Paul M. List was a Ukrainian–German–British chess

Chess

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 player.

He was born in Odessa, Ukraine (then Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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). He had a separate chess career in each of the 3 countries he lived in – Russia, Germany and the United Kingdom.

In 1908 List won in Odessa tournament. He drew a match (+4 –4 =1) with Grigory Levenfish

Grigory Levenfish

Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish was a leading Jewish Russian chess grandmaster of the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice Soviet champion - in 1934 and 1937. In 1937 he tied a match against future world champion Mikhail Botvinnik...

 in 1910, he tied for 3rd place at Odessa 1910 (Boris Verlinsky

Boris Verlinsky

Boris Markovich Verlinsky was a Ukrainian-Russian International Master of chess. He was one of the top Soviet players of the 1920s, and was in the top 20 in the world in 1926, clearly of Grandmaster strength at that time...

 won), tied for 15-16th at St. Petersburg 1911 (Stepan Levitsky

Stepan Levitsky

Stepan Levitsky was a Russian chess master and national chess champion....

 won), and tied for fourth with Ilya Rabinovich

Ilya Rabinovich

Ilya Rabinovich was a Russian chess master.-Biography:In 1911 Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich tied for 1st with Platz in Saint Petersburg...

 in the seventh All-Russian Masters' Tournamenr

Russian Chess Championship

-Imperial Russia:In 1874, Emanuel Schiffers defeated Andrey Chardin in a match held in St. Petersburg with five wins and four losses. Schiffers was considered the first Russian champion until his student, Mikhail Chigorin, defeated him in a match held in St. Petersburg in 1879...

 (Hauptturnier) at Vilna 1912, Lithuania (then Russian Empire). The event was won by Karel Hromádka

Karel Hromádka

Karel Hromádka was a Czech chess player, two-time Czech champion, 1913 and 1921 ....

.

In the 1920s he went to Germany and whilst living there he tied for 7th at Berlin

Berlin

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 1926, tied for 6th at Berlin 1927, tied for third at Magdeburg

Magdeburg

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 1927, tied for 5th at Berlin 1928 (Café Koenig), tied for 3rd at Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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 1930, tied for 8th at Swinemünde 1932, and tied for 4th at Ostend

Ostend

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 1937.

In 1938 he went to Britain where he tied for 3rd at Plymouth

Plymouth

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 1938, tied for 2nd at Birmingham

Birmingham

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 1939, was 4th at Hampstead

Hampstead

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 1939, and tied for 1st place with Harry Golombek

Harry Golombek

Harry Golombek OBE , was a British chess International Master and honorary grandmaster, chess arbiter, and chess author. He was three times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955 and finished second in 1948. He became a grandmaster in 1985.He was the chess correspondent of The Times...

 at London

London

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 (Easter) 1940.

After World War II

World War II

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, he took 5th place at Zaandam

Zaandam

Zaandam is a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the main city of the municipality of Zaanstad, and received city rights in 1811...

 1946 (Max Euwe

Max Euwe

Machgielis Euwe was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion . Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.- Early years :Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam...

won).