Events in chess in 1914:
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns.
Efim Dmitriyevich Bogoljubow was a Russian-born German chess player who played two matches against Alexander Alekhine for the world championship. He was granted the title of grandmaster by FIDE in 1951.
Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein was a Russian-French chess player and businessman. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950.
Sergey von Freymann (1882–1946) was a Russian-Uzbekistani chess master.
Boris Markovich Verlinsky was a Soviet chess player, who was awarded the title International Master by FIDE, the world chess federation, in 1950. He was one of the top Soviet players in the 1920s, and was Soviet champion in 1929.
Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky was a Russian chess player and author. He won the Soviet Championship in 1923 and, jointly, 1927.
Alexander Flamberg was a Polish chess master.
Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich was a Russian and later Soviet chess player, among the best ones in his country for three decades, from 1910 to 1940. His best result was a shared first place in the 9th Soviet Championship of 1934-35. He was also a chess writer.
Fedor (Fyodor) Ivanovich Duz–Khotimirsky was a Russian and Soviet Ukrainian chess master. He was one of the organizers of the Kyiv Chess Club.
Alexey (Alex) Sergeyevich Selezniev was a chess master and chess composer.
Boris Evgenievich Maliutin (1883–1920) was a Russian chess master.
Samuil Osipovich Vainshtein (1894–1942) was a Russian chess master, organizer, publisher and editor.
Peter Petrovich Saburov (Sabouroff) was a Russian diplomat, chess master and organizer, and musical composer.
The 19th DSB Congress, comprising several tournaments, began on 20 July 1914 in Mannheim. Germany declared war on Russia and on France, Britain joining in the next day. The congress was stopped on 1 August 1914.
N. Kopelman (Koppelman) was a Russian chess player.
The St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament was one of the most famous chess tournaments of the early twentieth century. It included all the leading players of the time, and was won by World Champion Emanuel Lasker, who came from behind to narrowly defeat future World Champion José Raúl Capablanca.
Events in chess in 1918:
The Triberg chess tournament constitutes a series of chess tournaments, held in Triberg im Schwarzwald, Imperial Germany, during World War I.
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Events in chess in 1916:
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 1 September 2004