Wolfgang Hasenfuss
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Wolfgang Hasenfuss (Hazenfuss) (born 1900, date of death unknown) was a Latvian chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master of Baltic German
Baltic German
The Baltic Germans were mostly ethnically German inhabitants of the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, which today form the countries of Estonia and Latvia. The Baltic German population never made up more than 10% of the total. They formed the social, commercial, political and cultural élite in...

 ethnicity.

He played for Latvia in Chess Olympiads and 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad
3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad
The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation as a counterpart of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events....

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  • In 1931, at first reserve board in 4th Chess Olympiad
    4th Chess Olympiad
    The 4th Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 11 and July 26, 1931, in Prague, Czechoslovakia...

     in Prague (+7 -3 =1);
  • In 1933, at fourth board in 5th Chess Olympiad
    5th Chess Olympiad
    The 5th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 12 and July 23, 1933, in Folkestone, United Kingdom...

     in Folkestone (+5 -6 =3);
  • In 1935, at fourth board in 6th Chess Olympiad
    6th Chess Olympiad
    The 6th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between August 16 and August 31, 1935, in Warsaw, Poland...

     in Warsaw (+4 -4 =4);
  • In 1936, at fifth board in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad
    3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad
    The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation as a counterpart of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events....

     in Munich (+7 -7 =3).

Hasenfuss won individual bronze medal in 1931.

He took 6th at Riga 1932 (Vladimirs Petrovs
Vladimirs Petrovs
Vladimirs Petrovs or Vladimir Petrov was a Latvian chess master.He was born in Riga, Latvia. Though he learned the game of chess relatively late, at age thirteen, Petrovs made rapid progress. By 1926, at age 19, he won the Riga Championship and finish third in the national championship...

 won), took 4th at Riga 1934 (LAT-ch, Fricis Apšenieks
Fricis Apšenieks
Fricis Apšenieks was a Latvian chess master.-Biography:...

 and Petrovs won), tied for 17-18th at Kemeri 1937 (Samuel Reshevsky
Samuel Reshevsky
Samuel "Sammy" Herman Reshevsky was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess Grandmaster...

, Petrovs and Salo Flohr
Salo Flohr
Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...

won), and took 10th at Kemeri / Riga 1939 (Flohr won).

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