Walter Michel

{{Short description|Swiss chess player}} {{about||the member of the Mississippi State Senate |J. Walter Michel}} '''Walter Michel''' (November 26, 1888 – September 30, 1969) was a Swiss chess master.

He took 4th at Berne 1925 (''Quadrangular'', Alexander Alekhine won), won the Swiss Championship at Geneva 1926,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/pagine/svizzera.htm |title=svizzera |access-date=2008-03-18 |archive-date=2008-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080127093139/http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/pagine/svizzera.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> took 17th at Semmering 1926 (Rudolf Spielmann won), and took 4th at Le Pont (''Quadrangular'', Paul Johner won).<ref>http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |date=2007-07-04 }} Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's ''Chess Tournament Crosstables'', An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01</ref>

Michel played for Switzerland in Chess Olympiads: * In 1927 at reserve board in the 1st Chess Olympiad in London (+2 –1 =1); * In 1928 at reserve board in the 2nd Chess Olympiad in The Hague (+6 –3 =2); * In 1931 at reserve board in the 4th Chess Olympiad in Prague (+5 –3 =7); * In 1935 at third board in the 6th Chess Olympiad in Warsaw (+2 –9 =4).<ref>[http://www.olimpbase.org OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess]</ref>

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