Joseph Platz (11 April 1905, Cologne, Germany – 30 December 1981, Manchester, Connecticut, USA) was a German-American chess master.
[1] Platz emigrated to the United States because of Nazi policy in Germany in the 1930s.
Between 1954 and 1972, he won the Western Massachusetts & Connecticut Valley Open Championship 14 times.
[3] Platz is buried in Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, RI.
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