This article lists some of the famous small chess tournaments in history.
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This article lists some of the famous small chess tournaments in history.
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The list comprises only regular tournaments with three or four players (Triangular or Quadrangular).
The first international tournament with four players (two Spanish and two Italian) was held, at the invitation of King Philip II of Spain, at the Royal Court of Spain in Madrid in 1575.
Efim Bogoljubow also known as Efim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow was a Russian-born German chess grandmaster.
Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a Czechoslovak and Soviet chess player and writer. He was among the first recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Flohr dominated many tournaments of the pre-World War II years, and by the late 1930s was considered a contender for the World Championship. However, his patient, positional style was overtaken by the sharper, more tactical methods of the younger Soviet echelon after World War II.
Salo (Salomon) Landau was a Dutch chess player, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.
Friedrich Sämisch was a German chess player and chess theorist. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950.
Dawid Przepiórka was a Jewish chess player of the early twentieth century, who won the first Polish championship.
GerszRotlewi was a Polish chess master.
Moishe (Mojżesz) Lowtzky (Łowcki) (1881–1940) was a Ukrainian–Polish chess master.
Alexander Flamberg was a Polish chess master.
Hans Fahrni was a Swiss chess master.
Dawid Daniuszewski (1885–1944) was a Polish chess master.
Jakob Adolf Seitz was a German–Argentine chess master and journalist.
Heinrich Wolf was an Austrian journalist and chess master of Jewish origin.
Adolf Georg Olland was the leading Dutch chess master in the time before Max Euwe. Born in Utrecht, he was a medical doctor.
Henri Gerard Marie Weenink was a Dutch chess player and a problem composer.
Events in chess in 1932:
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.
The below is a list of events in chess in 1939.
Events in chess in 1916:
Events in chess in 1917:
