Paul Lipke

Paul Lipke (* June 30, 1870 in Erfurt, † March 8, 1955 in Osterburg ) was a German chess player. After 1898 he began to withdraw their careers and thus ended his early career champion.

Biography

Lipke was a student at Domgymnasium Magdeburg. After he had graduated from a high school exams in 1892 in Halle, he studied at the University of Halle law and became a law clerk in 1897.

He then worked as a lawyer in hall and Stendal. Later he moved his legal practice. Since the beginning of July 1909, he lived in Osterburg, located about twenty kilometers north of Stendal.

Chess career

Lipke learned the game of chess with approximately 14 years. During his school years he was a member of the Magdeburg club. Already in 1889 he shared the Wrocław Main tournament, which won Emanuel Lasker, 5 / 6 Place with Ignaz von Popiel. Lipkes first major of chess success was winning the Masters Tournament in Dresden in 1892, the (DSB ) authorized under the rules of the German Chess Federation for the championship title and to participate in the international panel DSB congresses.

This was followed by top placings in tournaments in the same year of Halle ( second prize ) and Kiel 1893 ( third prize ). Lipkes biggest success was the second place in the international congress in Leipzig in 1894, behind Siegbert Tarrasch and ahead of players like Richard Teichmann and Joseph Henry Blackburne. In Eisenach in 1896 it came to a contest against Johann Berger, who after seven games ( 1-1 = 5) ended in a draw. In the strong " Emperor 's Jubilee chess tournament" in Vienna in 1898 Lipke shared with Géza Maroczy with 19 participants in eighth place ( it won Tarrasch by tag battle against Pillsbury, followed behind Janowski and Steinitz ).

Lipke was also considered a strong dummy player and played up to ten games simultaneously without view of the board (blind simultaneous ). He was in 1898 alongside Berger editor of the German Chess newspaper and thereby responsible for the editorial section of the part. Lipke was also editor of the 1909 published in Coburg German Chess leaves.

After he had turned away early from the serious tournament chess, chess clubs in Lipke remained active, including (from 1905) at Stendal's chess society. In 1927 he was co-founder of Osterburger chess club, which lasted until the Second World War. Even after that, Lipke involved in the older age at chess life of his native city.

After calculating its historical Elo rating Lipke counted in 1894 with a value of 2725 to the five best players in the world.