Siegfried Reginald Wolf (19 December 1867—5 January 1951) was an

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who competed in top European tournaments from the 1890s to the early 1930s. A native of

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(until 1918, the capital of the

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province of Bohemia), Siegfried Reginald Wolf played all of his tournaments in

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. He took 8th (

Jacques Schwarz Jacques Schwarz (January 1856 – 13 June 1921) was an Austrian chess master. Born in Moravia, he tied for 5–6th at Graz 1880 (Adolf Schwarz, Johannes Minckwitz and Max Weiss won). In 1881, he tied for 7–8th in Berlin (2nd DSB-Kongress, Jose ...

won) in 1893; took 10th (

Georg Marco Georg Marco (29 November 1863 – 29 August 1923) was an Austrian chess player. He was born in Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi), Bukovina (then part of Austria-Hungary). He later settled in Vienna and was secretary of the Viennese Chess Association. I ...

won) in 1897; took 2nd, behind Julius Perlis, in 1901; took 6th (

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in 1912; tied for 9-10th (

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won) in 1923; took 4th ( Albert Becker won) in 1924; shared 1st (with Becker) in the 1925 Austrian Championship; took 6th (

Rudolf Spielmann Rudolf Spielmann (5 May 1883 – 20 August 1942) was a Jewish-Austrian chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer. Career Spielmann was born in 1883, third child of Moritz and Cecilia Spielmann, and had a younger brother Edgar, an o ...

won) in 1926; tied for 7-8th ( Karl Gilg and Heinrich Wagner won) in 1926; tied for 5-7th (

Ernst Grünfeld ---- Ernst Franz Grünfeld (November 21, 1893 – April 3, 1962) was an Austrian chess player and writer, mainly on opening theory. He was among the inaugural recipients of the grandmaster title in 1950. Life and career Grünfeld was bo ...

won) in 1927; took 4th ( Hans Müller (chess player) and Becker won) in 1927; tied for 13-14th (

Richard Réti Richard Selig Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian, chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exce ...

won) in 1928, and tied for 12-13th (

Hans Kmoch Johann "Hans" Joseph Kmoch (July 25, 1894, Vienna – February 13, 1973, New York City) was an Austrian-Dutch-American chess International Master (1950), International Arbiter (1951), and a chess journalist and author, for which he is best known. ...

and Spielmann won) in 1929. Wolf represented Austria in the following

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s: * In 1927 at fourth board in the 1st Chess Olympiad in London (+2 –2 =7); * In 1928 at fourth board in the

2nd Chess Olympiad The 2nd Chess Olympiad ( nl, De 2e Schaakolympiade), organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between ...

in The Hague (+3 –3 =6); * In 1930 at first reserve board in the

3rd Chess Olympiad The 3rd Chess Olympiad (german: Die 3. Schacholympiade), organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs, FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place betw ...

in Hamburg (+4 –2 =3).Wolf, Siegfried Reginald
team chess record at olimpbase.org Siegfried Reginald Wolf's career as a chess master ended at the start of the 1930s when he was in his mid-sixties. Following

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's 1933 rise to power in

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and the subsequent

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in 1938, he was able to immigrate to the British mandate of Palestine (which became

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

in 1948) and died in the port city of

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two weeks after his 83rd birthday.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wolf, Siegfried Reginald Austrian chess players Jewish chess players Chess Olympiad competitors Austrian Jews Sportspeople from Prague Game players from Vienna 1867 births 1951 deaths