1914 in Chess - Tournaments

Tournaments

  • St. Petersburg (the 8th All-Russian Masters' Tournament), won by Alexander Alekhine and Aron Nimzowitsch, followed by Alexander Flamberg, Moishe Lowtzky, Grigory Levenfish, etc. December 1913 – January 1914.
  • New York (Manhattan CC), won by Abraham Kupchik, January.
  • St. Petersburg (Hexagonal), won by Peter Romanovsky and Sergey von Freymann.
  • Kiev (Quadrangular), won by Alexander Evensohn ahead of Efim Bogoljubow and Fedor Bogatyrchuk.
  • Cracow won by Flamberg ahead of Józef Dominik, March.
  • St. Petersburg won by Emanuel Lasker followed by José Raúl Capablanca, Alekhine, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Frank James Marshall, 21 April – 22 May.
  • Baden bei Wien (Gambit Tournament), won by Rudolf Spielmann followed by Savielly Tartakower, Carl Schlechter, Gyula Breyer, etc.
  • Berlin (Quadrangular), won by Erich Cohn and Spielmann.
  • Vienna (Quadrangular), won by Siegfried Reginald Wolf and Ernst Grünfeld.
  • Geneve won by Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky.
  • Paris (Quadrangular), won by Marshall and Alekhine, 12–14 July.
  • Lyon won by Alphonse Goetz ahead of Frédéric Lazard and A. Téléguine, finished on 31 July.
  • Mannheim (the 19th DSB Congress), won by Alekhine ahead of Milan Vidmar, 20 July – 1 August.
  • Chester (the British Chess Championship), won by Frederick Yates and Joseph Henry Blackburne. Yates won the playoff on forfeit, finished on 21 August.
  • Memphis (the 15th Western Chess Association Championship), won by Jefferson and Wolbrecht, finished 26 August.
  • Baden-Baden won by Flamberg, followed by Bogoljubow, Ilya Rabinovich, etc.
  • Triberg won by Bogoljubow, followed by Rabinovich, Peter Romanovsky, etc. 1914/1915.
  • Vienna won by Grünfeld ahead of Kalikst Morawski, 1914/1915.
  • Vienna (the 6th Trebitsch Memorial), won by Schlechter ahead of Arthur Kaufmann, 1914/15.

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