Karl Helling

{{short description|German chess player (1904–1937)}}

Karl Helling (10 August 1904, Luckenwalde, Brandenburg – 15 August 1937, Berlin) was a German chess master.

In 1928, he shared 1st with Kurt Richter in the Berlin City Chess Championship, and won a play-off match for the title against him (2 : 0).{{Cite web |url=http://www.berlinerschachverband.de/archiv/events/bsv/bem/1928/index.html |title=Berliner Schachverband :: Berliner Meisterschaft 1928 |access-date=2008-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905175642/http://www.berlinerschachverband.de/archiv/events/bsv/bem/1928/index.html |archive-date=2009-09-05 |url-status=dead }}

He also won the Berlin-ch in 1932.{{Cite web |url=http://www.berlinerschachverband.de/archiv/events/bsv/bem/1932/index.html |title=Berliner Schachverband :: Berliner Meisterschaft 1932 |access-date=2008-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905043707/http://www.berlinerschachverband.de/archiv/events/bsv/bem/1932/index.html |archive-date=2009-09-05 |url-status=dead }}

Helling represented Germany in the 4th Chess Olympiad at Prague 1931.[http://www.olimpbase.org/1931/1931id01.html OlimpBase :: 4th Chess Olympiad, Prague 1931, individual results]

In other tournaments, he tied for 7-10th at Chemnitz 1925, tied for 5-6th in the Berlin-ch 1927 (Berthold Koch won), took 5th at Berlin (BSG) 1928 (Aron Nimzowitsch won); tied for 2nd-3rd, behind Richter, at Wiesbaden 1928; tied for 5-6th at Leipzig 1928 (Max Blümich won), took 9th at Berlin (Kaffee König) 1928 (Efim Bogoljubow won), tied for 4-7th at Duisburg 1929 (DSB Congress, Carl Ahues won). Helling won, ahead of Salo Flohr, at Zwickau 1930; won ahead of Ehrhardt Post and Richter, at Berlin 1930; and took 2nd, behind Isaac Kashdan, at Berlin 1930 (Quadrangular).{{cite web|url=http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-07-04 |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

In 1931, he lost a short match to Gösta Stoltz (0.5 : 1.5) in Berlin, tied for 2nd-4th, behind Herman Steiner, in Berlin, tied for 4-6th at Swinemünde (27th DSB Congress, Bogoljubow and Ludwig Roedl won),[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables2.htm Nice 1931] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807014625/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables2.htm |date=2007-08-07 }} and took 4th in Berlin (BSG, Ludwig Rellstab won). Then he took 5th at Berlin 1932 (Mokadoro), took 3rd in the Berlin-ch 1933, took 10th at Bad Aachen 1933 (Bogoljubov won), and tied for 5-9th at Bad Pyrmont 1933 (1st German Chess Championship, Bogoljubow won).[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables4.htm NED-ch08 The Hague/Leiden 1933] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807085005/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables4.htm |date=2007-08-07 }} He tied for 8-9th at Dresden 1936 (Alexander Alekhine won),[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables7.htm All-Union YM 1936] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091208191715/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables7.htm |date=2009-12-08 }} took 4th in the Berlin-ch 1937 (Rellstab won), and tied for 6-7th at Berlin 1937 (BSG, Fritz Sämisch won).[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables8.htm ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091210062551/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables8.htm |date=2009-12-10 }} at www.rogerpaige.me.uk