1939 in Chess - Tournaments

Tournaments

• Hastings International Chess Congress won by László Szabó ahead of Max Euwe, 1938/39.
• Sydney (the Australian Chess Championship), won by Gary Koshnitsky, 1938/39.
• Wanganui (the New Zealand Chess Championship), won by John Dunlop, 1938/39.
• Riga (the Latvian Chess Championship), won by Vladimirs Petrovs, 1938/39.
• Warsaw won by Mieczysław Najdorf ahead of Dawid Przepiórka, 1938/39.
• Karlsruhe won by Anton Kohler, Efim Bogoljubow and Eisinger Jr, 26 December 1938 - January 1939.
• Leningrad-Moscow won by Salo Flohr ahead of Samuel Reshevsky, January 3 - February 1, 1939.
• Amsterdam (KNSB), won by Euwe, Szabó and Flohr
• Amsterdam (VARA), won by Salo Landau and Euwe.
• Baarn (I) (Quadrangular), won by Flohr.
• Baarn (II) (Quadrangular), won by Euwe.
• Beverwijk (Quadrangular), won by Nicolaas Cortlever.
• Amsterdam (the 12th Dutch Chess Championship), won by Landau.
• Birmingham won by Lodewijk Prins ahead of Paul List and H.E. Price.
• Budapest won by Zoltán von Balla and Szabó.
• Kemeri–Riga won by Flohr ahead of Gideon Ståhlberg and Szabó, March 1939.
• Warsaw won by Najdorf ahead of Paulin Frydman.
• Lodz won by Izaak Appel and Jakub Kolski, ahead of Teodor Regedziński, March 1939.
• Lvov (Championship of the City), won by Izak Schächter ahead of Henryk Friedman.
• Minsk (the Belarusian Chess Championship), won by Gavril Veresov.
• Leningrad (the Leningrad City Chess Championship), won by Georgy Lisitsin.
• Lübeck won by Alfred Brinckmann, start 2 April 1939.
• Krefeld won by Georg Kieninger and Ludwig Engels, start 6 April 1939.
• Bad Warmbrunn won by Rudolf Keller, Paul Michel and Ludwig Rellstab, start 7 April 1939.
• Aberdeen (the Scottish Chess Championship), won by Max Pavey, April 1939.
• Margate won by Paul Keres ahead of José Raúl Capablanca and Flohr, 12–21 April 1939.
• Leningrad (the 11th USSR Chess Championship), won by Mikhail Botvinnik ahead of Alexander Kotov, April 15 - May 16, 1939.
• Stuttgart (Europa-Turnier) won by Bogoljubow ahead of Kurt Richter, start 15 May 1939.
• Montreux (the Swiss Chess Championship), won by Henri Grob.
• Paris won by Nicolas Rossolimo ahead of Savielly Tartakower.
• Rome (the Italian Chess Championship), won by Mario Monticelli ahead of Vincenzo Castaldi.
• Zagreb (the Yugoslav Chess Championship), won by Milan Vidmar ahead of Vasilije Tomović.
• Prague won by Jiří Pelikán ahead of Karel Opočenský, František Schubert and Karel Skalička.
• Buenos Aires (the Argentine Chess Championship, Torneo Mayor), won by Ion Traian Iliescu followed jointly by Carlos Maderna, Luis Piazzini, and José Gerschman.
• London (Championship of the City), won by George Alan Thomas.
• London (League Congress), won by William Winter.
• Durban (the South African Chess Championship) won by Wolfgang Heidenfeld.
• Oslo (the 19th Nordic Chess Championship), won by Ståhlberg and Erik Lundin.
• Helsinki (the Finnish Chess Championship), won by Osmo Kaila.
• Copenhagen (the Danish Chess Championship, play-off), won by Holger Norman-Hansen.
• Stockholm (the Swedish Chess Championship), won by Ståhlberg ahead of Rudolf Spielmann and Nils Bergkvist.
• Gothenburg won by Flohr and Spielmann.
• Tallinn (the Estonian Chess Championship), won by Ilmar Raud.
• Jerusalem (Championship of the City), won by Moshe Czerniak, June 1939.
• Berlin (the Berlin City Chess Championship), won by Mölbitz ahead of Paul Mross, June 1939.
• Bad Elster won by Erich Eliskases followed by Josef Lokvenc, Herbert Heinicke and Michel, start 4 June 1939.
• Vienna won by Eliskases ahead of Hans Müller, start 11 June 1939.
• Bad Harzburg won by Eliskases ahead of Ståhlberg, start 25 June 1939.
• Bad Oeynhausen (the 6th German Chess Championship), won by Eliskases followed by Lokvenc, Karl Gilg, etc., start 9 July 1939.
• Ventnor City won by Milton Hanauer ahead of Fred Reinfeld, 8–16 July 1939.
• New York (the 40th U.S. Open, American Chess Federation Championship), won by Reuben Fine followed by Reshevsky, Israel Albert Horowitz, etc., 17–29 July 1939.
• Bournemouth won by Max Euwe ahead of Ernest Klein and Flohr, August 1939.
• Rosario won by Petrovs, followed by Eliskases, Vladas Mikėnas, etc., 21–28 September 1939.
• Montevideo (Millington Drake Tournament) won by Alexander Alekhine ahead of Harry Golombek and Vera Menchik, 21–29 September 1939.
• Buenos Aires (Circulo) won by Keres and Miguel Najdorf, ahead of Ståhlberg and Czerniak, 2–19 October 1939.
• New York (the 23rd Marshall Chess Club Championship), won by Fine followed by Hanauer, Frank James Marshall, David Polland, Herbert Seidman, Edward Lasker, etc.
• Hampstead won by Imre König and Philip Stuart Milner-Barry, December 1939.
• Dnipropetrovsk (the 11th Ukrainian Chess Championship), won by Isaac Boleslavsky, 12–31 December 1939.
• Moscow (the Moscow City Chess Championship), won by Andor Lilienthal ahead of Vasily Panov and Vasily Smyslov, 1939/40.
• Hastings International Chess Congress won by Frank Parr, 1939/40.