1942 in Chess - Tournaments

Tournaments

• Moscow (the Moscow City Chess Championship), won by Isaak Mazel ahead of Vladimirs Petrovs, 1941/42.
• Dresden won by Klaus Junge ahead of Rudolf Keller, 3–8 January 1942.
• Beverwijk (the 5th Hoogovens), won by Max Euwe ahead of Nicolaas Cortlever, January 1942.
• Leeuwarden (the Dutch Chess Championship, Qualification), won jointly by Arnold van den Hoek, Cortlever and Adriaan de Groot.
• Moscow won by Igor Bondarevsky ahead of Petrovs, February 17 - March 12, 1942.
• Warsaw (Ghetto) won by Henryk Pogorieły ahead of Abram Szpiro, February - April 1942.
• Mar del Plata won by Miguel Najdorf ahead of Herman Pilnik and Gideon Ståhlberg.
• Buenos Aires (Club Argentino de Ajedrez), won by Stahlberg ahead of Pilnik.
• Buenos Aires (the Argentine Chess Championship), won by Pilnik ahead of Jacobo Bolbochán.
• Rio de Janeiro (the Brazilian Chess Championship, Qualification), won by Duarte ahead of João de Souza Mendes.
• Lima (the Peruvian Chess Championship), won by José Andrés Pérez.
• Montevideo (the Uruguayan Chess Championship), won by Arturo Liebstein.
• Rostock won by Carl Carls ahead of Junge, start 29 March 1942.
• Regensburg won by Friedrich Nürnberg ahead of Georg Klaus, March 29 - April 5, 1942.
• Sverdlovsk won by Viacheslav Ragozin ahead of Petrovs, March 22 - April 11, 1942.
• New York (the 4th U.S. Chess Championship) won by Isaac Kashdan and Samuel Reshevsky, 10–30 April 1942.
• Cottbus won by Efim Bogoljubow and Milan Vidmar, Jr., start 19 April 1942.
• Bad Elster won by Walter Niephaus ahead of Friedrich Sämisch, start 10 May 1942.
• Salzburg won by Alexander Alekhine ahead of Paul Keres, 9–18 June 1942.
• Bad Oeynhausen (the 9th German Chess Championship), won by Ludwig Rellstab ahead of Hans Müller and Klaus, 22 June - July 4, 1942.
• Leipzig won by Niephaus ahead of Junge.
• Brussels (the Belgian Chess Championship), won by Albéric O'Kelly de Galway.
• Sofia (the Bulgarian Chess Championship), won by Yury Toshev, July 19 - August 2, 1942.
• Budapest (the Hungarian Chess Championship), won by Gedeon Barcza ahead of Géza Füster.
• Nørresundby (the Danish Chess Championship), won by Bjørn Nielsen ahead of Jens Enevoldsen.
• Östersund (the Swedish Chess Championship) won by Erik Lundin.
• Stockholm won by Folke Ekström and Stig Lundholm.
• Kuibyshev won by Isaac Boleslavsky ahead of Vasily Smyslov, July 27 - August 19, 1942.
• Washington, D.C. (Washington Chess Divan Championship), won by Reuben Fine.
• Ventnor City won by Daniel Yanofsky ahead of Jacob Levin.
• Dallas (the 43rd U.S. Open), won by Herman Steiner and Yanofsky, 22–30 August 1942.
• Munich (Europameisterschaft), won by Alekhine ahead of Keres, 14–26 September 1942.
• Munich (Wertungsturnier), won by Gösta Danielsson ahead of József Szily, 14–26 September 1942.
• Warsaw/Lublin/Krakow (the 3rd GG-ch), won by Alekhine followed by Junge, Bogoljubow, Friedrich Sämisch, Rudolf Keller, Georg Kieninger, etc., 11–24 October 1942.
• Moscow (Championship of the City), won by Smyslov ahead of Boleslavsky, November 1942.
• Berlin won by Carl Ahues ahead of Rellstab, start 5 December 1942.
• Prague (Duras 60-jährigen Jubiläum), won by Alekhine and Junge, December 1942.