Fritz Gygli (12 November 1896 in Villachern – 27 April 1980 in
Zürich) was a
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chess master
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He tied for 3rd-4th at
St. Gallen 1920, tied for 4-8th at
Neuchâtel
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1922, shared 2nd at
Interlaken 1924, took 2nd at Zurich 1925, tied for 3rd-4th at
Geneva 1926, tied for 5-6th at
Biel 1927, tied for 4-5th at
Basel 1928, took 3rd at
Schaffhausen, and took 5th at
Lausanne 1930.
In the 1930s, he took 4th at Berne 1932 (''Quadrangular''), took 15th at Berne 1932 (an event won by
Alexander Alekhine), tied for 3rd-4th at Berne 1933 (''Quadrangular''), took 11th at
Zürich 1934 (Alekhine won), and took 6th at
Montreux 1939.
Gygli represented Switzerland in
Chess Olympiads
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at
The Hague 1928,
Warsaw 1935, and in
3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad, Munich 1936. He also played in friendly matches for Switzerland against France (1946),
Yugoslavia (1949), and
West Germany (1952).
He won the
Swiss Championship in 1941.
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1896 births
1980 deaths
Swiss chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
20th-century chess players
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