Wilhelm Orbach
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Wilhelm Orbach was a German chess
master.
He took 3rd at Oeynhausen 1922 (22nd DSB–Congress, B tourn); took 4th at Frankfurt 1923 (23rd DSB–Congress, B tourn); tied for 3rd-4th at Breslau 1925 (24th DSB–Congress, B tourn); won at Frankfurt am Main 1925 (City championship); took 2nd at Ems 1926 (Quadrangular).
Orbach won at Hyères 1927; took 4th at Homburg 1927 (Efim Bogoljubow
won); tied for 4-5th at Giessen 1928 (Richard Réti
won); took 11th at Duisburg 1929 (26th DSB–Congress, Carl Ahues
won); took 12th at Frankfurt 1930 (Aron Nimzowitsch
won);
took 6th at Paris (L'Echiquier) 1938 (Baldur Hoenlinger won).
He was murdered in Auschwitz
.
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...
master.
He took 3rd at Oeynhausen 1922 (22nd DSB–Congress, B tourn); took 4th at Frankfurt 1923 (23rd DSB–Congress, B tourn); tied for 3rd-4th at Breslau 1925 (24th DSB–Congress, B tourn); won at Frankfurt am Main 1925 (City championship); took 2nd at Ems 1926 (Quadrangular).
Orbach won at Hyères 1927; took 4th at Homburg 1927 (Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...
won); tied for 4-5th at Giessen 1928 (Richard Réti
Richard Réti
Réti composed one of the most famous chess studies, shown in this diagram. It was published in Ostrauer Morgenzeitung 4 December 1921. It seems impossible for the white king to catch the advanced black pawn, while the white pawn can be easily stopped by the black king...
won); took 11th at Duisburg 1929 (26th DSB–Congress, Carl Ahues
Carl Ahues
Carl Oscar Ahues was a German chess International Master.He was Berlin champion in 1910. He was German Champion in 1929 winning the 26th DSB Congress in Duisburg. In 1930, he took 6th in San Remo , tied for 4-5th in Scarborough , and tied for 3-5th in Liege...
won); took 12th at Frankfurt 1930 (Aron Nimzowitsch
Aron Nimzowitsch
Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born Danish unofficial chess grandmaster and a very influential chess writer...
won);
took 6th at Paris (L'Echiquier) 1938 (Baldur Hoenlinger won).
He was murdered in Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp
Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...
.