Adolf Zinkl

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birthname = Adolf Julius Zinkl
country = AUT
datebirth = birth date|1871|6|10
placebirth = Neuhaus Bohemia
datedeath = death date and age|1944|6|3|1871|6|10
placedeath = Vienna Austria
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Adolf Julius Zinkl (10 June 1871, Neuhaus (now Jindřichův Hradec) – 3 June 1944, Vienna) was a Austrian chess master. [ [http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter31.html Chess Notes by Edward Winter ] ]

Born in Bohemia, he settled in Vienna where played in many tournaments in the 1890s. He took 4th in 1892/93, shared 2nd ("Quadrangular") in 1893, took 5th in 1893/94 (Jacques Schwarz won), drew a match with Carl Schlechter (5.5 : 5.5) and lost to Georg Marco (2.5 : 5.5), both in 1894, took 5th in 1895 (Marco won), took 8th in 1895/96 (Schlechter and Max Weiss won), tied for 4-5th in 1896 and took 6th in 1897/98, both won by Marco. He won in 1899, and tied for 5-7th in 1899/1900 (Kolisch memorial, Géza Maróczy won). [ [http://www.chessmetrics.com Welcome to the Chessmetrics site ] ]

Zinkl also took 14th at Leipzig 1894 (the 9th DSB Congress, Siegbert Tarrasch won), and tied for 17-18th at Berlin 1897 (Rudolf Charousek won). [http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's "Chess Tournament Crosstables", An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01]

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