of 25  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Alekhine vs I Appel 1-0 24 1928 Lodz D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 2. I Appel vs D M MacIsaac   1-0 37 1933 Folkestone ol (Men) D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 3. I Appel vs W Winter 0-1 35 1933 Olympiad D00 Queen's Pawn Game 4. Fine vs I Appel ½-½ 65 1935 Lodz it, POL E80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation 5. I Appel vs L Kremer   0-1 26 1937 Jurata D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 6. I Appel vs K Salbu   1-0 33 1937 7th olm final D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 7. Prins vs I Appel   1-0 41 1937 7th olm final E46 Nimzo-Indian 8. A Wojciechowski vs I Appel   0-1 27 1937 POL-ch B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 9. I A Horowitz vs I Appel   1-0 44 1937 7th olm final B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange 10. I Appel vs Guimard   1-0 48 1937 7th olm final A16 English 11. I Appel vs Foltys   ½-½ 30 1938 Lodz A04 Reti Opening 12. Najdorf vs I Appel 0-1 28 1938 Lodz D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 13. I Appel vs Pirc 0-1 25 1938 Lodz E48 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5 14. F Sulik vs I Appel   1-0 45 1938 Lodz E15 Queen's Indian 15. I Appel vs E Eliskases   ½-½ 26 1938 Lodz E16 Queen's Indian 16. J Kolski vs I Appel   ½-½ 37 1938 Lodz E16 Queen's Indian 17. I Appel vs V Petrov   ½-½ 36 1938 Lodz D19 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch 18. L Steiner vs I Appel   1-0 48 1938 Lodz B03 Alekhine's Defense 19. E Gerstenfeld vs I Appel   0-1 81 1938 Lodz C01 French, Exchange 20. I Appel vs Menchik   1-0 53 1938 Lodz D78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6 21. Stahlberg vs I Appel   ½-½ 20 1938 Lodz E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto 22. I Appel vs Tartakower   0-1 34 1938 Lodz A54 Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3 23. I Appel vs P Frydman   ½-½ 29 1938 Lodz D55 Queen's Gambit Declined 24. T Regedzinski vs I Appel   ½-½ 24 1938 Lodz D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 25. I Appel vs J A Seitz 1-0 29 1938 Lodz D37 Queen's Gambit Declined  page 1 of 1; games 1-25 of 25

Aug-16-05    cuendillar: <The popular tradition has it that Newton was sitting under an Appel tree when an apple fell on his head, and that this made him understand that earthly and celestial gravitation are the same. A contemporary writer, William Stukeley, recorded in his Memoirs of Sir Isaak Newton's Life a conversation with Newton in Kensington on 15 April 1726, in which Newton recalled "when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. It was occasioned by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative mood. Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, thought he to himself. Why should it not go sideways or upwards, but constantly to the earth's centre." In similar terms, Voltaire wrote, "Sir Isaac Newton walking in his gardens, had the first thought of his system of gravitation, upon seeing an apple falling from a tree." These accounts are exaggerations of Newton's own tale about sitting by a window in his home and watching an apple fall from a tree. It is now generally considered probable that even this story was invented by Newton in later life, to illustrate how he drew inspiration from everyday events.> Aug-16-05    offramp: "Please wait for Isaak Appel to load." Aug-24-08    myschkin: . . . aka <Izaak Appel> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izaak_... Aug-29-08    GrahamClayton: There was a tournament held in Warsaw in early 1939 to determine who would be chosen for the Polish team that was going to compete in the 1939 Olympiad in Buenos Aires. Towards the end of the tournament, 2 players were competing for the last vacant place - Teodor Regedzinski and Appel, who was Jewish. Appel had to beat Miguel Najdorf in the final round to make the Olympiad team, but he lost the game. As a result he was a victim of the Nazi ghetto during World War 2, and perished. If he had made the Olympiad team, he would have been able to stay in Argentina after the Olympiad, and would have survived the war. Sep-03-08    GrahamClayton: Source: "Batsford Book of Chess Records", Yakov Damsky, Batsford, 2005 Aug-04-12    Karpova: Final Standings of the Lodz Christmas tournament 1936: 1-3. Appel 5.0 1-3. P. Frydman 5.0 1-3. Gerstenfeld 5.0 4. Regedzinski 4.0 5-6. A. Frydman 3.5 5-6. Najdorf 3.5 7. Kolski 2.0 8. Spiro 0.0 Source: Page 38 of the 1937 '(Neue) Wiener Schachzeitung'

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