Kammala wannan jumla: A watan Agusta zuwa Satumba na 1939, Engels ya taka leda a Jamus a gasar zakarun Turai
Gasar Olympics ta Chess ta 8 a Buenos Aires. Ya lashe lambobin zinare biyu, duka ƙungiya da mutum (a tebur na uku: +12 <unk>0 = 4). Lokacin da Yaƙin Duniya na II ya ɓarke, Engels tare da duk sauran membobin ƙungiyar Jamus (Eliskases, Michel, Becker, Reinhardt) da sauran mahalarta wannan gasar Olympics (Stahlberg, Najdorf, Frydman, Czerniak, Winz, Rauch, Kleinstein, Raud, Feigins, Luckis, Pelikan, Skalička, Sulik, Gromer, Seitz, de Ronde, Sonja Graf, Paulette Schwartzmann, da sauransu) sun yanke shawarar zama na dindindin a Argentina. Ya yi daidai da na 4-5 a gasar Mar del Plata ta 1941 (Gideon Ståhlberg ya ci nasara). A 1941, ya yi daidai da 3rd-4th tare da Hector Rossetto, bayan Eliskases da Marcos Luckis a Montevideo. A watan Yulin 1941, ya yi daidai da na 3-4 a Águas de São Pedro (Eliskases da Guimard sun yi nasara).