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Isaak Appel
I Appel 
Izaak Appel (right)  

Number of games in database: 43
Years covered: 1926 to 1940
Overall record: +11 -17 =15 (43.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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ISAAK APPEL
(born 1905, died 1941, 36 years old) Poland

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Izaak Appel was a Polish master. In 1934, he won the Lodz championship. He participated in several Polish championships. In 1936, he finished shared 1st at the Lodz Christmas tournament ahead of players like Teodor Regedzinski and Miguel Najdorf.

Wikipedia article: Izaak Appel


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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. I Appel vs J Kleczynski Jr  0-1471926Polish ChampionshipA48 King's Indian
2. P Frydman vs I Appel  1-0201926POL-ch01B01 Scandinavian
3. Samuel Fuchs vs I Appel  1-0601930SopotB58 Sicilian
4. B Koch vs I Appel  ½-½321930ZoppotA46 Queen's Pawn Game
5. P Frydman vs I Appel  ½-½471932Appel - Frydman mA52 Budapest Gambit
6. P Frydman vs I Appel  ½-½371932Appel - Frydman mA52 Budapest Gambit
7. I Appel vs D M MacIsaac  1-0371933Folkestone OlympiadD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
8. I Appel vs W Winter 0-1351933Folkestone OlympiadD00 Queen's Pawn Game
9. I Appel vs J Nielsen  1-0371933Folkestone OlympiadD67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line
10. I Appel vs Najdorf  0-1291935POL-ch03A16 English
11. A Szpiro vs I Appel  1-0381935POL-ch03B72 Sicilian, Dragon
12. I Appel vs K Opocensky  ½-½751935LodzA45 Queen's Pawn Game
13. W Winter vs I Appel  ½-½301935LodzD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
14. V Mikenas vs I Appel  ½-½121935LodzE33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
15. I Appel vs L Steiner  0-1201935LodzE19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3
16. Fine vs I Appel ½-½651935LodzE80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation
17. A Wojciechowski vs I Appel  0-1271937Polish ChampionshipB18 Caro-Kann, Classical
18. I Appel vs M Lowcki  0-1371937Polish ChampionshipA33 English, Symmetrical
19. I Appel vs A Frydman  1-0321937Polish ChampionshipA09 Reti Opening
20. J Foltys vs I Appel  ½-½161937Polish ChampionshipA47 Queen's Indian
21. I Appel vs L Kremer  0-1261937Polish ChampionshipD32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
22. I Appel vs A Szpiro  1-0381937Polish ChampionshipD04 Queen's Pawn Game
23. I Appel vs K Salbu  1-0331937Stockholm OlympiadD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
24. I Appel vs C Guimard  1-0481937Stockholm OlympiadA16 English
25. I A Horowitz vs I Appel  1-0441937Stockholm OlympiadB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
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Aug-16-05  cuendillar: <The popular tradition has it that Newton was sitting under an Appel tree when an apple fell on his head, and that this made him understand that earthly and celestial gravitation are the same. A contemporary writer, William Stukeley, recorded in his Memoirs of Sir Isaak Newton's Life a conversation with Newton in Kensington on 15 April 1726, in which Newton recalled "when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. It was occasioned by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative mood. Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, thought he to himself. Why should it not go sideways or upwards, but constantly to the earth's centre." In similar terms, Voltaire wrote, "Sir Isaac Newton walking in his gardens, had the first thought of his system of gravitation, upon seeing an apple falling from a tree." These accounts are exaggerations of Newton's own tale about sitting by a window in his home and watching an apple fall from a tree. It is now generally considered probable that even this story was invented by Newton in later life, to illustrate how he drew inspiration from everyday events.>
Aug-16-05
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Aug-24-08  myschkin: . . .

aka <Izaak Appel>
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Aug-29-08
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  GrahamClayton: There was a tournament held in Warsaw in early 1939 to determine who would be chosen for the Polish team that was going to compete in the 1939 Olympiad in Buenos Aires. Towards the end of the tournament, 2 players were competing for the last vacant place - Teodor Regedzinski and Appel, who was Jewish.

Appel had to beat Miguel Najdorf in the final round to make the Olympiad team, but he lost the game. As a result he was a victim of the Nazi ghetto during World War 2, and perished. If he had made the Olympiad team, he would have been able to stay in Argentina after the Olympiad, and would have survived the war.

Sep-03-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: Source: "Batsford Book of Chess Records", Yakov Damsky, Batsford, 2005
Aug-04-12  Karpova: Final Standings of the Lodz Christmas tournament 1936:

1-3. Appel 5.0
1-3. P. Frydman 5.0
1-3. Gerstenfeld 5.0
4. Regedzinski 4.0
5-6. A. Frydman 3.5
5-6. Najdorf 3.5
7. Kolski 2.0
8. Spiro 0.0

Source: Page 38 of the 1937 '(Neue) Wiener Schachzeitung'

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