Alfred Brinckmann (3 January 1891 – 30 May 1967) was a German chess International Master, author and functionary from

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The chess player

He participated eight times in the

German Chess Championship The German Chess Championship has been played since 1861, and determines the national champion. Prior to 1880, three different federations organized chess activities in Germany: the ''Westdeutscher Schachbund'' (WDSB), the ''Norddeutscher Schachbund ...

in the period 1921-1949. His greatest success took place at Berlin 1927, where he took first place ahead of considerable masters such as

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, Efim Bogoljubow and Friedrich Sämisch. During

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, when

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was the Chief Executive of the ''Grossdeutscher Schachbund'', Brinckmann took 16th at Bad Oeynhausen 1940 (7th GER-ch, Georg Kieninger won); took 3rd at Hamburg 1941 ( Klaus Junge and Herbert Heinicke won); took 7th at Warsaw/Lublin/Kraków 1942 (the 3rd General Government chess tournament,

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won), and took 3rd at Madrid 1943 (

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won). In 1953 he became an International Master. In 1965 he was appointed an honorary member of the ''Kieler Schachgesellschaft''.

The author

He wrote numerous books, among them several biographies (i.e. about

Efim Bogoljubov Efim Bogoljubow ( or ), also known as Ewfim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow, ( (); also Romanized ''Bogoljubov'', ''Bogolyubov''; uk, Юхим Дмитрович Боголюбов, Yukhym Dmytrovych Boholiubov; April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952) ...

) and tournament reports. There is a controversial book ''Chess master in the fight: Views for the chess of the present'' (1940), in which some Nazi ideas were represented.Edmund Bruns: Das Schachspiel als Phänomen der Kulturgeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2003. .

The functionary

In the post-war period, he also worked considerably at the reestablishment of the German chess federation - ''Deutscher Schachbund (DSB)''. Brinckmann was a secretary of the DSB (1950–1967), and an arbiter (1962–1967). He was awarded the ''Golden honour needle of the German Chess Federation'' in 1966.

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Chess games of Alfred Brinckmann
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