Louis Uedemann
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Louis Uedemann (10 January 1854 – 22 November 1912) was an American chess master.
He twice won U.S. Open Chess Championship at Excelsior 1900 (the 1st Western Chess Association Championship) and Excelsior 1902 (the 3rd WCA-ch).[1]
He also won at Chicago 1890,[2] took 7th at St. Louis 1890 (Jackson Showalter won), tied for 4-5th at Lexington 1891 (Showalter and William Pollock won), took 3rd at Chicago 1903 (the 4th WCA-ch, Max Judd won), took 2nd, behind Stasch Mlotkowski, at St. Louis 1904 (the 5th WCA-ch), took 3rd at St. Louis 1904 (the 7th American Chess Congress, Frank James Marshall won),[3] tied for 3rd-5th at Excelsior 1905 (the 6th WCA-ch, Schrader won), took 5th at Chicago 1906 (the 7th WCA-ch, Wolbrecht won), took 3rd at Excelsior 1907 (the 8th WCA-ch, Michelsen won), took 4th at Excelsior 1908 (the 9th WCA-ch, Elliot won), took 3rd at Excelsior 1909 (the 10th WCA-ch, Oscar Chajes won), and took 3rd at Chicago 1910 (the 11th WCA-ch, Wolbrecht won).[4]
He played for Chicago Chess Club in cable matches against Twin Cities CC (1904), Franklin CC of Pennsylvania (1904 and 1905), Brooklyn CC (1905), and Manhattan CC (1905).[5]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/history.txt
- ^ Edo Ratings, Uedemann, L
- ^ The Frank James Marshall Electronic Archive and Museum: Tournament and Match Record
- ^ 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
- ^ Welcome to the Chessmetrics site
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