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Wolfgang Weil

Wolfgang Weil (November 23, 1912, Klosterneuburg - 1944/45, Croatia) was an Austrian chess master.

Dr. Weil played for Austria at eighths board (+10 -2 =5) in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936, and won individual gold medal.

He took 2nd, behind Paul Keres, at Vienna 1937 (Quadrangular), tied for 6-7th at Vienna 1937/38 (the 20th Trebitsch Memorial, Lajos Steiner won), took 9th at Bad Elster 1938 (Efim Bogoljubow won), tied for 15-16th at Bad Oeynhausen 1938 (the 5th German Championship, Erich Eliskases won), was a winner at Vienna (Schachklub Hietzing) 1939, took 3rd at Vienna 1939 (Eliskases won), and tied for 8-10th at Warsaw / Lublin / Kraków 1942 (the 3rd GG-ch, Alexander Alekhine won).

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