Willi Schlage


Willi Schlage was a German chess master and trainer.

Matches and tournaments

In 1910, he won in Hamburg. He played in friendly matches: Berlin–Prague, Berlin–Holland, Germany–Netherlands, and Germany–Sweden. Schlage twice won the Berlin City Chess Championship in 1921 and 1926.
He took third place at Hamburg 1921, tied for 3rd–5th at Bad Oeynhausen 1922, tied for 11–13th at Berlin 1928, tied for 5–7th at Berlin 1930, tied for 7–8th in the Berlin-ch 1932, tied for 8–9th at Swinemünde 1932, tied for 6–7th in the Berlin-ch 1933, shared 11th at Bad Aachen 1935, tied for 3rd–4th at Berlin 1937, and tied for 4–7th at Krefeld 1938.

Trainer

In 1935, he became Reichstrainer des Großdeutschen Schachbundes. Schlage, with Alexander Alekhine and Efim Bogoljubow, trained the German national team for 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936. In August 1939, he trained the best young German players, Wolfgang Unzicker, Edith Keller, Karl Krbavic, Rudolf Kunath in Fürstenwalde.

Legacy

In the film , the HAL 9000 supercomputer is shown soundly defeating the astronaut Frank Poole in a game of chess. The board position and final moves shown replicate a tournament game Schlage won in 1910.