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Karl Gilg
Gilg 
Deutsche Schachblaetter 1938, p71  

Number of games in database: 368
Years covered: 1921 to 1980
Overall record: +178 -90 =99 (62.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 1 exhibition game, blitz/rapid, odds game, etc. is excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (29) 
    B32 B63 B58 B84 B91
 Queen's Pawn Game (26) 
    D02 A46 A45 E10 E00
 Ruy Lopez (19) 
    C70 C83 C84 C80 C75
 Orthodox Defense (15) 
    D55 D51 D63 D64 D56
 Queen's Indian (15) 
    E12 E19 E16 E17 E15
 French Defense (15) 
    C11 C14 C05 C19 C13
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (46) 
    B73 B45 B50 B27 B44
 Nimzo Indian (18) 
    E34 E44 E39 E32 E48
 Sicilian Dragon (17) 
    B73 B74 B72 B71 B75
 Queen's Indian (13) 
    E16 E12 E17 E14 E19
 Orthodox Defense (9) 
    D63 D51 D64 D60 D68
 Sicilian Taimanov (8) 
    B45
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Alekhine vs Gilg, 1926 0-1
   Gilg vs Rubinstein, 1929 1-0
   H Heinicke vs Gilg, 1940 0-1
   Eliskases vs Gilg, 1934 0-1
   Gilg vs I Censer, 1927 1-0
   Gilg vs H Reiter, 1936 1-0
   Gilg vs A Westermeier, 1970 1-0
   A Hamming vs Gilg, 1936 0-1
   Gilg vs Alekhine, 1927 1/2-1/2
   Gilg vs Menchik, 1929 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Teplitz-Schoenau (1937)
   Bad Liebwerda (1934)
   German Championship (1939)
   Stubnianske Teplice (1930)
   Bad Elster (1938)
   Prague (1937)
   non-FIDE Munich Olympiad (1936)
   Moravska Ostrava (1933)
   Kecskemet (1927)
   Semmering (1926)
   Karlsbad (1929)
   London Olympiad (1927)
   The Hague Olympiad (1928)
   Prague Olympiad (1931)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   German Championship 1939 by Tabanus
   6th German Championship - Bad Oeynhausen 1939 by Pawn and Two


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KARL GILG
(born Jan-20-1901, died Dec-04-1981, 80 years old) Germany

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Karl Gilg was born in Mankendorf, Austrian Silesia*. A Sudeten German, he played for Czechoslovakia in the Olympiads of 1927, 1928 and 1931. He moved to Germany during the Second World War, and played for West Germany in the European Team Championship of 1957. He was awarded the IM title in 1953.

*Wikipedia article: Austrian Silesia

Wikipedia article: Karl Gilg. See also https://www.chessscotland.com/docum...

Last updated: 2020-04-14 05:42:34

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 page 1 of 15; games 1-25 of 368  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Gilg vs E Zabodroczky  1-0321921BrunnC83 Ruy Lopez, Open
2. Gilg vs J Schindler 0-1291921corrC83 Ruy Lopez, Open
3. Gilg vs J Schindler  ½-½271921corrC83 Ruy Lopez, Open
4. Gilg vs E Kipke  ½-½271922Oeynhausen-Hauptturnier IIIA44 Old Benoni Defense
5. Jobst vs Gilg  0-1361922Teplitz-SchoenauD60 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
6. B Moritz vs Gilg 1-0161922Bad OeynhausenE10 Queen's Pawn Game
7. Gilg vs W Schoenmann  1-0531925DSB-24.Kongress Hauptturnier AE72 King's Indian
8. Alekhine vs Gilg 0-1521925Blindfold simul, 2bC77 Ruy Lopez
9. Gilg vs M Bluemich  1-0711926DSV KongressE19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3
10. Gilg vs J Lokvenc  ½-½311926DSV KongressE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
11. I Koenig vs Gilg  ½-½301926DSV KongressB44 Sicilian
12. Gilg vs H Wagner  ½-½301926DSV KongressD64 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
13. B Moritz vs Gilg 0-1291926DSV KongressD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
14. Gilg vs B Hoenlinger  ½-½311926DSV KongressD12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
15. W Hilse vs Gilg  ½-½421926DSV KongressA14 English
16. A Duenmann vs Gilg  ½-½321926DSV KongressA17 English
17. P Leonhardt vs Gilg  1-0281926DSV KongressB44 Sicilian
18. Gilg vs S R Wolf  1-0491926DSV KongressA41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6)
19. Gilg vs Hromadka  ½-½681926Maehrisch OstrauD12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
20. Hromadka vs Gilg  ½-½421926Maehrisch OstrauA07 King's Indian Attack
21. Gilg vs W Von Holzhausen  1-0381926DSV KongressD13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
22. Spielmann vs Gilg  ½-½391926SemmeringB44 Sicilian
23. Gilg vs A Nimzowitsch 0-1241926SemmeringA81 Dutch
24. Alekhine vs Gilg 0-1671926SemmeringA52 Budapest Gambit
25. A Vajda vs Gilg  ½-½321926SemmeringB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
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Jun-08-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  Benzol: <Perhaps <Benzol> can fill you in.:)>

Finally got there!

:)

Aug-13-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  Gypsy: 01/20/1901 Gilg, Karl born in Mankendorf (= Mankovice), Czechoslovakia. IM 1953. West German. http://mankovice.cz/encyklopedie/ob...
Jan-20-06  BIDMONFA: Karl Gilg

GILG, Karl
http://www.bidmonfa.com/gilg_karl.htm
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Jan-20-06  EmperorAtahualpa: <BIDMONFA> You are the very, very first EVER to have made it into my ignore list. Congratulations!!!
Jun-02-06  themadhair: <BIDMONFA>Unlike <EA> I truly don't believe in ignoring people. But I do have to ask - is there ANY information in the links you post that would make clicking them worthwhile? I mean what is the sense in posting a link on this page to a website that only ends up linking back to this page anyway?
Jun-02-06  better: Well, Bidmonfa finds a photo of every obscure unknown player somehow and loads it up on his site for the curious to see. I don't see anything wrong with that. And one post in every player page is not all that bothering. Better than flooding one page with senseless crap like our friend Armenia and others do.

We all know what is at the other end of these links so don't click it you're not interested.

Jun-05-06  themadhair: <better> I get your point but it is how frequently he/she posts these links that bugs me. It is a clear violation of rule 2 <No spamming, advertising, or duplicating posts.>. I have lost count how many links have been put in the kibitzers cafe. It just bugs me.
Jun-05-06  Calli: <Bidmonfa finds a photo of every obscure unknown player>

You can just Google the images yourself. Thats all he does. Here is the Gilg image he copied :

http://www.toleranz-demokratie.de/j...

Found it in 15 sec. But, in fact, doing it yourself can be far more interesting because you will find out far more about Gilg (or whoever) than you will on bidfonfa.

Sep-27-06  Sleeping kitten: Has anyone remarked this guy had a positive score against both Alekhine and Rubinstein ? And even a very strong score against Eliskases ? Well, at the opposite, he wasn't that lucky against Nimzowitsch and Vidmar, who have an overall 100% score against him.
Nov-11-07  whiteshark: more details about his bio:
English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_G...
German:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_G...

the young Gilg (top left):
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Sep-02-08  TheaN: <EmperorAtahualpa: <BIDMONFA> You are the very, very first EVER to have made it into my ignore list. Congratulations!!!>

No offense EA, but yours are actually the kind of posts that induce people to click the ignore button. No reason, plain sarcasm: I don't see a reason to ignore BIDMONFA: <Calli> has a point, but it's still nice that you don't have to search for the not posted pictures yourself. In that, BIDMONFA doesn't do anything wrong. Also, <themadhair>, if this somehow were to be a violation, CG would've flagged or banned BIDMONFA a long time ago.

Sep-02-08  whiteshark: That's right, <TheaN>!

Karl Gilg's Chess Olympiad participations:
http://www.olimpbase.org/players/tx...

Jan-20-09  WhiteRook48: great choice for player of the day.
Jan-20-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: Happy Birthday!
Jan-20-12  Eduardo Bermudez: Gilg against Alekhine did the same Botvinnik to Capablanca, he won first in simuls and then in tournament game !!
Aug-06-12  markwell: More revisionist history. There was no Czechoslovakia in 1901. Gilg was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, ended up in Czechoslovkia-along with several million other ethnic Germans, which is what Austrians are- and was forcibly expelled after WWII.
Nov-06-13  Karpova: Karbitz (today Chabařovice), Main Tournament of the 3rd Chess Congress of the German Chess Association of Czechoslovakia, 1924:

1. Gilg 8.0
2. Dr. Zimmer 7.5
3-6. Bauer 6.5
3-6. Trinks 6.5
3-6. Dr. Schindler 6.5
3-6. Klieber 6.5

(probably incomplete, the paper says that they didn't receive more information)

From page 272 of the September 1924 'Neue Wiener Schachzeitung'

Dec-10-13  Karpova: Main Tournament A of the German Chess Federation in Czechoslovakia in Aussig (Ústí nad Labem), 1923:

1. K Gilg 7.5
2. K Baumgartl
3-4. O Trinks
3-4. Fr(anz?) Palitsch
5. J Schindler

No points are given and these are only the prize-winners.

From page 240 of the September 1923 'Neue Wiener Schachzeitung'

Jan-20-16  TheFocus: Happy birthday, Karl Gilg.
Feb-22-17  Paarhufer: For those who like to read about Gilg, and who are not afraid of the German language, I mention a booklet by Schmitzer & Wimmer titled <Karl Gilg> with the subtitle <Internationaler Meister 1901 - 1981> (only within the book), published Rosenheim 1987.

The booklet comes with a preface by GM Lothar Schmid, a three page biography (mainly chess), a tournament overview and one-hundred annotated games (96 pages).

Nov-28-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  Gypsy: <markwell: More revisionist history. There was no Czechoslovakia in 1901. Gilg was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, ended up in Czechoslovkia-along with several million other ethnic Germans, which is what Austrians are- and was forcibly expelled after WWII.>

From archives:
< In 1938, Gilg changed his citizenship to become German. >

Thus Gilg became a Reich German (Reichsdeutsche) and was in the group of ethnic Germans that Podsdam Agreement (Allied Powers: USSR, England, USA, and, to some extent, France) directed to be re-settled within the Allied occupation zones in Germany and Austria. (Nearly a quarter million of ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) that did not change their Czechoslovak affiliation stayed in place.)

<There was no Czechoslovakia in 1901. Gilg was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire ...>

Forgive me my expediency in the service of brevity; Gilg was a Czechoslovak when he was most internationally active.

Remains me of an old Rusyn I once met on a train. He claimed to have lived in 7 different countries, over a few decades, without ever moving from his house in Mukachevo. He too was born in Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Nov-28-18  Petrosianic: <Gypsy>: <Remains me of an old Rusyn I once met on a train. He claimed to have lived in 7 different countries, over a few decades, without ever moving from his house in Mukachevo. He too was born in Austro-Hungarian Empire.>

Have you ever heard that old joke?

"Where were you born?"

"Tsaritsyn."

"Where did you grow up?"

"Stalingrad."

"Where do you live now?"

"Volgograd."

"Where would you like to live?"

"Tsaritsyn."

Nov-29-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  Gypsy: <Petrosianic> Oh that is a delicious joke. Many thanks!
Jul-14-20  Alan McGowan: Gilg was a prisoner of war in East Lothian, Scotland at the end of World War Two.

It is suspected that he may have been 'smuggled' into Edinburgh Chess Club. https://www.chessscotland.com/docum...

Jul-14-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: <Gilg was a prisoner of war in East Lothian, Scotland at the end of World War Two.>

After three days, he requested a transfer to Kolyma.

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