1915 in chess

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Chess events in brief

Marshall Chess Divan started by Frank Marshall. Forerunner to Marshall Chess Club.

Tournaments

Triberg chess tournament won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Ilya Rabinovich and Peter Romanovsky, 1914/15
New York (Metropolitan Chess League), won by Edward Lasker, January
Vienna (Quadrangular), won by Józef Dominik, March
25th London City championship (London, England), won by Sir George Thomas, March
New York won by José Raúl Capablanca followed by Frank Marshall, Oscar Chajes and Abraham Kupchik, Jacob Bernstein and Ed Lasker, 19 April – 7 May
16th U.S. Open Chess Championship (Excelsior, Minnesota), won by Jackson Showalter ahead of Norman T. Whitaker, finished 21 August
Utica won by Charles Jaffe
Triberg won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Ilya Rabinovich and Alexander Flamberg
Triberg won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Alexey Selezniev and Ilya Rabinovich
Triberg won by Efim Bogoljubow of Ilya Rabinovich and Alexey Selezniev
Moscow won by Nikolai Zubarev ahead of Peter Yurdansky
St. Petersburg won by Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky and Golubev
6th Danish Chess Championship (Horsens, Denmark), won by Johannes Giersing
Amsterdam won by G. J. van Gelder
Rotterdam won by G. J. van Gelder
Scheveningen won by Max Marchand
Hastings won by Reginald Pryce Michell
7th Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament (Vienna, Austria), won by Carl Schlechter followed by Richard Réti, Arthur Kaufmann, Georg Marco, František Schubert, and Ignatz von Popiel
Moscow won by Alexander Alekhine ahead of Vladimir Nenarokov and Peter Yurdansky, December
26th London championship (London, England), won by Theodor Germann and Edward Guthlac Sergeant, 1915/16
Triberg (Triangular), won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Ilya Rabinovich and Alexey Selezniev, 1915/16

Matches

17–20 May - Addey Dixon beat H. Thomas (+3 –1 =0) in Belfast.
c. 24 May - John O'Hanlon beat Addey Dixon (+3 –0 =0) in Portadown.
Gyula Breyer won against Jan F. Esser (+2 –1 =1) in Budapest.
Jacques Mieses defeated Siegbert Tarrasch (+1 –0 =1) in Berlin.
Edward Guthlac Sergeant beat Theodor Germann (play-off) (+2 –0 =0) in London, 1915/16.^[1]

Births

21 February - René Letelier in San Bernardo. Chilean ch. 1957, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1973, IM 1960.
3 March - Kazimierz Plater born in Vilna. Polish ch. 1949, 1956, 1957. IM 1950.
20 April - Maximilian Ujtelky born in Hungary/Slovakia. Slovak IM 1961.
20 May - Erik Jakob Larsson born in Landskrona, Sweden.
14 June - Nicolaas Cortlever, born in Amsterdam. Dutch IM 1950.
30 August - Hermann Albrecht, born in Marburg, Germany. IJComp 1957.
31 August - David Vincent Hooper, born in Reigate, England. British cr ch 1944.
27 November - Shlomo Smiltiner, Israeli master.
Edward Gerstenfeld born in Lviv. Polish-Ukrainian master.
David Polland born in USA ? U.S. Open ch 1937 and NYS ch 1937.

Deaths

Thomas Bright Wilson died of cholera. Secretary of the Manchester Chess Club, England. He invented the first mechanical chess clock in 1883.
Mattia Cavallotti died in Milan. Cavallotti Countergambit.
Matteo Gladig died in Ljubljana. Italian master.
19 March - Eugene Cook, died in Hoboken, NJ. 1st American composer of note.
2 November - Isaac Rice, American inventor and chess patron, died in USA. Rice Gambit.

References

↑ "Short Matches of the 20th Century". Archived from the original on 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2008-06-25.

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[1] "Short Matches of the 20th Century". Archived from the original on 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2008-06-25.

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