Woog, Fritz




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1920  340  2212 (58) 12
1921  462  2180 (51) 7
1922  503  2163 (45) 12
1923  522  2171 (42) 15
1924  474  2194 (39) 23
1925  546  2178 (40) 13
1926  552  2180 (42) 12
1927  658  2154 (45) 7
1928  654  2158 (47) 11
1929  700  2149 (52) 11
1930  752  2145 (61) 0
1931  803  2142 (67) 0
1932  815  2138 (69) 0
1933  849  2135 (69) 0
1934  866  2131 (65) 0
1935  897  2128 (59) 11
1936  825  2129 (64) 0
1937  756  2131 (66) 0
1938  727  2132 (64) 0
1939  594  2134 (59) 5
1940  421  2138 (57) 13
1941  289  2133 (63) 7

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Woog, Fritz  
   Also known as: Walther
Born:
Died:
 
Notes:
Gaige has 'H. Walther' at Hamburg 1921. Di Felice has 'Walter, Hermann'. But the Deutsche Schachzeitung of 1921 makes it clear that 'Walther' was a pseudonym for Fritz Woog. In the index (p.290) is listed 'Walther (Leipzig) 262 - F. Worg', where 'Worg' is clearly a typographical error for Woog. On p.291 of the index appears 'Woog, F.'. On p.160, he is listed as 'Woog (Leipzig)' at the Hamburg Congress, but on p.262 as 'Walther-Leipzig'. This identification of 'Walther' as Fritz Woog comes from Peter Anderberg, via Alan McGowan, who sent me the references to the Deutsche Schachzeitung. Anderberg points also to the Arbeiter Schachzeitung of Sep. 1921 (pp.125-126), where Woog states that he played in Hamburg under a pseudonym because he was a member of the Leipzig Worker's Chess Club, and that 'Members of the German Workers' Chess Association were prohibited from simultaneously being members of a 'civil' club and taking part in its games' (Anderberg's paraphrasing). Clearly he was found out. McGowan also sends some clippings from other sources, found by Ulrich Tamm. The Hamburger Fremdenblatt has only 'Walther' or 'Walther-Leipzig'. Badisches Presse of 1921 (I don't have the date) has 'Fr. Walther-Leipzig'.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1901-1920, page 264
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1921-1930, page 342
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1931-1935, page 329
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1936-1940, page 379
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1941-1946, page 365
   Thulin, Name index to CTC, page 301
Periodicals
   [ArSZ], vol. 10, no. 9, Sep. 1921, page 125
   [BP], 1921
   [DSZ], vol. 76, 1921, page 160, 262, 290, 291
   [HFB], 20 Aug. 1921
   [HFB], 24 Aug. 1921
   [HFB], 27 Aug. 1921

Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

Woog, F. - Herrmann, J. 1940         (f)     3.5   -   2.5

Tournament data

Berlin 1920 (10)     20th German Chess Federation Congress - Hauptturnier 4D     4.5  /  5
Berlin 1920 (11)     20th German Chess Federation Congress - Hauptturnier 4 Final     5  /  7
Hamburg 1921 (6)     21st German Chess Federation Congress - Hauptturnier B4     3.5  /  7
Bad Oeynhausen 1922 (3)     22nd German Chess Federation Congress - Hauptturnier A     2.5  /  7
Bad Oeynhausen 1922 (8)     22nd German Chess Federation Congress - Consolation Tournament     3  /  5
Leipzig 1923     Middle German Championship     4.5  /  9
Frankfurt 1923 (2)     23rd German Chess Federation Congress - Hauptturnier A     4  /  7
Leipzig 1924 (1)     Leipzig Tournament     2.5  /  5
Linz 1924 (2)     Linz Tournament     5.5  /  9
Leipzig 1924 (2)     Augustea Summer Tournament     5  /  9
Breslau 1925 (3)     24th German Chess Federation Congress - Hauptturnier B Final     1.5  /  7
Breslau 1925 (4)     24th German Chess Federation Congress - Hauptturnier B, Group 1     5.5  /  7
Vienna 1926 (4)     Congress of the German Chess Union in Vienna - Hauptturnier A     6.5  /  12
Bad Schandau 1927     15th Saxonian Chess Federation Tournament     2  /  7
Leipzig 1928 (1)     Leipzig Championship     6.5  /  11
Leipzig 1929     Leipzig Championship     6.5  /  11
Swinemunde 1935     Swinemunde East German Zonal Tournament     4  /  11
Stuttgart 1939 (3)     Berliner Schachgesellschaft - Augustea Schachklub-Leipzig Match    
  Woog, F. - Rellstab, L.A.F.H.     0 - 1    
Stuttgart 1939 (5)     Hamburger Schachklub - Augustea Schachklub-Leipzig Match    
  Woog, F. - Reinhardt, H.     0 - 1    
Stuttgart 1939 (10)     Münchener Schachklub - Augustea Schachklub-Leipzig Match    
  Woog, F. - Kraus (1)     0.5 - 0.5    
Stuttgart 1939 (13)     Augustea Schachklub-Leipzig - Mannheimer Schachklub Match    
  Woog, F. - Heinrich, G.     0 - 1    
Stuttgart 1939 (16)     Deutsches Schachverein-Vienna - Augustea Schachklub-Leipzig Match    
  Woog, F. - Becker, A.     1 - 0    
Leipzig 1940     25th Saxonian Federation Tournament     3  /  7
Annaberg 1941     Sachsen Federation Tournament     3.5  /  7


Player information updated: 13 Feb. 2024