Wilhelm von Stamm (died 17 January 1905) was a Latvian chess master.
He won at Riga 1899 (the 1st Baltic Congress, B tournament), took 4th at Riga 1900 (T. Muller won), [1] tied for 11th-12th at Riga 1900/01 (Kārlis Bētiņš won), shared 1st with Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz, K. Behting and W. Sohn at Dorpat 1901 (the 2nd Baltic Congress),[ citation needed ] won at Riga 1902, took 18th at Kiev 1903 chess tournament (the 3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament, Mikhail Chigorin won), and took 10th at Reval 1904 (Bernhard Gregory and V. Ostrogsky won). [2]
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