| German Championship (1938) |
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The 5th championship of Nazi Germany was a 16-player round robin held at the Kurhaus in Bad Oeynhausen, a town between Bielefeld and Hannover, with daily rounds from 24 July to 7 August 1938. The field consisted of the top seven players from the German Championship (1937) (Kieninger (the defending champion), Richter, Rellstab, Michel, Kranki, Schmitt, Reinhardt), six players from three regional "Zonen" tournaments (Kohler, Eisinger, Engels, Herrmann, Koch, Nowarra), and three masters from the recently annexed "Ostmark" (Austria) (Eliskases, Becker, Weil). Weil apparently being a late replacement for Ernst Gruenfeld. Time control: 2 hours for the first 36 moves, and then 1 more hour for every 18 moves. Games were played from 9 am - 1 pm and 3-7 pm. Erich Eliskases won with 12.5/15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pts
1 Eliskases * 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 12½
2 Kieninger 0 * ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 10
Michel 0 ½ * 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 10
4 Engels 0 0 1 * 0 ½ 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 9
5 Becker ½ 1 0 1 * 1 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 8½
Richter ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 8½
Koch 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 * 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 8½
8 Rellstab ½ 0 ½ 1 1 0 1 * 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 8
Kohler 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 * 1 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 8
10 Herrmann 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 * 1 ½ 0 1 1 0 7
11 Reinhardt 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 * 1 1 1 1 1 6½
12 Kranki ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 0 ½ 0 * ½ 0 1 0 5½
Schmitt 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ * 1 0 1 5½
Eisinger ½ 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 * 1 1 5½
15 Weil 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 1 0 * ½ 3½
Nowarra 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 0 0 ½ * 3½
The tournament book by Lachaga states that the 13th round game Kranki vs Reinhardt was won by Reinhardt, but the game score is missing. The newspapers have that this game was adjourned on 5 August and finished on Saturday 6 August.
Sources
Wikipedia article: German Chess Championship
DSB: https://www.schachbund.de/dem1938.h...
TeleSchach: https://www.teleschach.de/historie/...
Roger Paige's chess site #2010 (https://web.archive.org/web/2014051...)
Völkischer Beobachter, 7 August 1938, p. 6 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Innsbrucker Nachrichten (Neueste Zeitung), 20 July 1938, p. 4 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt (Abend-Ausgabe), 1 August 1938, p. 5 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt (Abend-Ausgabe), 8 August 1938, p. 3 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Kurt Richter. A Chess Biography with 499 Games, by Alan McGowan. McFarland, Jefferson 2018, pp. 183-187 (https://books.google.no/books?id=cu...) Tournament books Die Schachmeisterschaft von Deutschland in Bad Oeynhausen 1938, by Alfred Brinckmann. Schachverlag Hans Hedewigs Nachf. Curt Ronniger, Leipzig 1938. 80 pp.
Bad Oeynhausen 1938. Sammlung aller Partien, ed. by Milciades Angel Lachaga. Buenos Aires 1972. 64 pp. Original collections: Game Collection: 5th German Championship - Bad Oeynhausen 1938 by User: Pawn and Two (who collected the games) and Game Collection: German Championship 1938 by User: Tabanus. Thanks to User: chesshistoryinterest and User: Telemus for helpful comments.
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| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. H Nowarra vs L Schmitt |
| 0-1 | 46 | 1938 | German Championship | A46 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 2. E Reinhardt vs H Herrmann |
| 0-1 | 36 | 1938 | German Championship | E11 Bogo-Indian Defense |
| 3. M Eisinger vs L Engels |
| 0-1 | 64 | 1938 | German Championship | C55 Two Knights Defense |
| 4. A Kohler vs Eliskases |
| 0-1 | 36 | 1938 | German Championship | B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen |
| 5. E Reinhardt vs L Rellstab |
| 0-1 | 39 | 1938 | German Championship | E36 Nimzo-Indian, Classical |
| 6. A Kohler vs E Reinhardt |
| 0-1 | 51 | 1938 | German Championship | B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen |
| 7. P Michel vs Eliskases |
| 0-1 | 34 | 1938 | German Championship | C14 French, Classical |
| 8. L Engels vs G Kieninger |
| 0-1 | 50 | 1938 | German Championship | C71 Ruy Lopez |
| 9. K Richter vs B Koch |
| 0-1 | 36 | 1938 | German Championship | C13 French |
| 10. E Reinhardt vs P Michel |
| 0-1 | 39 | 1938 | German Championship | D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch |
| 11. M Eisinger vs A Kohler |
| 0-1 | 35 | 1938 | German Championship | C43 Petrov, Modern Attack |
| 12. E Reinhardt vs Eliskases |
| 0-1 | 20 | 1938 | German Championship | E33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical |
| 13. L Rellstab vs K Richter |
| 0-1 | 53 | 1938 | German Championship | A46 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 14. W Weil vs H Herrmann |
 | 0-1 | 32 | 1938 | German Championship | E92 King's Indian |
| 15. H Nowarra vs P Michel |
| 0-1 | 65 | 1938 | German Championship | D02 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 16. A Becker vs B Koch |
| 0-1 | 42 | 1938 | German Championship | E01 Catalan, Closed |
| 17. H Kranki vs L Engels |
| 0-1 | 40 | 1938 | German Championship | A04 Reti Opening |
| 18. M Eisinger vs E Reinhardt |
| 0-1 | 70 | 1938 | German Championship | B86 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack |
| 19. H Nowarra vs M Eisinger |
| 0-1 | 52 | 1938 | German Championship | A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 |
| 20. H Nowarra vs Eliskases |
| 0-1 | 52 | 1938 | German Championship | E64 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav System |
| 21. E Reinhardt vs G Kieninger |
| 0-1 | 52 | 1938 | German Championship | D41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch |
| 22. L Rellstab vs H Kranki |
| 0-1 | 49 | 1938 | German Championship | E16 Queen's Indian |
| 23. M Eisinger vs K Richter |
| 0-1 | 75 | 1938 | German Championship | B01 Scandinavian |
| 24. W Weil vs P Michel |
| 0-1 | 78 | 1938 | German Championship | A06 Reti Opening |
| 25. H Kranki vs A Kohler |
| 0-1 | 70 | 1938 | German Championship | D74 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O |
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