Karl Ruben

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Carl (Karl) Ruben (born 4 August 1903, died 28 October 1938 [1] ) was a Danish chess master. [2]

He won a match against Johannes Pedersen (1.5–0.5) at Aalborg 1927, [3] tied for 2nd-3rd in Danish Championship at Vordingborg 1927 (Erik Andersen won), shared 2nd at Copenhagen 1927 (Politiken, Géza Maróczy won), [4] tied for 5-6th at Copenhagen 1928 (Aron Nimzowitsch won), tied for 7-9th at Svendborg 1930 (DEN-ch, Andersen won), [5] and won a simultan game against Alexander Alekhine at Copenhagen 1930. [6]

Ruben played four times for Denmark in Chess Olympiads in 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, and won team silver medal at London 1927. [7]

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References

  1. "Annals of the Danish Club of Chess Problems, 1938" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  2. http://www.chesslive.de/scripts/server.dll?
  3. Welcome to the Chessmetrics site Archived 2006-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Viking Chess". Archived from the original on 2007-09-06. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
  5. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2007-07-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
  6. Alexander Alekhine vs Karl Ruben (1930)
  7. OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess