# Walter Michel

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{{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](/source/Swiss_people) [chess master](/source/chess_master).

He took 4th at Berne 1925 (''Quadrangular'', [Alexander Alekhine](/source/Alexander_Alekhine) won), won the [Swiss Championship](/source/Swiss_Chess_Championship) at Geneva 1926,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/pagine/svizzera.htm |title=svizzera<!-- Bot generated title --> |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](/source/Rudolf_Spielmann) won), and took 4th at Le Pont (''Quadrangular'', [Paul Johner](/source/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](/source/Chess_Olympiads):
* In 1927 at reserve board in the [1st Chess Olympiad](/source/1st_Chess_Olympiad) in London (+2 –1 =1);
* In 1928 at reserve board in the [2nd Chess Olympiad](/source/2nd_Chess_Olympiad) in The Hague (+6 –3 =2);
* In 1931 at reserve board in the [4th Chess Olympiad](/source/4th_Chess_Olympiad) in Prague (+5 –3 =7);
* In 1935 at third board in the [6th Chess Olympiad](/source/6th_Chess_Olympiad) in Warsaw (+2 –9 =4).<ref>[http://www.olimpbase.org OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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