Otto Zimmermann was a Swiss 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.

He won Swiss Chess Championship

Swiss Chess Championship

The Swiss Chess Championship is held annually during two weeks of July. It is organised by the Swiss Chess Federation , which has been a member of the overall governing body, Swiss Olympic, since 2000...

 at Interlaken 1924, and represented Switzerland in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad

1st unofficial Chess Olympiad

The first Team Chess Tournament had been held by coinciding the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12th - 20 July 1924, at Hotel Majestic. The core of the organizing committee were the Frenchmen Pierre Vincent and Alexander Alekhine. Fifty-four players representing 18 countries arrived to Paris...

 at Paris 1924, where shared 8th in the Consolation Cup. He also participated in official Chess Olympiads at London 1927, Prague 1931, and Amsterdam 1954.

Zimmermann had his best results in the 1920s, when he tied for 2nd-3rd at Neuchâtel 1922, took 3rd at Bern 1923, shared 1st at Margate 1923 (B tournament), tied for 10-11th at Zurich 1925, took 2nd at Geneva 1926, and took 6th at Basel 1928.

After World War II, he played in several friendly matches: Switzerland vs. France (1946), vs. Argentina (1950), vs. Belgium (1950), vs. West Germany (1952).

He shared 3rd at Zurich Seniors 1962.

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