Hugo Süchting (8 October 1874, Brackrade

Bosau

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 - 27 December 1916, Valluhn

Lüttow-Valluhn

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) was a German chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 player.

He won at Kiel 1893 (the 8th DSB Congress

DSB Congress

The Deutschen Schachbund had been founded in Leipzig on 18 July 1877. When the next meeting took place in the Schützenhaus on 15 July 1879, sixty-two clubs had become member of the chess federation. Hofrat Rudolf von Gottschall became Chairman and Hermann Zwanziger the General Secretary...

, Hauptturnier) took 13th at Leipzig 1894 (the 9th DSB-Congress, Siegbert Tarrasch

Siegbert Tarrasch

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 won), shared 2nd with Ignatz von Popiel

Ignatz von Popiel

Ignatz von Popiel was a Polish-Ukrainian chess player.-Biography:...

, behind Robert Henry Barnes

Robert Henry Barnes

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, at Eisenach 1896 (the 10th DSB-Congress), and took 15th at Berlin 1897 (Rudolf Charousek won). He played also in quadrangular tournaments; took 2nd (Altona 1897), and twice shared 1st (Elmshorn 1898, Kiel 1900).

In the 20th century, he tied for 14-15th at Hannover 1902 (the 13th DSB-Congress won by Dawid Janowski

Dawid Janowski

Dawid Markelowicz Janowski was a leading Polish chess master and subsequent French citizen....

), won at Hamburg 1903, tied for 8-9th at Coburg 1904 (the 14th DSB-Congress, Curt von Bardeleben

Curt von Bardeleben

Curt von Bardeleben was a Count and a German chess master who committed suicide by jumping out of a window in 1924. His life and death were the basis for that of the main character in the novel The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov, which was made into the movie The Luzhin Defence...

, Carl Schlechter

Carl Schlechter

Carl Schlechter was a leading Austrian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker.-Early life:...

 and Rudolf Swiderski

Rudolf Swiderski

Rudolf Swiderski was a German chess master.He took 6th at Eisenach 1896 , took 2nd at Annaberg 1897, tied for 7-8th at Berlin 1897, and tied for 3-6th in Amsterdam. He made his mark in 1900 when he won 1st place at the Munich Hauptturnier...

 won), tied for 11-12th at Barmen 1905 (Géza Maróczy

Géza Maróczy

Géza Maróczy was a leading Hungarian chess Grandmaster, one of the best players in the world in his time. He was also a practicing engineer.-Early career:...

 and Janowski won), tied for 5-6th at Stockholm 1906 (Ossip Bernstein

Ossip Bernstein

Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein was a Russian chess grandmaster and a financial lawyer.-Biography:...

 and Schlechter won), tied for 18-19th at Ostend 1907 (Bernstein and Akiba Rubinstein

Akiba Rubinstein

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 won), tied for 13-14th at Prague 1908 (Oldřich Duras

Oldrich Duras

Oldřich Duras was a leading Czech chess master of the early 20th century...

 and Schlechter won), tied for 16-18th at Vienna 1908 (Duras, Maróczy and Schlechter won), tied for 6-7th at Düsseldorf 1908 (the 16th DSB-Congress, Frank Marshall won), and tied for 14-16th at Carlsbad 1911 (Richard Teichmann

Richard Teichmann

Richard Teichmann was a German chess master.He was known as "Richard the Fifth" because he often finished in fifth place in tournaments. But in Karlsbad 1911, he scored a convincing win, crushing Akiba Rubinstein and Carl Schlechter with the same line of the Ruy Lopez...

 won).

He won two matches against Paul Saladin Leonhardt (2.5 : 1.5) and Carl Carls

Carl Carls

Carl Carls was a German chess master.In 1922, he took 2nd, behind Erhardt Post, in Bad Oeynhausen...

(2 : 1), both at Hamburg 1911, and drew a match with Leonhardt (2 : 2) at Hamburg 1912.

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