| Feb-11-07 | | sambo: He's only got three wins here! Three wins do not a Czech champion make. |
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| Mar-03-08 | | Jason Frost: 3 wins including one over Spielmann, plus draws against Marshall, Reti, Rubenstein, and Tartakover do a Czech Champion in 1923 make. |
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Feb-11-09
 | | whiteshark: On this photograph from the <Maehrisch-Ostrau 1923> tournament you can see Walter standing behind Lasker: http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/histori... |
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| Feb-11-10 | | BIDMONFA: Max Walter WALTER, Max
http://www.bidmonfa.com/walter_max....
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| Feb-11-10 | | waustad: His wiki page claims 1945 as his death year. Perhaps someone with knowledge of the language might look into the sources cited there. |
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Dec-26-11
 | | GrahamClayton: <waustad>His wiki page claims 1945 as his death year. Perhaps someone with knowledge of the language might look into the sources cited there. <waustad>,
According to "Bratislava Pressburg Pozsony" by A. Robert Neurath, Walter died in 1940. |
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Dec-09-12
| | GrahamClayton: Here is a nice finish by Walter, as Black against German in 1926:
click for larger viewThe deflection sacrifice 1...♕c2! forces one of the white pieces to stop defending e1, thus allowing a back-rank mate. 2.♗f4 fails to 2...♕xc1, again removing a defender of the e1 square. |
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| Feb-11-13 | | thomastonk: <Player of Today>
The English Wikipedia has: "Max Walter (born 1899 – died 1945) was a Slovak chess master." So, not only the year of death is different. The Slovak Wikipedia has "Max Walter (* 1896 – † 1940)" and the following remark: "Max Walter apparently died in a concentration camp in 1940, although there is a record of his alleged participation in a tournament in Madrid 1945." |
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| Feb-11-13 | | waustad: Name confusion is not uncommon here and elsewhere. |
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| Dec-09-13 | | Karpova: 8th Congress of the Czechoslovakian Chess Federation in Pardubice, August 5 to 18, 1923. Championship Tournament (11 rounds):
1. Max Walter 8.0
2. Amos Pokorny 7.5
3. Karl Vanek 7.0
4. Sherry* 6.5
5-7. Sifalda 5.5
5-7. Berger (Brno) 5.5
5-7. Prokes 5.5
Further participants were Dr. Hubert Prochazka, Dr. Tereba, Dr. Vitkovsky (Pseudonym), Schulz and Mikulka. 50% of 11.0 points were necessary to gain the <Meisterwürde>, i. e. to become a master. This was reached by all participants down to place 7. Max Walter started with 4 consecutive draws (Sherry, Sifalda, Pokorny and Prokes) and then had a winning streak with the sole exception of a loss against Vitkovsky on time (Walter had a winning position). So his overall score was +6 -1 =4. Sherry scored +2 -0 =9. * Pseudonym, he was from Prague
This game is from the tournament Prokes vs K Vanek, 1923 (although the report has the game ending after 43...Rd4). The game Walter-Vanek may be submitted later. Source: Pages 209-213 of the September 1923 'Neue Wiener Schachzeitung' |
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| Feb-11-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Max Walter. |
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Feb-11-18
 | | Telemus: Yad Vashem's Central DB of Shoah Victims' Names has a Max Walter with the following: Date of Birth: 12/01/1894
Place of Birth: Brno
Deported from: Moravska Ostrava
Destination of deportation: Nisko, Camp, Poland
Deported: 17/10/1939 - 26/10/1939
Source: List of Jews deported from Moravska Ostrava to Nisko camp, 17/10/1939 and 26/10/1939. |
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| Mar-25-22 | | Jan Kersten: There is an extensive biography now about Max Walter and his brother Jacob, with more than 150 games, viz. https://www.chess.sk/download/dokum...
It seems he did indeed escape to Spain and played some tournaments there around 1945.
But this has to be checked by someone who can read Czech. |
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