Max Walter was a Slovak chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

Born in Pressburg (Pozsony, Bratislava

Bratislava

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...

), then Austria–Hungary, he began his chess career in Czechoslovakia, after World War I

World War I

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Max Walter won Czechoslovak Chess Championship

Czechoslovak Chess Championship

The Czechoslovak National Chess Championship was the chess competition, which has determined the best Czechoslovak chess player.- History :First Czechoslovak championships were held in Prague in year 1919...

 at Pardubice 1923. In other tournaments, he took 2nd, behind Endre Steiner

Endre Steiner

Endre Steiner was a Hungarian chess player.Endre Steiner played for Hungary in five official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads.* In 1927, he played at first reserve board at 1st Chess Olympiad in London ....

, at Piešťany (Pistyan) 1922,
took 14th at Ostrava (Mährisch-Ostrau) 1923 (Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years...

 won),
tied for 6-7th at Györ 1924 (Hungarian Championship

Hungarian Chess Championship

The inaugural Hungarian Chess Championship was held in the city of Győr in 1906. Initially, there was no governing body responsible for its organisation, until the formation of the Hungarian Chess Federation. The HCF first appeared in 1911, but failed to establish itself properly until 1923...

, Géza Nagy

Géza Nagy

Géza Nagy was a Hungarian chess master.He was Hungarian Champion in 1924. He took 6th at Budapest 1926 ....

 won),
tied for 6-7th at Bratislava 1925 (Richard Réti

Richard Réti

Réti composed one of the most famous chess studies, shown in this diagram. It was published in Ostrauer Morgenzeitung 4 December 1921. It seems impossible for the white king to catch the advanced black pawn, while the white pawn can be easily stopped by the black king...

 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

Hermanis Matisons

Hermanis Matisons , , was a Latvian chess player and one of world's most highly regarded chess masters in the early 1930s. He was also a leading endgame composer...

 and Savielly Tartakower

Savielly Tartakower

Ksawery Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist of the 1920s and 30s...

 won),
tied for 7-9th at Trenčianske Teplice (Trentschin-Teplitz) 1926 (Boris Kostić and Karl Gilg

Karl Gilg

Karl Gilg was a German chess International Master from Czechoslovakia.Gilg played for Czechoslovakia in several Chess Olympiads....

 won),
shared 1st, but took 2nd place at České Budějovice 1927 (CSR-ch, Karel Opočenský

Karel Opocenský

Karel Opočenský was a Czech chess master.-Biography:He was four-time Czech Champion . In 1919, he took 2nd, behind František Schubert, in Prague . In 1925, he tied for 3rd-4th in Paris . In 1927, he won in Česke Budějovice...

 won),
took 4th at Znojmo 1927 (Opočensky won),
tied for 7-8th at Trenčianske Teplice 1928 (Kostić 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

Leo Zobel

Leo Zobel was a Slovak chess master.He won the 7th Czechoslovak Chess Championship at Prague 1931. He also took 12th at Trenčianske Teplice 1928 , tied for 9-10th at Brno 1929 , and tied for 10-11th at Stubňanské Teplice 1930 .-External links:...

 won),
tied for 10-11th at Sliač (Bad Sliac) 1932 (Salo Flohr

Salo Flohr

Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...

 and Milan Vidmar

Milan Vidmar

Milan Vidmar was a Slovene electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, philosopher, and writer. He was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.- Biography :...

won),
and took 8th at Teplice (Teplitz-Schönau) 1937 (Gilg won).

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