Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 01:41:35 08/20/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 04:24:30, Mike S. wrote: >On August 20, 2002 at 03:41:39, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>Pardon my ignorance, but was Süchting a GM? > >I don't think so. Karlsbad 1911 was a before-FIDE event, so there was no GM >title comparable to the present. But a line in the slav defence is named after >him, from a Karlsbad game. > >But he was strong enough to compete in the strongest tournaments of that time, >for example: > >Duesseldorf 1908 > > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 >1 Marshall,Frank James * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 11.5/15 >2 Salwe,Georg ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 10.0/15 >3 Spielmann,Rudolf 0 ½ * 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 9.5/15 >4 John,Walter ½ 0 1 * 0 ½ ½ 0 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 9.0/15 >5 Mieses,Jacques ½ ½ ½ 1 * 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 ½ ½ 0 8.5/15 >6 Brody,Miklos 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 * 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 0 8.0/15 >7 Suechting,Hugo ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 7.5/15 52.00 >8 Johner,Paul 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 0 7.5/15 51.25 >9 Treybal,Karel ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 7.0/15 >10 Jakob,A 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 6.5/15 49.25 >11 Wolf,Heinrich ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 * 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 6.5/15 49.00 >12 Von Bardeleben,Curt 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 * 1 ½ ½ 1 6.5/15 41.75 >13 Przepiorka,Dawid 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1 1 6.0/15 >14 Von Gottschall,Hermann ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * 0 1 5.5/15 38.75 >15 Swiderski,Rudolf 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 * 1 5.5/15 36.75 >16 Fritz,Alexander 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 * 5.0/15 Did he ever win a major tournament or in some way distinguish himself in a way similar to what a GM would have to do today to get a GM norm? SCID has a rough calculation of his ELO at 2450, which would make him approximately an IM in his day.
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