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Mar-10-03
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| Sep-23-04 | | Giancarlo: You can always count on Honza for the information no one knows about. Very informative guy. |
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| Apr-19-06 | | The17thPawn: Hey <Honza> - Have you seen how thoroughly Wolf owned Chigorin. Blanked him 6-0. Not even Lasker managed that against Chigorin. |
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| Oct-20-06 | | BIDMONFA: Heinrich Wolf WOLF, Heinrich
http://www.bidmonfa.com/wolf_heinri...
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| Oct-20-07 | | brankat: H.Wolf was a talented player, but never really a professional, hence the unusual sequence of his tournaments. He had Wins and/or Draws with such outstanding masters as: Showalter, A.Burn, J.Mason, I.Gunsberg, M.Chigorin, F.Marshall, J.Mieses, Tiechmann, H.N.Pillsbury, K.Schlehter etc. |
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| Oct-20-07 | | Gypsy: At one of his columns, Reti alludes to H. Wolf as being a sort of a Viennese chess 'hustler' -- making a fair (second?) income from playing for small stakes in the local chess club(s). |
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| Oct-20-07 | | Manic: <The17thPawn> brings up a very interesting point. 6-0 against chigorin, a world championship challenger. And furthermore, thats 6 out of 6, with no draws. Amazing. |
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| Oct-20-07 | | King mega: Happy BDY! |
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| Nov-23-07 | | Karpova: Kmoch/Reinfeld in Chess Review 1950:
<True, Heinrich Wolf was a player of better than average strength. His score after the twentieth round was a respectable 10-9. It was not too implausible to hope he might beat Rubinstein. Yet this hope was silly in view of Wolf's style and temperament: excelling in steadiness, Wolf, despite his ferocious name, almost loathed imagination and courage.> They were talking about the last round in Carlsbad 1907. |
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| Nov-24-07 | | whiteshark: <Gypsy: <At one of his columns, Reti alludes to H. Wolf as being a sort of a Viennese chess 'hustler' -- making a fair (second?) income from playing for small stakes in the local chess club(s).>> Josef Emil Krejcik
described him as <...Typische Kaffeehausratte!> |
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| Dec-13-07 | | whiteshark: Im Wien jener Tage gab es drei Schachspieler mit Namen <Wolf>. Der eine, <Siegfried August> mit Vornamen, war seiner Qualifikation nach der Schwächste des Trios, fiel aber stets durch sein anziehendes Äußeres auf. Der zweite, <Siegfried Reginald> war von Beruf Geschäftsreisender. Der Dritte im Bunde, <Heinrich>, besaß Meisterstärke und schlug sich oft und mit Erfolg in der Turnierarena. Um Verwechslungen vorzubeugen, gaben ihnen die Vereinskameraden im Neuen Wiener Schachklub folgende Beinamen: Der <reizende> Wolf, der <reisende> Wolf und der <reißende> Wolf. |
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| Oct-20-08 | | brankat: R.I.P. Master Wolf. |
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| Dec-23-08 | | WhiteRook48: Wolf vs Duras was 168 moves!!! what a prodigy. I'm an expert at typing in the dark, too bad Wolf died at Hitler's hands. |
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| Oct-20-09 | | Birthday Boy: Happy Birthday!!!Heinrich Wolf!!! |
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Oct-20-09
 | | keypusher: <Birthday Boy: Happy Birthday!!!Heinrich Wolf!!!> Jesus, you're irritating. |
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Dec-12-09
 | | HeMateMe: Eddie Van halen and Valerie Bertineilli named their only child "Wolfgang,", or Wolf, or Wolfie, for short. Van Halen was actually a serious piano student growing up, and he was a pianist before he took up the axe. Mozart is his favorite composer, thus "Wolfgang." |
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May-30-10
 | | Chessical: Wolf won every game he played against Chigorin who seemed unable to build up a promising position against the Viennese master, or even take advantage of his errors: Game Collection: Chigorin's bête noire |
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Jan-06-12
 | | gezafan: How did Wolf die? What were the circumstances of his death? |
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| Jul-30-12 | | Karpova: His wife, Paula Kalmar-Wolf, was the strongest female Austrian chessplayer around 1930 and demonstrated that by coming in 2nd at the Women's World Championships in Hamburg 1930 and Prague 1931. She was a student of Reti and her husband Wolf. She suffered most likely from Diabetes ("Zuckerkrankheit") and died on September 29, 1931. Source: Pages 311 to 312 of the 1931 '(Neue) Wiener Schachzeitung' |
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| Jun-05-15 | | Howard: Wolf, quite sadly, died in a Nazi concentration camp----just like Treybal did. |
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Jun-10-15
 | | FSR: <Howard> I don't think that Karel Treybal died in a concentration camp. As his bio says, the Nazis executed him in 1940 for illegal possession of a firearm. |
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| Apr-20-18 | | zanzibar: According to the bio above Wolf stopped playing competitive chess after 1923... <He retired from active play in 1923.> Thing is, I found a photo of him playing Treybal in a tournament in 1927: https://www.gettyimages.no/detail/n... Who can argue with GettyImages?
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I'd like to see a source about his unfortunate demise - Kmoch writes about his fear in his "Chess Titans" article, and Landsberger mentions him hiding in 40 different locations over two years before being apprehended. But I couldn't read more, and couldn't see Landsberger's source(s). |
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Apr-20-18
 | | Retireborn: <z> Perhaps they aren't playing a tournament game there? (no scoresheets.) Could be analysis or an offhand game during a club tournament. I can find no record of Treybal playing tournament chess in 1927, but perhaps the date is misleading. |
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| Apr-20-18 | | zanzibar: <RB> not having scoresheets isn't surprising if the photograph were staged during a tournament (examples abound). The quality of the photo suggests it was staged. The date could be wrong - but so could be <CG>'s statement of fact. Wouldn't be the first time! |
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Apr-20-18
| | Retireborn: <z> Tried a spot of googling and found this page, which does mention chess activities after 1923, although no specific reference to January 1927. https://atypus.wordpress.com/2015/0... |
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