Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'ọnwa Ọgọstụ ruo Septemba 1939, Engels gbaara Germany bọọlụ na
8th Chess Olympiad na Buenos Aires. O meriri nrite ọla edo abụọ, ma ndị otu ma ndị mmadụ n'otu n'otu (na bọọdụ nke atọ: +12 <unk>0 = 4). Mgbe Agha Worldwa nke Abụọ malitere, Engels tinyere ndị otu ndị ọzọ niile nke ndị otu German (Eliskases, Michel, Becker, Reinhardt) na ọtụtụ ndị ọzọ sonyere na Olympiad ahụ (Stahlberg, Najdorf, Frydman, Czerniak, Winz, Rauch, Kleinstein, Raud, Feigins, Luckis, Pelikan, Skalička, Sulik, Gromer, Seitz, de Ronde, Sonja Graf, Paulette Schwartzmann, wdg) kpebiri ịnọ na Argentina. O jikọtara maka 4th-5th na Mar del Plata 1941 chess tournament (Gideon Ståhlberg meriri). N'afọ 1941, ya na Hector Rossetto jikọrọ maka 3rd-4th, mgbe Eliskases na Marcos Luckis nọ na Montevideo. Na Julaị 1941, o jikọtara maka 3rd-4th na Águas de São Pedro (Eliskases na Guimard meriri).