Tournament

All-German Championship 1953 (Leipzig)

1953 · Leipzig
Wolfgang Unzicker won the title playoff 3½–½ after tying Ludwig Schmitt on 9/13; Berthold Koch finished third with 8½.
Incomplete record·58 of 199 games archived

Incomplete record. This archive holds 58 of the 199 games played; 141 are missing. The 13-round Swiss produced 195 actual games, with Schlieder and Stelzner sharing one active slot (8 + 5 rounds); its four played title-playoff games bring the collection to 199. MasterDB retains 54 main games and all four playoff games. The other 141 main-event pairings are positively identified from the complete published matrix.

Result

Wolfgang Unzicker won the title playoff 3½–½ after tying Ludwig Schmitt on 9/13; Berthold Koch finished third with 8½.