Max Walter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Walter

chess player

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1899

Place of Birth: Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1945

Profession: chess player

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Max Walter (born 1899 – died 1940) was a Slovak chess master. Born in Pressburg (Pozsony, Bratislava), then Austria–Hungary, he began his chess career in Czechoslovakia, after World War I.
Max Walter won Czechoslovak Chess Championship at Pardubice 1923.
In other tournaments, he took 2nd, behind Endre Steiner, at Pieštany (Pistyan) 1922, took 14th at Ostrava (Mährisch-Ostrau) 1923 (Emanuel Lasker won), tied for 6-7th at Györ 1924 (Hungarian Championship, Géza Nagy won), tied for 6-7th at Bratislava 1925 (Richard Réti won), and shared 2nd, behind Réti, at Kolin 1925 (Quadrangular).He won, ahead of Balázs Sárközy, at Budapest 1926, tied for 10-11th at Bardejov (Bartfeld) 1926 (Hermanis Matisons and Savielly Tartakower won), tied for 7-9th at Trencianske Teplice (Trentschin-Teplitz) 1926 (Boris Kostic and Karl Gilg won), shared 1st, but took 2nd place at Ceské Budejovice 1927 (CSR-ch, Karel Opocenský won), took 4th at Znojmo 1927 (Opocensky won), tied for 7-8th at Trencianske Teplice 1928 (Kostic won), took 10th at Brno 1928 (Fritz Sämisch and Réti won), tied for 4-5th at Liptovský Svätý Ján 1930, took 3rd at Prague 1931 (CSR-ch, Leo Zobel won), tied for 10-11th at Sliac (Bad Sliac) 1932 (Salo Flohr and Milan Vidmar won), and took 8th at Teplice (Teplitz-Schönau) 1937 (Gilg won).