The below is a list of events in chess in the year 1942.
(Toshev 01 Rabar; Tsvetkov 01 Tekavčić; Neikirch 10 Šubarić; Bidev 10 Petek; Kantardzhiev 00 Jerman; Dimitrov 00 Dumić; unknown 00 Horvath; Popov 01 Licul)
(Rohaček ½½ Rabar; Potuček 00 Tekavčić; Ramharter ½1 Šubarić; Ujtelky 0½ Petek; Milan 0½ Jerman; Dienes 11 Horvath; Miština ½1 Dumić; Lauda 01 Licul) [8]
Efim Bogoljubow, also known as Ewfim Dimitrijewitsch 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.
Vladimirs Petrovs was a Latvian Russian chess player.
Klaus Junge was one of the youngest Chilean-German chess masters. In several tournaments during the 1940s he held his own among the world's leading players. An officer in the Wehrmacht, he died during the Battle of Welle shortly before the end of World War II.
Paul Felix Schmidt was an Estonian and German chess player, writer and chemist.
Jan Foltys was a Czech chess International Master.
Gösta Stoltz was a Swedish chess grandmaster.
Kurt Paul Otto Joseph Richter was a German chess International Master and chess writer.
Carl Oscar Ahues was a German chess International Master.
Alfred M. Ehrhardt Post was a German chess master and functionary.
Alfred Brinckmann was a German chess International Master, author and functionary from Kiel.
Walter Niephaus was a German chess master.
Below is a list of events in chess in the year 1941.
The main organiser of Salzburg 1942, Ehrhardt Post, the Chief Executive of Nazi Grossdeutscher Schachbund, intended to bring together the six strongest players of Germany, the occupied and neutral European countries; world champion Alexander Alekhine, former champion Max Euwe, challenger Paul Keres, former challenger Efim Bogoljubov, winner of European tournament at Munich 1941 Gösta Stoltz, and German champion Paul Felix Schmidt. Euwe withdrew due to "illness". Actually, Euwe refused to participate because Alekhine was invited. His place was occupied by German sub-champion, the eighteen-years-old Klaus Junge. They made Salzburg 1942 the world's second, after a tournament purporting to be the first European Championship (Europameisterschaft) in Munich, strongest tournament in 1942.
The below is a list of events in chess in 1939.
The below is a list of events in chess in the year 1940.
The below is a list of events in chess in 1943.
The below is a list of events in chess in the year 1944.
The below is a list of events in chess in the year 1945.
Events in chess in 1914:
Events in chess in 1915: