1944 in Chess - Tournaments

Tournaments

• Radom (the 5th GG-ch), won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Fedor Bogatyrchuk, February 1944.
• Mar del Plata won by Herman Pilnik and Miguel Najdorf ahead of Paul Michel and Carlos Guimard, 15–31 March 1944.
• La Plata won by Najdorf followed by Gideon Stahlberg, Julio Bolbochán, etc.
• Buenos Aires won by Moshe Czerniak.
• Rio de Janeiro won by Erich Eliskases.
• New York (the U.S. Chess Championship), won by Arnold Denker, April - May 1944.
• Moscow (the 13th USSR Chess Championship), won by Mikhail Botvinnik followed by Vasily Smyslov, Isaac Boleslavsky, Salo Flohr, etc., 21 May - 17 June 1944.
• Krakow won by Rudolf Teschner, start 27 May 1944.
• Posen, Reichsgau Wartheland, (Reichsmeisterschaft "Kraft durch Freude"), won by Hans Müller.
• Brunn (the Bohemia and Moravia Chess Championship), won by Karel Opočenský.
• Paris (Championship of the City), won by César Boutteville.
• Lidköping (the Swedish Chess Championship) won by Stig Lundholm, 26 June - 1 July 1944.
• Gijon won by Alexander Alekhine ahead of Antonio Medina, 14–23 July 1944.
• Boston (the 45th U.S. Open), won by Samuel Reshevsky ahead of Anthony Santasiere, 29 July - 10 August 1944.
• Stockholm won by Erik Lundin ahead of Gösta Danielsson, 21–31 August 1944.
• Ivanovo won by Alexander Kotov and Viacheslav Ragozin, 20 September - 8 October 1944.
• Riga (the Baltic Chess Championship), won by Paul Keres, 25 December 1944 - 9 January 1945.
• Moscow (Championship of the City), won by Smyslov followed by Ragozin, Andor Lilienthal, Flohr, December 1944 - January 1945.