Alzenau
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, 27 December 1905 –
La Plata
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, 14 September 1977) was a
German
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–
Argentine
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chess
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master.
Biography
In June 1935, Michel tied for 3rd-4th in Saarbrücken (Koch won). In July 1935, he tied for 2nd-4th in Aachen (3rd German Championship). The event was won by Kurt Richter. In September 1935, he took 9th in Bad Saarow (
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow, also known as Efim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow (April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952), was a Russian-born German Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster.
Early career
Bogoljubow learned how to play chess at 15 years old, and dev ...
won). In June 1936, he tied for 5th-6th in Swinemünde ( Erich Eliskases won). In August 1936, he played for Germany at second reserve board (+8 –1 =3) in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad in Munich. He won team bronze medal and individual silver medal.
In October 1936, he tied for 3rd-5th in Vienna (19th Trebitsch). The event was won by Henryk Friedman. In June 1937, he took 3rd, after Bogoljubow and Ludwig Rellstab, in Bad Elster. In June–July 1937, he tied for 4-6th in Bad Saarow (Richter and Kuppe won). In July–August 1937, he took 4th in Bad Oeynhausen (4th GER-ch). The event was won by Georg Kieninger. In March 1938, he took 3rd in Berlin ( Albert Becker and Rellstab won). In May–June 1938, he took 8th in Bad Elster (Bogoljubow won). In July–August 1938, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Kieninger, behind Eliskases, in Bad Oeynhausen (5th GER-ch). In June 1939, he tied for 2nd-4th in Bad Elster (Eliskases won). In July 1939, he took 14th in Bad Oeynhausen (6th GER-ch). The event was won by Eliskases.
In August–September 1939, he was a member of the German team at the
8th Chess Olympiad
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in Buenos Aires. He played at second board (+3 –0 =11), and won team gold medal. When World War II was broke out, Michel along with all German players (Eliskases,
Reinhardt) and many other participants of the Olympiad decided to stay permanently in Argentina.
In 1941, he took 4th, after
Gideon Ståhlberg
Anders Gideon Tom Ståhlberg (26 January 1908 – 26 May 1967) was a Swedish chess player. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950.
He won the Swedish Chess Championship of 1927, became No ...
,
Miguel Najdorf
Miguel Najdorf ( ; born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf; 15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in 1939, and he stayed and settled there. He was a leadin ...
Hermann Pilnik
Hermann Pilnik (8 January 1914, Stuttgart, Germany – 12 November 1981, Caracas, Venezuela) was a German Argentines, German-born Argentine chess Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster.
Career
In 1929, he won the championship of Stuttgart. Pilnik emi ...
, in Buenos Aires, and tied for 10-12th in the Mar del Plata 1941 chess tournament (Ståhlberg won). In 1942, he took 5th in Mar del Plata (Najdorf won). In 1943, he took 3rd in Mar del Plata (Najdorf won). In 1944, he tied for 1st-2nd with José María Cristiá in Buenos Aires (La Regence). In 1944, he tied for 3rd-4th, behind Pilnik and Najdorf, in Mar del Plata. In 1945, he took 4th in Buenos Aires (Círculo de Ajedrez; Najdorf won). In 1945, he took 4th in Mar del Plata (Najdorf won).
After the war, Pablo Michel played in Argentina and occasionally in the early 1950s in Austria. In 1946, he took 3rd, behind Najdorf and Ståhlberg, in Mar del Plata. In 1947, he tied for 12-13th in Mar del Plata (Najdorf won). In 1948, he tied for 10-12th in Mar del Plata (Eliskases won). In 1948, he finished 3rd-4th with
Albéric O'Kelly de Galway
Albéric Joseph Rodolphe Marie Robert Ghislain O'Kelly de Galway (17 May 1911 – 3 October 1980) was a Belgium, Belgian chess Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster (1956), an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1962), and the third ICCF ...
, after Najdorf and Ståhlberg, in Buenos Aires (La Plata). In 1949, he won, ahead of Moshe Czerniak and Arturo Pomar, in Rosario. In 1949, he tied for 6-9th in Mar del Plata ( Héctor Rossetto won). In 1950, he tied for 9-11th in Mar del Plata (
Svetozar Gligorić
Svetozar Gligorić ( sr-Cyrl, Светозар Глигорић; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record 11 times, and is considered the best ...
won). In December 1950, he tied for 3rd-4th in Vienna ( Enrico Paoli won). In July 1951, he tied for 5-7th in Vienna (4th Schlechter Memorial). The event was won by Czerniak. In 1952, he took 5th in Mar del Plata ( Julio Bolbochán and Rossetto won).
He was awarded the
International Master
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