ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2017
Jezik: Englesko-Nemacki
Oblast: Šah
Autor: Strani

Tvrd povez sa plastificiranim luksuznim omotom, veci format (25 cm), br.strana 320, Published 2017 god. Autori - Eva Regina Magacs i Michael Negele
Stanje - odlicno 5 (nova, nekoriscena, izvadjena iz celofana zbog slikanja)

PAUL FELIX SCHMIDT
A Winning Formula

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If you ever looked at game collections by Paul Keres chances are that you came across the name Paul Felix Schmidt. `Schmidt` is a very German name but like Keres Schmidt was Estonian - at least politically. He had a German-Baltic background and like Keres Schmidt was born in Narva. The two were also born in the same year: Keres on January 7, 1916, Schmidt on August 20, 1916.

The biographies and chess careers of Keres and Schmidt were both heavily influenced by the turbulent times into which they were born. In 1916 Estonia was still part of the czarist Russian Empire but after World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Estonian War of Independence, Estonia became independent in 1920. But in 1940, during the Second World War and after the German-Soviet-Non-aggression Pact, the country was occupied by Soviet troops. However, in June 1941 the Germans broke the Non-aggression pact, invaded the Soviet Union, and occupied Estonia in July 41. But in 1944, when the German armies were retreating in the East, the Soviets reoccupied Estonia again. After the end of the Second World War Keres became a Soviet citizen while Schmidt moved to the Southwest of Germany and later emigrated to the USA.

17 of the games which Keres and Schmidt played from 1933 to 1943 have survived and found their way into the databases. Surprisingly, the score in these games is absolutely equal: both won six times and five games were drawn. Seven of these 17 games were played in a match that Keres and Schmidt contested in 1936 and that ended 3½-3½.

If you have a life-time equal score against Keres you must have been a very strong player. Which Schmidt was indeed: in 1936 and 1937 he was National Champion of Estonia and played for Estonia in two Chess Olympiads. In 1941 he shared first place with Klaus Junge at the German Championship in Bad Oeynhausen and later won the tie-break and the title.

In 1939, at the outbreak of World War II, Schmidt was 23 years old, and during the war he played in several tournaments in German territory. In 1941, at the Championship of the General Government (the occupied Poland) he shared first place with Alexander Alekhine. According to statistician Jeff Sonas at that time Schmidt had a historical rating of 2696 and was the world`s number nine.

After the end of the war Schmidt, who was a graduated chemist, played a couple of tournaments in Germany and got his PhD in chemistry from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. In 1949 he published his little book Schachmeister denken (Chessmasters think) and in 1952 he decided to emigrate to the US. In Philadelphia he began a new life as a chemist and vanished from the world of chess which soon hardly remembered him.

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