Adolf Zinkl

Adolf Julius Zinkl (10 June 1871, Neuhaus [now Jindřichův Hradec] – 3 June 1944, Vienna) was an Austrian chess master.[1]

Adolf Zinkl
Full nameAdolf Julius Zinkl
CountryAustria
Born(1871-06-10)10 June 1871
Neuhaus Bohemia
Died3 June 1944(1944-06-03) (aged 72)
Vienna Austria

Tournament results

Born in Bohemia, he settled in Vienna, where he played in many tournaments in the 1890s. He took 4th in 1892/93, shared 2nd (Quadrangular) in 1893, took 5th in 1893/94 (Jacques Schwarz won), drew a match with Carl Schlechter (5½ : 5½) and lost to Georg Marco (2½ : 5½), both in 1894, took 5th in 1895 (Marco won), took 8th in 1895/96 (Schlechter and Max Weiss won), tied for 4–5th in 1896 and took 6th in 1897/98, both won by Marco. He won in 1899, and tied for 5–7th in 1899/1900 (Kolisch memorial, Géza Maróczy won).[2]

Zinkl also took 14th at Leipzig 1894 (the 9th DSB Congress, Siegbert Tarrasch won), and tied for 17–18th at Berlin 1897 (Rudolf Charousek won).[3]

References
  1. Chess Notes by Edward Winter
  2. Welcome to the Chessmetrics site Archived April 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2015-09-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01


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