{{Short description|Baltic German chess player}} {{Distinguish|Carl Friedrich Schmidt (disambiguation){{!}}Carl Friedrich Schmidt}}
'''Carl Friedrich Schmid''' (22 April 1840 – 31 March 1897) was a Baltic German chess player.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newinchess.com/Schmid__Carl_Friedrich-ip-11225.html |title=Carl Friedrich Schmid - Chessgames - New in Chess |access-date=2009-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116160004/https://www.newinchess.com/Schmid__Carl_Friedrich-ip-11225.html |archive-date=2017-01-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Born in Mitau, Russian Empire (today Jelgava, Latvia), he tied for 15-16th at Wiesbaden 1880 (Joseph Henry Blackburne, Berthold Englisch, and Adolf Schwarz won),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-12-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |archivedate=2007-07-04 }} Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01</ref> and took 16th in the Berlin 1881 chess tournament (the 2nd DSB Congress, Blackburne won).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1851-99/1881berlino.htm |title=Berlin |access-date=2009-02-13 |archive-date=2012-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011074932/http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1851-99/1881berlino.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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