| German Championship (1939) |
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The 6th championship of Nazi Germany was a 16-player round robin tournament held at the Kurhaus in Bad Oeynhausen, a town near Bielefeld and Hannover, with daily rounds from 9-23 July 1939. The final list of participants was released by the Grossdeutsche Schachbund on 6 (or 5) July, right after Bad Harzburg (1939) (in which Lange qualified): Eliskases of Innsbruck (the defending champion), Kieninger (Köln), Brinckmann (Kiel), Eisinger (Karlsruhe), Engels (Düsseldorf), Ernst (Gelsenkirchen), Gilg (Troppau (Opava)), Heinicke (Hamburg), Keller (Dresden), Kohler (München), Dr. Lange (Essen), Lokvenc and Müller (Wien), and Michel, Rellstab and Richter (Berlin). Time control: two hours for the first 36 moves, and then one more hour for every 18 moves. Games were set to play from 9 am to 1 pm and 4-8 pm. Erich Eliskases won again, with 11/15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pts
1 Eliskases * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 11
2 Lokvenc ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1 9
3 Gilg 0 0 * 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 0 1 ½ ½ 0 1 8½
4 Kohler ½ ½ 0 * 0 ½ 0 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 8
Rellstab 0 ½ 0 1 * 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 8
6 Engels ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 7½
Keller 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ * 1 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 7½
Heinicke 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 0 * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 7½
Richter 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 1 ½ * 1 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 7½
10 Brinckmann 1 0 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 * 0 1 1 0 1 0 7
Mueller ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 * 0 1 0 0 1 7
Kieninger ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 * ½ 1 1 ½ 7
Eisinger 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ 1 7
14 Michel 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 1 0 0 * ½ ½ 6½
15 Lange 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ * 1 6
16 Ernst ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 * 5
On 29 July 1939, Eliskases, Engels and Michel (together with Albert Becker and Enrique (Heinrich) Reinhardt) left Antwerpen on board Piriapolis to represent Germany in the Buenos Aires Olympiad (1939). Because of World War II, they all remained in South America.Sources
Wikipedia article: German Chess Championship
TeleSchach: https://www.teleschach.de/historie/...
Roger Paige's chess site #2010 (https://web.archive.org/web/2014051...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 5 July 1939, p. 8 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 8 July 1939, p. 7 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 10 July 1939, p. 8 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 16 July 1939, p. 10 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 20 July 1939, p. 8 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 23 July 1939, p. 10 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 24 July 1939, p. 7 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Hamburger Anzeiger, 6 July 1939, p. 9 (https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/92...)
Völkischer Beobachter, 9 July 1939, p. 28 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Illustrierte Kronen Zeitung, 10 July 1939, p. 11 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Innsbrucker Nachrichten, 5 August 1939, p. 21 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt (Sonntagsbeilage), 30 July 1939, p. 13 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Kurt Richter. A Chess Biography with 499 Games, by Alan McGowan. McFarland, Jefferson 2018. 368 pp. Tournament book Bad Oeynhausen 1939. Sammlung aller Partien, ed. by Milciades Angel Lachaga. Buenos Aires 1972. 64 pp. Original collections: Game Collection: 6th German Championship - Bad Oeynhausen 1939 by User: Pawn and Two (who collected the games) and Game Collection: German Championship 1939 by User: Tabanus. Thanks to User: chesshistoryinterest for helpful comments.
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| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. Gilg vs A Brinckmann |
| 1-0 | 64 | 1939 | German Championship | D55 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 2. M Eisinger vs K Richter |
| 1-0 | 37 | 1939 | German Championship | B01 Scandinavian |
| 3. H Mueller vs W Ernst |
| 1-0 | 41 | 1939 | German Championship | E16 Queen's Indian |
| 4. Eliskases vs W Lange |
 | 1-0 | 29 | 1939 | German Championship | E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto |
| 5. A Kohler vs M Eisinger |
| 1-0 | 48 | 1939 | German Championship | B73 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical |
| 6. H Heinicke vs G Kieninger |
| 1-0 | 42 | 1939 | German Championship | D61 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack |
| 7. L Engels vs K Richter |
| 1-0 | 32 | 1939 | German Championship | D09 Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit, 5.g3 |
| 8. L Rellstab vs A Kohler |
 | 1-0 | 60 | 1939 | German Championship | C66 Ruy Lopez |
| 9. J Lokvenc vs W Ernst |
| 1-0 | 82 | 1939 | German Championship | A06 Reti Opening |
| 10. Eliskases vs M Eisinger |
| 1-0 | 29 | 1939 | German Championship | A13 English |
| 11. H Heinicke vs P Michel |
| 1-0 | 57 | 1939 | German Championship | D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch |
| 12. A Brinckmann vs W Lange |
| 1-0 | 23 | 1939 | German Championship | B18 Caro-Kann, Classical |
| 13. A Kohler vs K Richter |
| 1-0 | 63 | 1939 | German Championship | B01 Scandinavian |
| 14. G Kieninger vs H Mueller |
| 1-0 | 32 | 1939 | German Championship | B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange |
| 15. K Richter vs R Keller |
| 1-0 | 60 | 1939 | German Championship | D00 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 16. W Lange vs W Ernst |
| 1-0 | 36 | 1939 | German Championship | A06 Reti Opening |
| 17. J Lokvenc vs Gilg |
| 1-0 | 21 | 1939 | German Championship | A15 English |
| 18. P Michel vs A Brinckmann |
| 1-0 | 34 | 1939 | German Championship | C22 Center Game |
| 19. Eliskases vs K Richter |
| 1-0 | 32 | 1939 | German Championship | A15 English |
| 20. R Keller vs A Kohler |
| 1-0 | 47 | 1939 | German Championship | B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange |
| 21. A Brinckmann vs M Eisinger |
| 1-0 | 25 | 1939 | German Championship | A46 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 22. Gilg vs G Kieninger |
| 1-0 | 52 | 1939 | German Championship | D30 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 23. W Lange vs Gilg |
| 1-0 | 39 | 1939 | German Championship | D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch |
| 24. M Eisinger vs W Ernst |
| 1-0 | 28 | 1939 | German Championship | C50 Giuoco Piano |
| 25. P Michel vs H Mueller |
| 1-0 | 27 | 1939 | German Championship | B16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation |
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