| Sep-15-04 | | fgh: This guy is pretty good. |
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| Sep-15-04 | | fgh: He beated Fischer 2 - 0. |
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Sep-15-04
 | | offramp: No, he beat Fischer once; the game is a repeat. |
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| Sep-19-05 | | sneaky pete: Dr Joseph Platz, b. April 11,1905 (Cologne, Germany); d. December 30, 1981 (USA). Friend and student of Lasker, after both men fled for Hitler to the USA. (Re-)inventor of 2... Nc6 in the From's Gambit - it had been played once before by Schlechter, I believe. Author of "Chess Memoirs", 1979. On his (lucky) win against Fischer he wrote: "My victory over Fischer gave me a double satisfaction, inasmuch as I avenged Dr Lasker whom Fischer does not even rate among the ten greatest players of all time, and whom Fischer calls <a weak player>. Indeed, for 27 years he was a very weak player!" http://lexikon.freenet.de/Joseph_Pl... |
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| Sep-19-05 | | who: The game was against Fischer was a simul. |
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| Sep-19-05 | | RookFile: Dr. Platz also invented a line in the Four Knights game. I'm not an expert in that opening, but I remember a master talking about that during a lecture once. |
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| Jul-09-08 | | whiteshark: You get some sixty thousand hits for <Kaiser <Josef Platz>>. :D |
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Jul-31-10
 | | GrahamClayton: Excellent biography can be found at:
http://www.connecticutchess.com/ART... |
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| Mar-21-11 | | Caissanist: The link given by Graham Clayton is dead now, I believe it is the article "Biography of a Chess Master" by Art Breen, which can also be found here: http://www.robroy8.com/chess/ARTBRE.... |
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| Aug-10-12 | | wordfunph: Chess Memoirs by Dr. Joseph Platz
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chess-Memoi... |
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Aug-11-12
 | | perfidious: Just tracked down Dr Platz' missing game from the 1948 US Championship (vs Anthony Santasiere). Submitted to CG. |
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| Jun-03-14 | | grasser: I took a few lessons from Dr. Platz in the late 70's. He was very kind and taught me for free as my Dad was to cheap to pay him. I have paid it forward for many years now, teaching kids 6 days a week in Bergen County New Jersey. |
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| Oct-03-14 | | master of defence: Apparently, there's a game of Dr. Joseph Platz against a guy called 'Just' that took place in Germany(Not sure which is the city), 1972, which isn't on chessgames.com so far. After several moves, this position has been reached: 
click for larger viewThen, Dr. Platz has showed off his skills and pulled off a mate in 8 with 1.Qxh7+! Kxh7 2.Rh1+ Kg8 3.Nh6+ Kh8/h7 4.Nf7+ Kg8 5.Rh8+ Kxf7 6.Rh7+ Kg8 7.Rg7+ Kh8 8.Rh1#. Does anyone have the complete score of this game, in order to sumbit it here? Thanks in advance. |
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Oct-03-14
| | perfidious: If 1972 is the correct year, it may well have been Hans Platz who played White, for Dr Platz had long since emigrated from Germany. |
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| Oct-03-14 | | master of defence: You may be indeed correct <perfidious>, given that after 1933, when Adolf Hitler become the 'Führer', Dr. Platz has moved from Germany to United States, as indicates his biography here. But looking at Hans Platz's profile here, he also doesn't have the game from 1972 I mentioned. If we'd just have the complete game score, it would be great. |
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| Sep-08-15 | | wrap99: <grasser> saw you mention platz in another thread and now I see that you mention your dad was "too cheap" to pay for lessons. Though years later, I am horrified at the possibility that your dad welshed on an agreement. He didn't, right: He just said he wouldn't pay for lessons? The thought that an old man who needed money and supported himself through chess being cheated is more than I can bear. |
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| Apr-11-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Joseph Platz. |
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| Apr-16-23 | | Nosnibor: He also had four draws against Emanuel Lasker in 1940.These were all played in New York and two of them at Lasker`s house. They are detailed in Platz Chess Memoirs in 1979. |
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