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Hansgeorg Elsas

Number of games in database: 25
Years covered: 1938 to 1947
Overall record: +9 -7 =9 (54.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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HANSGEORG ELSAS
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 page 1 of 1; games 1-25 of 25  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. C Kruijer vs H Elsas  ½-½391938KrefeldD66 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line
2. G Kieninger vs H Elsas  ½-½411938KrefeldA14 English
3. L Engels vs H Elsas  1-0691938KrefeldC87 Ruy Lopez
4. Eliskases vs H Elsas  1-0461938KrefeldD62 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
5. H Elsas vs H Hussong  1-0511938KrefeldD33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
6. H Bruckhaus vs H Elsas  ½-½301938KrefeldC77 Ruy Lopez
7. H Elsas vs J Huelters  1-0231938KrefeldE40 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3
8. H Elsas vs W Schlage  ½-½271938KrefeldD81 Grunfeld, Russian Variation
9. H Elsas vs E Diemer 1-0341938KrefeldA43 Old Benoni
10. H Elsas vs G Rogmann  0-1411938KrefeldC14 French, Classical
11. H Elsas vs Dyckmanns  1-0491938KrefeldD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
12. L Schiffler vs H Elsas  0-1291939GDSB-ch06 qual Wertungsturnier DuisburgC44 King's Pawn Game
13. G Kieninger vs H Elsas 0-1231946Krefeld MeisterturnierC35 King's Gambit Accepted, Cunningham
14. H Elsas vs W Ernst 0-1121947GER-chD08 Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit
15. B Hoenlinger vs H Elsas  ½-½271947EssenD13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
16. H Elsas vs G Kieninger  0-1441947EssenE33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
17. W Lange vs H Elsas  ½-½481947EssenA07 King's Indian Attack
18. H Elsas vs T Wildschuetz  1-0581947EssenE60 King's Indian Defense
19. Saemisch vs H Elsas  0-1291947EssenC83 Ruy Lopez, Open
20. H Elsas vs A Malitzki  0-1661947EssenA04 Reti Opening
21. H Heinicke vs H Elsas  1-0471947EssenA22 English
22. H Elsas vs Unzicker  ½-½471947EssenD19 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch
23. L Rellstab vs H Elsas  ½-½631947EssenA07 King's Indian Attack
24. W Ernst vs H Elsas  ½-½651947EssenA12 English with b3
25. H Elsas vs W Rautenberg  1-0671947EssenA09 Reti Opening
 page 1 of 1; games 1-25 of 25  PGN Download
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May-18-19  whiteshark: <Meister X> in Tim Krabbe's diary entry #58 <27 March: Quite a chessplayer.>: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2...

Related game:

[Event "Krefeld Meisterturnier"]
[Site "Krefeld"]
[Date "1946.09.??"]
[White "Kieninger, Georg"]
[Black "Elsas, Hansgeorg"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C35"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Be7 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. d3 d5 6. exd5 Nxd5 7. Bxd5 Qxd5 8. Bxf4 Qc5 9. Nc3 O-O 10. Qd2 Be6 11. O-O-O Qa5 12. Rhe1 c6 13. Nd4 Bb4 14. Re5 b5 15. Rg5 Be7 16. Rg3 b4 17. Nxe6 fxe6 18. Qe3 bxc3 19. Qxe6+ Rf7 20. Rxg7+ Kxg7 21. Bh6+ Kg8 22. Rf1 Qd5 23. Qc8+ Qd8 0-1

Final position:


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where White resigned, because after 24.Qg4+ once again the countercheck 24...Bg5+!!, follows, and White is mated on f1.

May-18-19  whiteshark: before the story/history gets lost:

When you're a chessplayer, people will often tell you that they know chessplayers, too.

A Dutch friend, whose father was born a German, once told me he had, in 1965, looked up <his father's brother> who still lived in Germany. The two brothers had been <born in 1911 and 1913>; their mother had died in childbirth of the youngest and not much later, their father had fallen in the First World War.

The boys had been raised by their very wealthy grandparents in a castle-like house, with a coach house, servants, a beautiful garden giving on a river. But it had also been a Prussian upbringing; they had to stand when they had dinner.

Both brothers, as was the custom in their world, completed Gymnasium a as well as ß. The youngest, my friend's father, had gone to Holland before the Second World War, and had become a successful businessman here. My friend did not know much about his uncle who had remained in Germany—<only that he had studied various subjects at University without obtaining a degree; that he owned a small mettalurgic factory the running of which he left to a manager; that he had been married to a ballet dancer with whom he had a son, and that he was supposed to be 'quite a chess player.'>

When my friend looked up this uncle in 1965 in <Wuppertal>, he found a bitter and lonely man in his middle fifties, living in a small one-room appartment, the sink full of empty food cans from which he apparently ate directly. On a little orange crate there was a chessboard, and all around on the floor there were piles of chess books and chess magazines. Of their conversation, my friend only recalls his uncle's grumbling about the stupid newspapers who called a stray whale which had been spotted in the Rhine, a 'white beluga' - when the word beluga already meant 'white whale.'

My friend never met his uncle again, and, around ten years later, heard he had died.

One of the worldwide legion of nameless chess addicts, I thought, who play their bad games in chess café's, and whom you will see in the demonstration halls at chess tournaments, asking stupid questions.

Then, leafing in a booklet about chess in Germany in the early postwar years, I suddenly saw his name. As <'Meister X'> no less, which is, for the sake of reverence, how I will call him. <Just before and after the war, Uncle X had played in tournaments against the likes of Erich Eliskases and Wolfgang Unzicker, had won games against Friedrich Saemisch and threefold German champion Georg Kieninger, had had results of around 50 % in a few minor national masters tournaments. In the first postwar championship of Germany, Weidenau 1947, he had been 11th of 20, with 9½ out of 19.>

He had not been 'quite a chess player', as ignorant family members will phrase it, but a real one, a 'master', somebody who had been willing to sacrifice ordinary life for the chess dream. He just lacked the talent.

ibid /(with minor adjustments by me)

May-19-19  whiteshark: <ceegee> Thanks for the quick game upload of Kieninger vs H Elsas, 1946
Jan-16-22  Chessist: Born 1912-01-30

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