He also won the North Central Open at Wisconsin in 1957, where his young competitor Bobby Fischer took 6th place.
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In 1929, Popel won a championship of Lviv, followed by E. Kaufman, Henryk Friedman, Oskar Piotrowski, etc.
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Stepan Popel was the nephew of an early master, Ignatz von Popiel (1863–1941), and took a liking to chess at an early age – he played in his first tournament at age 12.
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