Ludwig Engels
Ludwig Engels ( born December 11, 1905 in Dusseldorf, † January 10, 1967 in São Paulo ) was a German chess master.
Life
His father Louis was born on 11 May 1865 in Barmen, but there is no familial relationship with the entrepreneur and philosopher Friedrich Engels detectable. Ludwig Engels' name appears on the list of club champions of the Düsseldorf Chess Association of 1854 (DSV 1854) for the first time in 1923. It followed him many years of active and successful chess game and Trainertums.
In the years 1931-1934 he played three matches against Georg Kieninger what its development to the master player has been very beneficial. Among his greatest chess successes include 2nd place at the International Tournament in Dresden in 1936, where he behind Alexander Alekhine - he struck in a direct comparison - but before Géza Maroczy, Gideon Ståhlberg, Efim Bogolyubov, Friedrich Sämisch, Paul Keres, among others landed. In the same year he was a member of the German team at the unofficial Chess Olympiad in Munich, which won 3rd place behind Hungary and Poland. In the winter of 1936/37, he worked as a chess trainer in Iceland.
In 1939, Ludwig Engels in Buenos Aires Olympic Champion with the German (actually: " Greater Germany ", ie German - Austrian ) team; He was here with his result ( 12, = 4, -0 ) is the most successful German players. The outbreak of World War II moved the entire team ( Eliskases, Michel, Engels, Becker, Reinhardt ) to stay in South America.
1941 Engels settled in São Paulo. Late as 1957 he was fifth in the South American zone tournament. When Ludwig Engels died in São Paulo in 1967, he should have still been in the possession of the Club Cup, which he won in 1923 at DSV 1854. The club Sao Paulo of 1902 ( " CXSP " ), in which Engels held a trainer activities, organized today a tournament every year in his memory. Also a annual forming Ludwig Angel Memorial Tournament was launched in the wake of the 150th anniversary of the DSV 1854 in 2004.
Angel reached his best Historical Elo rating of 2636 in March 1941., 1940, he was according to these calculations in 19th place in the world rankings.