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Águas De São Pedro–São Paulo 1941 Chess Tournament
The Águas de São Pedro International Tournament ( pt, Torneio Internacional de Águas de São Pedro) was a chess tournament held from 2 to 26 July 1941 in Águas de São Pedro and São Paulo. The event, the first international chess tournament of Brazil, was organized by the São Paulo Chess Club and sponsored by Antonio and Octavio Moura Andrade, being the latter founder of Águas de São Pedro and owner of the ''Grande Hotel''. European masters were invited, as well as South American masters. The representatives of Brazil were selected by the Brazilian Confederation of Chess and the São Paulo Chess Club. The tournament would begin on June 30, but it was preferred to start the competition on July 2. Most of the matches took place at the ''Grande Hotel'' in Águas de São Pedro, but the last four have occurred in São Paulo. Of these four, two occurred in the foyer of the Municipal Theatre, and two occurred at the headquarters of São Paulo Chess Club, on the second floor of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess Tournament
A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard form of chess competition among serious players. Today, the most recognized chess tournaments for individual competition include the Linares chess tournament (now defunct) and the Tata Steel chess tournament. The largest team chess tournament is the Chess Olympiad, in which players compete for their country's team in the same fashion as the Olympic Games. Since the 1960s, chess computers have occasionally entered human tournaments, but this is no longer common. Most chess tournaments are organized and ruled according to the World Chess Federation (FIDE) handbook, which offers guidelines and regulations for conducting tournaments. Chess tournaments are mainly held in either round-robin style, Swiss system style or elimination style to determine a winning par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariano Castillo
Mariano Castillo Larenas (25 December 1905 – 23 September 1970) was a Chilean chess master. Over the period of 30 years, he won nine times Chilean Chess Championship (1924, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1934, 1940, 1947, 1949, and 1953). Castillo participated in several international tournaments where took 8th at Mar del Plata it 1928 (Roberto Grau won), tied for 6-10th at Buenos Aires 1934/35 (South American Chess Championship, Luis Piazzini won), tied for 9-10th at Mar del Plata 1936 (Isaías Pleci won), took 6th at Aguas de Sao Pedro/São Paulo 1941 (Erich Eliskases and Carlos Guimard won), took 3rd, behind Guimard and Miguel Najdorf, at Viña del Mar 1945, took 6th at Viña del Mar 1947 (Gideon Ståhlberg won), tied for 14-15th at Mar del Plata 1948 (Eliskases won), tied for 15-16th at Mar del Plata 1950 (Svetozar Gligorić won), took 9th at Venice 1950 (Alexander Kotov won), and tied for 14-15th at Mar del Plata 1954 (zonal, Oscar Panno won). He played twice at first board for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Chess Tournaments
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1941 In Chess
Below is a list of events in chess in the year 1941. Chess events in brief * ''Basic Chess Endings'' by Reuben Fine was published. * 29 August 1941 – Gideon Ståhlberg played a 400-game simultaneous exhibition in Buenos Aires; 364 wins, 14 draws, 22 losses. * 8–14 September 1941 – ''Europaturnier'' held in Munich, was organised by Ehrhardt Post, the Chief Executive of Nazi ''Grossdeutscher Schachbund''. Max Euwe had declined the invitation for München 1941 due to his "occupational obligations", as manager of a groceries business. This time he refused to participate, because Alexander Alekhine was invited. Euwe mentioned futile reasons. The real motive was Alekhine's offence of Euwe in his anti-Semitic articles. Alekhine wrote six Nazi articles which first appeared in the Paris newspaper '' Pariser Zeitung'' in March 1941. He wrote a series of articles for the ''Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden'' called "Jewish and Aryan Chess." The articles were reproduced in ''Deutsc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João De Souza Mendes
João de Souza Mendes Júnior (23 June"Mundo del Ajedrez" August–September 1969, p. 253. But "23 July" according to Gaige. 1892 – 10 July 1969) was a seven-time Brazilian chess champion and physician. Prior to emergence of Henrique Mecking, he was Brazil's most accomplished (given the span of his dominance) chess player. Born in the Azores, Portugal, Souza Mendes played in the Brazilian Chess Championship 29 times, winning in 1927 (the first year the tournament was held), 1928, 1929, 1930, 1943, 1954, and 1958. He finished second five times, the last time in 1965 at age 73 when thirteen-year-old Henrique Mecking won, and took third five times. He played for Brazil in Chess Olympiads at Buenos Aires 1939 and Helsinki 1952. Souza Mendes died in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Balparda
Julio César Balparda Muró (c. 1900 – 9 July 1942 in Montevideo) was an Uruguayan chess master. He won the Uruguayan Chess Championship three times (1929, 1934, and 1936). He played several times in the South American Chess Championship; tied for 10-12th at Mar del Plata 1928 (''I Magistral Ciudad de Mar del Plata, III Campeonato Sudamericano'', Roberto Grau won), tied for 3rd-6th at Mar del Plata 1934 ( Aaron Schwartzman won), took 17th at Buenos Aires 1934/35 (Luis Piazzini won), took 15th at Mar del Plata 1936 (Isaías Pleci won), took 14th at São Paulo 1937 (Rodrigo Flores won), and took 11th at Montevideo (Carrasco) 1938 (Alexander Alekhine won). In his last international tournaments, he took 5th at Montevideo 1941, and 10th at Aguas de Sao Pedro/São Paulo 1941, both won by Erich Eliskases Erich Gottlieb Eliskases (15 February 1913 – 2 February 1997) was a chess player who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition. In the late 1930s h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Schnaiderman
Boris Solomonovitch Schnaiderman ( Russian Борис Соломонович Шнайдерман; 17 May 1917 – 18 May 2016) was a Brazilian translator, writer and essayist. Born in Uman, Ukraine, in 1917, he went to Odesa when he was barely more than one year old, living there until he was 8, when he came to Brazil. He was the first teacher of Russian literature of University of São Paulo, in 1960, despite being graduated in agronomy. He translated renowned Russian writers and poets, like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Babel, Pasternak, Pushkin and Mayakovsky. When he was eight years old, before leaving the USSR, he witnessed the filming of the Odesa Steps sequence in Sergey Eisenstein's film '' The Battleship Potemkin''. Schnaiderman only later realised what he had seen when he saw the film in the cinema. He became a naturalized citizen of Brazil in 1941 and fought in World War II with the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, an experience that inspired him to write t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Bolbochán
Julio Bolbochán (Buenos Aires, 20 March 1920 – Caracas, 28 June 1996) was the Argentine chess champion in 1946 and 1948. He learned the game from his older brother, Jacobo Bolbochán, later an International Master. He represented Argentina in seven Chess Olympiads from 1950 to 1970. Bolbochán earned the International Master title in 1950 and the International Grandmaster title in 1977. He had several successes at Mar del Plata: shared first with Erich Eliskases in 1951, shared first with Héctor Rossetto in 1952, and shared first with Miguel Najdorf in 1956. Bolbochán qualified to play in the Sousse interzonal but didn't participate due to the Argentine Chess Federation not having enough funds to send him. After 1976 he lived as a chess teacher in Venezuela. He represented Venezuela in the 1977 Maccabiah Games, 1981 Maccabiah Games, 1985 Maccabiah Games, and 1989 Maccabiah Games. He was the chess coach at the Universidad Simón Bolívar Chess Club for over 20 years. Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristide Gromer
Aristide Gromer (Dunkirk, 11 April 1908 – ?) was a French chess master. Gromer was thrice French Champion (1933, 1937, and 1938). He tied for 5-6th at Paris 1923 ( Victor Kahn won), took 3rd at Biarritz 1926 (André Chéron and Frederic Lazard won), took 2nd, behind Chéron, at Saint-Cloude 1929, shared 2nd with Savielly Tartakower, behind Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, at Paris 1930, took 2nd, behind Aimé Gibaud, at Rouen 1930, took 9th at Paris 1933 (Alexander Alekhine won), took 6th at Sitges 1934 (Andor Lilienthal won), took 2nd, behind Baldur Hoenlinger, at Paris (''L'Echiquier'') 1938. As a Champion of France, he won a match against Champion of Belgium, Alberic O'Kelly de Galway, (2.5 : 1.5) in December 1938. Gromer played for France in Chess Olympiads: * In 1930, at third board in 3rd Chess Olympiad in Hamburg (+4 –6 =1); * In 1931, at second board in 4th Chess Olympiad in Prague (+3 –9 =4); * In 1939, at second board in 8th Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires (+6 –4 =7). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markas Luckis
Markas (Marcos) Luckis (17 January 1905, in Pskov – 9 February 1973, in Buenos Aires) was a Lithuanian–Argentine chess master. Biography Luckis twice won the Kaunas City Chess Championship in 1927 and 1928. Markas Luckis played for Lithuania in five official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads. * In July 1931, on reserve board at 4th Chess Olympiad in Prague (+5 –4 =6); * In July 1933, on fourth board at 5th Chess Olympiad in Folkestone (+3 –4 =1); * In August 1935, on reserve board at 6th Chess Olympiad in Warsaw (+8 –2 =6); * In August/September 1936, on fourth board at 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad in Munich (+9 –2 =9); * In July/August 1937, on fourth board at 7th Chess Olympiad in Stockholm (+7 –1 =9); * In August/September 1939, on third board at 8th Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires (+7 –8 =5). Luckis won three individual medals: one silver in 1936, and two bronze in 1935 and 1937. In September 1939, when World War II broke out, Luckis, along with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Águas De São Pedro
Águas de São Pedro () is a Brazilian municipality in the state of São Paulo located from the state capital.) of the Logistics and Transport Secretariat of the State of São Paulo. At only , it is the second-smallest Brazilian municipality in terms of area, and had an estimated population of 3,521 . Águas de São Pedro means "Waters of Saint Peter". Its name is derived from the mineral springs in its territory and their location, which before the city's founding were part of the municipality of São Pedro (Saint Peter). The average annual temperature in the city is , and most of the municipality's vegetation consists of reforested area. In 2016 there were 2,491 vehicles in the city. Exclusively an urban area, with no rural areas, the city had four health facilities in 2009. Its Human Development Index (HDI) is 0.854, the second highest in the state of São Paulo, as well as the second highest in Brazil, surpassed only by São Caetano do Sul. Águas de São Pedro was incor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Engels
Ludwig Engels (11 December 1905, Düsseldorf, Germany – 10 January 1967, São Paulo, Brazil) was a German–Brazilian chess master. Biography In 1928, Engels tied for 1st-2nd with van Nüss in Düsseldorf. In 1929, he took 4th in Cologne. In 1929, he won in Duisburg. In 1929, he tied for 1st-3rd in Duisburg. In 1930, he tied for 1st-2nd with Weissgerber in Frankfurt. In 1930, Engels lost a match to Ludwig Roedl (+2 –5 =1) in Nürnberg. In 1931, he tied for 11-12th in Swinemünde (27th DSB Kongress). In June 1933, he tied for 1st-2nd with Koch in Swinemünde. In June 1933, tied for 8th-9th in Bad Aachen (Efim Bogoljubow won). In 1934, he tied for 1st-2nd with Boeck in Bad Salzuflen Ostern. In May–June 1934, he tied for 12th-14th in Bad Aachen (2nd GER-ch). The event was won by Carl Carls. In April 1935, he tied for 1st-2nd with Ludwig Rellstab in Cologne. In August 1935, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Bad Nauheim (Efim Bogoljubow won). In June 1936, he took 2nd after Alexander Alekhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
