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Overview of the events of 1940 in chess
The below is a list of events in
chess in the year 1940.
Chess events in brief
Tournaments
Hastings International Chess Congress won by
Frank Parr , 1939/40.
Havana won by
Isaac Kashdan ahead of
Georges Koltanowski , January 1940.
Beverwijk (the 3rd Hoogovenschaaktoernoi ) won by
Max Euwe , January 1940.
Warsaw (a prison tournament), won by
Moishe Lowtzky ahead of
Stanisław Kohn , January/February 1940.
Budapest (Maroczy Jubilaeum ) won by Euwe followed by
Milan Vidmar ,
Gedeon Barcza , etc.
Amsterdam (VAS), won by
Hans Kmoch followed by
Adriaan de Groot ,
Salo Landau and
Lodewijk Prins , etc.
Amsterdam (VVGA), won by Euwe ahead of Prins.
Baarn (Quadrangular ), won by Landau ahead of Euwe and Kmoch, and
Haije Kramer .
Delft (Quadrangular ), won by Kmoch followed by Euwe,
Johannes van den Bosch , and Landau.
Leeuwarden won jointly by
Nicolaas Cortlever , Prins and Landau.
Rotterdam won by Euwe ahead of Vlagsma.
The Hague won by
George Salto Fontein ahead of
Arthur Wijnans .
Ghent (the
Belgian Chess Championship ), won by
Paul Devos .
Santiago de Cuba won by Koltanowski ahead of Diez.
Santiago de Chile (the
Chilean Chess Championship ), won by
Mariano Castillo .
Montevideo (the
Uruguayan Chess Championship ), won by
Arturo Liebstein .
Rio de Janeiro (Torneio Nacional de Selecao ), won by
Walter Cruz , February/March 1940.
Buenos Aires (the 19th
Argentine Chess Championship , Torneo Mayor ) won by
Aristide Gromer followed by
Franciszek Sulik ,
Carlos Guimard , etc.
Lvov (West Ukrainian championship), won by
Abram Khavin , March 1940.
Rosario won by
Gideon Ståhlberg .
Stockholm (unofficial
Swedish Chess Championship ), won by
Nils Bergkvist .
Randers (the
Danish Chess Championship ), won by
Jens Enevoldsen .
Güstrow won by
Carl Ahues and Lachmann, start 20 March 1940.
London (Easter ) won by
Harry Golombek and
Paul List ahead of
Vera Menchik-Stevenson , March 1940.
New York City (the 3rd
U.S. Chess Championship ), won by
Samuel Reshevsky , 27 April – 19 May 1940.
Bad Elster won by
Karl Gilg and
Ludwig Roedl , start 14 May 1940.
Berlin won by
Efim Bogoljubow ahead of
Kurt Richter , start 16 June 1940.
Berlin (the
Berlin City Chess Championship ), won by
Rudolf Palme , June 1940.
Posen won by Ahues and Elstner, July 1940.
Nice (the
French Chess Championship ), won by
Amédée Gibaud .
Sofia (the
Bulgarian Chess Championship ), won by
Oleg Neikirch and
Alexander Tsvetkov .
Dublin (the
Irish Chess Championship ), won by
John O'Hanlon .
Montreal (the 44th
Canadian Chess Championship ), won by
Maurice Fox .
Ventnor City won by
Milton Hanauer and
Sidney Bernstein .
Dallas (the 41st
U.S. Open ), won by
Reuben Fine ahead of
Herman Steiner , August 1940.
Bad Oeynhausen (the 7th
German Chess Championship ), won by
Georg Kieninger ahead of
Paul Felix Schmidt , start 4 August 1940.
Rakovník (the
Bohemia and Moravia Chess Championship ), won by
Jan Foltys , 17–31 August 1940.
Lvov won by
Edward Gerstenfeld ahead of
Izaak Appel , August 1940.
Danzig won by
Walter John ahead of
Gustav Rogmann , September 1940.
Leningrad (Quadrangular ), won by
Viacheslav Ragozin .
Leningrad (the 15th
Leningrad City Chess Championship ) won by
Ilya Rabinovich .
Kiev (USSR championship, semi-final), won by Gerstenfeld and Stolberg.
Moscow (the 12th
USSR Chess Championship ), won jointly by
Igor Bondarevsky and
Andor Lilienthal , followed by
Vasily Smyslov ,
Paul Keres ,
Isaac Boleslavsky and
Mikhail Botvinnik , etc., 5 September – 3 October 1940.
Kiev (the 12th
Ukrainian Chess Championship ), won by Boleslavsky ahead of
David Bronstein .
Kraków /
Krynica /
Warsaw (the 1st
General Government Chess Championship ), won by Bogoljubow and
Anton Kohler , 3–17 November 1940.
Posen (Quadrangular ), won by Rogmann.
Prague (the Kautsky Memorial), won by
Josef Dobiáš .
Melbourne (the Pietzcker Christmas Tournament), won by Lazare Suchowolski, December 1940.
Sydney (the New South Wales championship), won by
Lajos Steiner followed by
Gary Koshnitsky ,
Cecil Purdy , etc., 1940/41.
Matches
Paul Keres won against
Max Euwe (7.5 : 6.5) in The Netherlands (various places) in 1939/40.
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Carlos Maderna defeated
Luis Piazzini (8 : 6), Buenos Aires, Argentina (the 18th ARG-ch).
Walter Cruz beat
Octavio Trompowsky (5.5 : 1.5), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Georg Kieninger defeated
Wilhelm Ernst (6 : 4), Cologne, Germany.
Georg Kieninger defeated
Wilhelm Ernst (5.5 : 4.5), Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Georg Kieninger beat Immo Engert (7.5 : 2.5), Düsseldorf, Germany.
Mikhail Botvinnik beat
Viacheslav Ragozin (8.5 : 3.5), Leningrad, Russia.
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Grigory Levenfish won against
Vladimir Alatortsev (8.5 : 5.5), Russia.
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Births
8 February –
Boris Kogan , Russian/American IM
15 May –
Carlos Bielicki , Argentine IM, 1959
World Junior Champion
2 June –
István Csom in Satoraljaujhely, Hungarian GM
7 June –
Liudmila Belavenets in Moscow, Russian ICCGM and Women's World Correspondence Champion 1984–1992
2 August –
Adrian Hollis in Bristol, English ICCGM
8 August –
Dragutin Sahovic in Kraljevo, Yugoslavian/Serbian GM
24 September –
Renato Naranja , Filipino IM
26 September –
Vladimir Savon in Chernihiv, Soviet/Ukrainian GM,
USSR Champion in 1971
7 October –
Liu Wenzhe , Chinese IM and trainer
10 November –
Miodrag Todorcevic in Belgrade, Serbian/French GM and coach
19 December –
Juzefs Petkēvičs , Latvian GM
Andrew Kalotay , Hungarian-born Canadian/American chess player
Deaths
ca. March -
Dawid Przepiórka killed in a mass execution by the Nazis in
Palmiry .
ca. March -
Achilles Frydman killed in a mass execution in Palmiry.
ca. March -
Stanisław Kohn killed in a mass execution in Palmiry.
ca. March -
Moishe Lowtzky killed in a mass execution in Palmiry.
5 May -
Willi Schlage died in Berlin, Germany.
4 July -
Sammi Fajarowicz died in the Jewish Hospital in Leipzig (Leipziger Israelische Krankenhaus ) of tuberculosis.
Fajarowicz Gambit .
18 July –
Davide Marotti , winner of the first
Italian Championship
11 September -
Peter Fyfe died in Glasgow, Scotland. Fyfe Gambit.
30 November -
Wilhelm Hilse died in Germany.
December -
Walter John died in Berlin, Germany.
December -
František Schubert died in the
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia .
Moshe Hirschbein , Polish master, died by the Nazis.
Max Walter , Slovak master, died by the Nazis.
Arthur Kaufmann , Austrian master, died by the Nazis. Other sources give 1938 as the year of his death. He was a philosopher and ended his chess career in 1917. No philosophical works by him or photographs of him survive. His burial site was destroyed during the bombing of WWII.
Kalikst Morawski , Polish master, died probably in
Siberia .
References
^ Tadeusz Wolsza, Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy... Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich , Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa 1995 (tom 1), 1996 (t.2), 1999 (t.3)
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http://www.westlondonchess.com/node/134
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Wayback Machine British National Chess Centre
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Hooper, David ;
Whyld, Kenneth (1992),
The Oxford Companion to Chess (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 297, 319,
ISBN
0-19-280049-3
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"Matches1930-49" . Archived from
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"Title Unknown" . Archived from
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