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Overview of the events of 1915 in chess
Events in
chess in 1915:
Chess events in brief
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
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.
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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.
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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