Woog, Fritz




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1920  329  2219 (58) 12
1921  450  2186 (51) 7
1922  500  2169 (45) 12
1923  511  2177 (42) 15
1924  472  2199 (39) 23
1925  544  2183 (40) 13
1926  551  2184 (42) 12
1927  657  2159 (45) 7
1928  653  2162 (47) 11
1929  701  2153 (52) 11
1930  752  2149 (61) 0
1931  801  2145 (67) 0
1932  814  2142 (69) 0
1933  845  2138 (69) 0
1934  852  2135 (65) 0
1935  895  2131 (59) 11
1936  822  2132 (64) 0
1937  757  2134 (66) 0
1938  727  2135 (64) 0
1939  593  2137 (59) 5
1940  418  2141 (57) 13
1941  289  2136 (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