Berlin Championship 1934

Ahues and Sämisch share first
Late 1933 · Berlin, Germany
Carl Ahues and Friedrich Sämisch shared first with 8½ points from eleven possible. Berthold Koch followed on 7½.
Incomplete record·games missing

Incomplete record. This archive holds 16 games of this event; the others are missing, and the number played is not established. Sixteen scores are available, including one position fragment. Further played games are missing; the exact played-game total remains unverified.

Carl Ahues and Friedrich Sämisch shared first in the Berlin championship styled for 1934, with 8½ points from eleven possible. Berthold Koch followed on 7½.

A championship reported in the new year

The tournament was played in late 1933 and reported in early 1934. Contemporary Swedish and Hamburg reports agree on the joint winners’ 8½ points.

Sämisch was the only unbeaten player, finishing with six wins and five draws. Ludwig Rellstab followed Koch on 6½ points.

The surviving scores

Sixteen scores are preserved here, including the Grammatikoff–Babel ending, which begins from a recorded position at move 35.

All available games are decisive, leaving Sämisch’s five draws among the missing scores. The evidence inspected does not establish an exact count of games physically played.

Result

8½/11
Carl Ahues and Friedrich Sämisch shared first with 8½ points from eleven possible. Berthold Koch followed on 7½.

Sixteen scores are available, including one position fragment. Further played games are missing; the exact played-game total remains unverified.