Carl August Walbrodt

Carl August Walbrodt (28 November 1871, Amsterdam – 3 October 1902, Berlin) was a Dutch–German chess master.

In 1890/91, he took 2nd= (3rd after a play-off) in Berlin (Richard Teichmann won). In 1890 he took 5th in Berlin (Horatio Caro won). In 1892 he tied for 4-5th in Dresden (Siegbert Tarrasch won). In 1893, he tied for 1st-2nd with Curt von Bardeleben in Kiel. In 1894, he tied for 4-5th in Leipzig (Tarrasch won). He took 11th at Hastings 1895.

In 1896, he took 2nd, behind von Bardeleben, and ahead of Jacques Mieses, in Berlin (Triangular), tied for 7-8th in Nuremberg (Emanuel Lasker won), and tied for 6-7th in Budapest (Rudolf Charousek and Mikhail Chigorin won). In 1897, he took 2nd, behind Charousek, in Berlin, and took 5th in Berlin (Bardeleben won). In 1898, he took 15th in Vienna (Pillsbury and Tarrasch won). [web.telia.com/~u40117134/CTCIndex.pdf]

Walbrodt played 14 or 15 matches from 1890 to 1898. He won against Schallopp, von Bardeleben, Hermann Keidanski,Eugene Delmar, Ettlinger, Vasquez, W.Cohn, Kuerschner, Haeusler, drew with von Scheve, Mieses, and lost to Tarrasch and Janowski. The result of his first match, against Hollaender (1890), is unknown. [cite book | author=Litmanowicz, Władysław & Giżycki, Jerzy| title=Szachy od A do Z | publisher=Wydawnictwo "Sport i Turystyka" Warszawa | year=1986, 1987 | id=ISBN 83-217-2481-7 (1. A-M), ISBN 83-217-2745-x (2. N-Z)]

He died of tuberculosis at the age of 30.

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