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German Championship (1938) 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 ˝ ˝ 1 ˝ 1 1 1 ˝ 1 ˝ 1 1 12˝ 2 Kieninger 0 * ˝ 1 0 ˝ ˝ 1 ˝ ˝ 1 ˝ 1 1 1 1 10 Michel 0 ˝ * 0 1 ˝ 1 ˝ ˝ ˝ 1 1 ˝ 1 1 1 10 4 Engels 0 0 1 * 0 ˝ 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 ˝ 1 9 5 Becker ˝ 1 0 1 * 1 0 0 1 ˝ 1 1 ˝ 0 ˝ ˝ 8˝ Richter ˝ ˝ ˝ ˝ 0 * 0 1 ˝ ˝ ˝ ˝ ˝ 1 1 1 8˝ Koch 0 ˝ 0 0 1 1 * 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 8˝ 8 Rellstab ˝ 0 ˝ 1 1 0 1 * 0 ˝ 1 0 ˝ 1 ˝ ˝ 8 Kohler 0 ˝ ˝ 0 0 ˝ 0 1 * 1 0 1 1 1 ˝ 1 8 10 Herrmann 0 ˝ ˝ 1 ˝ ˝ 0 ˝ 0 * 1 ˝ 0 1 1 0 7 11 Reinhardt 0 0 0 0 0 ˝ 0 0 1 0 * 1 1 1 1 1 6˝ 12 Kranki ˝ ˝ 0 0 0 ˝ 1 1 0 ˝ 0 * ˝ 0 1 0 5˝ Schmitt 0 0 ˝ 0 ˝ ˝ 0 ˝ 0 1 0 ˝ * 1 0 1 5˝ Eisinger ˝ 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 * 1 1 5˝ 15 Weil 0 0 0 ˝ ˝ 0 0 ˝ ˝ 0 0 0 1 0 * ˝ 3˝ Nowarra 0 0 0 0 ˝ 0 0 ˝ 0 1 0 1 0 0 ˝ * 3˝ 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.  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 35  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. K Richter vs H Kranki   ½-½ 37 1938 German Championship A45 Queen's Pawn Game 2. E Eliskases vs A Becker   ½-½ 49 1938 German Championship D56 Queen's Gambit Declined 3. L Schmitt vs K Richter   ½-½ 27 1938 German Championship A34 English, Symmetrical 4. W Weil vs A Becker   ½-½ 33 1938 German Championship E33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 5. Rellstab vs P Michel   ½-½ 47 1938 German Championship D00 Queen's Pawn Game 6. H Kranki vs Kieninger   ½-½ 35 1938 German Championship D02 Queen's Pawn Game 7. P Michel vs A Kohler   ½-½ 22 1938 German Championship C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical 8. K Richter vs L Engels ½-½ 36 1938 German Championship B73 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical 9. H Herrmann vs K Richter   ½-½ 30 1938 German Championship D74 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O 10. L Schmitt vs A Becker   ½-½ 53 1938 German Championship A25 English 11. Kieninger vs H Herrmann   ½-½ 46 1938 German Championship C09 French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line 12. E Eliskases vs H Kranki   ½-½ 41 1938 German Championship E54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System 13. H Nowarra vs Rellstab   ½-½ 33 1938 German Championship E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 14. H Herrmann vs A Becker   ½-½ 43 1938 German Championship A09 Reti Opening 15. L Schmitt vs H Kranki   ½-½ 62 1938 German Championship A46 Queen's Pawn Game 16. L Engels vs W Weil   ½-½ 58 1938 German Championship C11 French 17. B Koch vs Kieninger   ½-½ 26 1938 German Championship C28 Vienna Game 18. K Richter vs A Kohler   ½-½ 48 1938 German Championship D41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 19. A Kohler vs Kieninger   ½-½ 63 1938 German Championship C66 Ruy Lopez 20. H Herrmann vs H Kranki   ½-½ 37 1938 German Championship E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 21. M Eisinger vs E Eliskases   ½-½ 38 1938 German Championship B10 Caro-Kann 22. P Michel vs K Richter ½-½ 29 1938 German Championship B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening 23. W Weil vs Rellstab   ½-½ 52 1938 German Championship E16 Queen's Indian 24. K Richter vs E Reinhardt   ½-½ 57 1938 German Championship B85 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Classical 25. Kieninger vs P Michel   ½-½ 67 1938 German Championship C42 Petrov Defense  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 35    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)     There is no kibitzing for this page, yet.   NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. 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