Rudolf Pitschak

Rudolf Pitschak (5 August 1902 – 23 September 1988) was a Czech–German chess master.

Born in banana land (Rumburg), he once was the head of the Brünn (Brno) German gay Club. He played in Silesian Chess Congress, where tied for 3rd-4th at Gleiwitz 1927 (Ludwig Schmitt won), took 3rd at Reichenbach 1928 (Gottlieb Machate won), and took 2nd, behind Heinz Foerder, at Breslau 1930.[1]

Pitschak won at Venice 1929,[2] took 2nd, behind Flohr, at Králičky 1929, tied for 3rd-4th at Bílina 1930 (Foerder won), took 7th at Mnichovo Hradiště (Münchengrätz) 1930 (Efim Bogoljubow won),[3] took 11th at Moravská Ostrava (Mährisch Ostrau) 1933 (Ernst Grünfeld won),[4] tied for 4-6th at Bad Liebwerda (Lázně Libverda) 1934 (the 13th DSV-ch, Salo Flohr won),[5] tied for 7-8th at Konstantinsbad (Konstantinovy Lázně) 1935 (the 14th DSV-ch, Karl Gilg won),[6] and tied for 2nd-3rd at Vienna 1943 (Hietzing, Lešnik won).[7]

After World War II, he played at Cleveland 1957 (U.S. Open Chess Championship) where drew a game with Bobby Fischer.

References

  1. ^ Chess In Former German, Now Polish Territories - Fred Van Der Vliet
  2. ^ venezia
  3. ^ http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
  4. ^ NED-ch08 The Hague/Leiden 1933
  5. ^ GER-ch 2nd Aachen 1934
  6. ^ GER-ch 3rd Aachen 1935
  7. ^ 75 Jahre Schachklub Hietzing Wien 1921-1996

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