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Wilhelm Von Stamm
Wilhelm von Stamm (died 17 January 1905) was a Latvian chess master. He won at Riga 1899 (the 1st Baltic Congress, B tournament), took 4th at Riga 1900 (T. Muller won), tied for 11th-12th at Riga 1900/01 (Kārlis Bētiņš won), shared 1st with Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz, K. Behting and W. Sohn at Dorpat 1901 (the 2nd Baltic Congress), won at Riga 1902, took 18th at Kiev 1903 chess tournament The 3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament took place in the rooms of the Kiev Chess Society in the Popov Building at No. 29 Kreshchatyk in Kiev on September 1–26, 1903. The Society used the rooms of the Kiev Bicycle Association which had its premi ... (the 3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament, Mikhail Chigorin won), and took 10th at Reval 1904 ( Bernhard Gregory and V. Ostrogsky won). References 19th-century Latvian people 1905 deaths Latvian chess players Baltic-German people Latvian nobility Year of birth missing 19th-century chess players {{Latvia-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kārlis Bētiņš
Kārlis Bētiņš (german: Carl Behting; 27 October 1867, Bērzmuiža – 28 March 1943, Riga) was a Latvian chess master and composer of studies. He tied for 3rd-5th at Riga 1899 (the 1st Baltic Congress, his brother Roberts Bētiņš won), took 3rd at Riga 1900 (won by T. Muller), won at Riga 1900/01, shared 1st with Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz, W. Sohn and Wilhelm von Stamm at Dorpat (Tartu) 1901 (the 2nd Baltic Congress), and tied for 3rd-4th at Reval (Tallinn) 1904 (Bernhard Gregory won). In 1902–1910, he was co-editor with Paul Kerkovius of the ''Baltische Schachblätter''. After World War I, he took 3rd, behind Hermanis Matisons and Fricis Apšenieks, at Riga 1924 (1st LAT-ch). Bētinš played for Latvia in the 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924 (+7 –4 =2), where he took 4th place (team) and tied for 4-7th in Consolation Cup (individual; Karel Hromadka won). The Latvian Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5) was named as a tribute to Kārlis Bētiņš, who analyzed it in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz
Karl (Carl) Wilhelm Rosenkrantz (russian: Карл Вильямович Розенкранц, ''Karl Vilyamovich Rosenkrantz''; 13 June 1876 – 1942) was a Russian Empire, Russian and Soviet Union, Soviet chess master. Chess career Rosenkrantz was born in Libava (now Liepāja, Latvia), then in the Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire. He shared 1st with Robert Behting (Roberts Betinš), followed by Kārlis Bētiņš, etc., at Riga 1899 (the 1st Baltic Chess Championship, Baltic Chess Congress) and lost a play-off game to him, took 6th at Berlin 1899/1900 (Curt von Bardeleben won), tied for 8-9th at Munich 1900 (DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier A'', Rudolf Swiderski won), took 11th at Moscow 1901 (the 2nd Russian Chess Championship, All-Russian Masters' Tournament, Mikhail Chigorin won), shared 1st with K. Behting, Wilhelm von Stamm and W. Sohn at Dorpat 1901, and won at Riga 1907. Before World War I, he played in many tournaments in St. Petersburg. He tied for 2nd-3rd (Eugene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiev 1903 Chess Tournament
The 3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament took place in the rooms of the Kiev Chess Society in the Popov Building at No. 29 Kreshchatyk in Kiev on September 1–26, 1903. The Society used the rooms of the Kiev Bicycle Association which had its premises on the second floor of the aforementioned building on the corner of the Kreshchatyk & Lutheran (#29 Kreshchatyk) right next door to the Warsaw Café. A Polish nobleman, count A.F. Plater, the president of the Kiev Chess Society (''Kievskoye Shakhmatnoye Obshchestvo'') was the tournament patron, Loxting and Vengerov were tournament officials. The results and standings:http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz80.pdf : References {{reflist 1903 in the Russian Empire 1903 in Ukraine International chess tournaments Chess in Ukraine 1903 in chess 1900s in Kyiv 1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Chess Championship
The Russian Chess Championship has taken various forms. Winners by year (men) Imperial Russia In 1874, Emanuel Schiffers defeated Andrey Chardin in a match held in St. Petersburg with five wins and four losses. Schiffers was considered the first Russian champion until his student, Mikhail Chigorin, defeated him in a match held in St. Petersburg in 1879. Chigorin won with seven wins, four losses, and two draws. In 1899, the format of the championship was changed to a round-robin tournament known as the All-Russian Masters' Tournament. The winners were: : RSFSR After the formation of the USSR the USSR Chess Championship was established as the national championship. However the Russian championship continued to exist as the championship of the RSFSR. The first two USSR championships in 1920 and 1923 were also recognized as RSFSR championships; the modern numbering of Russian championships begins with these two tournaments. The cities Moscow and Leningrad held their own championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Chigorin
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also ''Tchigorin''; russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a major source of inspiration for the " Soviet chess school", which dominated the chess world in the middle and latter parts of the 20th century. Chess career Chigorin was born in Gatchina but moved to nearby Saint Petersburg some time later. His father worked in the Okhtensk gunpowder works. Chigorin's parents died young and Chigorin entered the Gatchinsk Orphans' Institute at the age of 10. He became serious about chess uncommonly late in life; his schoolteacher taught him the moves at the age of 16, but he did not take to the game until around 1874, having first finished his studies before commencing a career as a government officer. Once smitten with the game, he terminated his emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Gregory
Bernhard Gregory ( in Tallinn – 2 February 1939 in Berlin) was a Baltic German chess master. Life Bernhard Gregory was born on in Reval, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire (now Tallinn, Estonia) as a son of advocate Ferdinand Oscar Gregory (born 1843 in Kolu Manor, ''Heinrichshof'', now in Vaiatu village) and Alexandrine Emmi Gregory (born 1854 in Vändra). Bernhard studied at the Dome School of Reval from 1885 to 1893. In 1898 he moved to Munich to study chemistry and engineering, which he later continued in Berlin. In 1902 he married at the age of 23 with an 18-year-old Ida Hempel from Leipzig. The couple lived in Schöneberg, Berlin, and had two daughters, Iselin (1903) and Maud Dolly (1905). In 1914 the couple divorced, Ida moved back to Leipzig with the daughters. Chess In 1902, he tied for 16–19th in Hannover (13th DSB–Congress, ''Hauptturnier'', Walter John won). In 1903/04, he tied for 9–10th in Berlin (Horatio Caro won). In 1904, he shared 1st in Reval, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Latvian People
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 (Roman numerals, MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (Roman numerals, MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The Industrial Revolution, First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Gunpowder empires, Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1905 Deaths
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Latvian Chess Players
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Baltic-German People
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Latvian Nobility
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