Jules Ehrat (1 February 1905 – 1997) was a Swiss

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player born in Lohn, Schaffhausen. He was the 1942 Swiss Chess Champion jointly with

Martin Christoffel Dr. Martin Christoffel (21 September 1922 – 3 April 2001) was a Swiss chess champion born in Basel. In 1944 he won the Coupe Suisse knockout tournament. Christoffel won the Swiss Chess Championship in 1943, 1945, 1948, and 1952, and was joint ...

. The Jules Ehrat Memorial chess tournament held in Zürich 13–22 August 1999 pitted two five-player teams against each other. The German team, led by

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, defeated the Swiss team, led by

Viktor Korchnoi Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi ( rus, Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, p=vʲiktər lʲvovʲɪtɕ kɐrtɕˈnoj; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (before 1976) and Swiss (after 1980) chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He ...

, by 26½ to 23½.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ehrat, Jules 1905 births 1997 deaths Swiss chess players People from Schaffhausen Sportspeople from the canton of Schaffhausen 20th-century chess players