Events in chess in 1916:

Chess events in brief

* The 1st Isaac Rice Memorial Tournament – fourteen participants played in New York City, from January 18 to February 4, 1916. Wealthy German–American inventor Isaac Leopold Rice (1850–1915) was a lover of chess ( Rice Gambit) and a patron of chess competitions. The event included two stages (preliminaries and final). The preliminaries started as a

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. Five players qualified for the final. José Raúl Capablanca played superior chess in the preliminaries. Since the results of the preliminaries carried over into the finals, Capablanca with a 3½-point lead was a heavy favorite to win the tournament. Dawid Janowski, Boris Kostić and Abraham Kupchik tied for 2nd-4th, and Oscar Chajes took 5th place. The final tournament was won by Chajes (who beat Capablanca) and Janowski, ahead of Capablanca, Kostić and Kupchik. Summary, the winner was Capablanca (+12 –1 =4), followed by Janowski 11 points, Chajes 10½ points, Kostić and Kupchik 10 points each.

Tournaments

* Triberg chess tournament (''Triangular''), won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Ilya Rabinovich and Alexey Selezniev, 1915/16. * London (the 26th London championship), won by

Theodor Germann Theodor Germann ( lv, Teodors Germans; 14 August 1879 – 29 January 1935) was a Latvian chess master. He tied for 6-8th at Riga 1899 (the 1st Baltic Chess Congress), took 5th at Riga 1900, took 6th at Dorpat (Tartu) 1901 (the 2nd Baltic-ch), tie ...

and

Edward Guthlac Sergeant Edward Guthlac Sergeant (3 December 1881, Crowland, Lincolnshire – 16 November 1961, Kingston upon Thames) was an English chess master. Sergeant participated many times in the British Chess Championship, the London City championship and the H ...

, 1915/16. * New York City (Rice Memorial), won by José Raúl Capablanca followed by Dawid Janowski, Oscar Chajes, Boris Kostić and Abraham Kupchik, 18 January – 4 February. * New York City (Manhattan Chess Club Championship), won by Kupchik. * Vancouver (the 1st British Columbia Championship), won by John Ewing, finished 25 February. * Warsaw won by

Moishe Lowtzky Moishe (Mojżesz) Lowtzky (Łowcki) (1881–1940) was a Ukrainian–Polish chess master. Biography He was born into a Jewish family in Ukraine. In 1903, Lowtzky tied for 6-7th with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky in Kiev (3rd RUS-ch). The event was won b ...

and Akiba Rubinstein, followed by

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Zdzisław Belsitzmann Zdzisław Belsitzmann (ca. 1890–1920) was a Polish chess master. Belsitzmann lived in Warsaw, where he played several times in tournaments with top Polish chess masters. In 1913, he drew a match against Salomon Langleben (+1 –1 =2). He tied ...

and Alexander Flamberg, March. * Chicago (the 17th Western Chess Association), won by Edward Lasker ahead of Jackson Whipps Showalter, finished 23 August. * Milan (the 1st ''Torneo Nazionale Crespi'') won by Arturo Reggio ahead of G. Cenni and A. Dolci. * Triberg won by I. Rabinovich ahead of E. Bogoljubow and A. Selezniev. * Amsterdam won by

Max Marchand Max Marchand (24 November 1888, Amsterdam – 1957, Baarn) was a Dutch chess master. During World War I, he played only in the neutral Netherlands and Denmark. In 1915, he took second in Amsterdam, won in Scheveningen, and took second in Rotterd ...

ahead of

Adolf Georg Olland Adolf Georg Olland (13 April 1867 – 22 July 1933) was the leading Dutch chess master in the time before Max Euwe. Born in Utrecht, he was a medical doctor. Olland took 3rd at Amsterdam 1887 (Dirk van Foreest won); shared 1st at Amsterdam 1889 ...

. * Copenhagen (the 9th Nordic Chess Championship), won by Paul Johner ahead of

Orla Hermann Krause Orla Hermann Krause (3 November 1867 – 28 September 1935) was a Danish chess master and analyst. He took 2nd, behind Andreas Rosendahl, at Copenhagen 1895, took 2nd at Copenhagen 1899 (the 2nd Nordic Championship, Jorgen Moeller won), took 5 ...

, Otto von Löwenborg and M. Marchand. * Copenhagen (Nordic-ch, B-tournament), won by

Karl Berndtsson Karl Mathias Berndtsson Kullberg (16 March 1892 – 29 September 1943) was a Swedish chess master who was born and died in Göteborg. He won at Copenhagen 1916, and lost a match for the Swedish Chess Championship to Gustaf Nyholm (1½–3½) in 19 ...

ahead of O. Nilsson. *

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won by Gustaf Nyholm ahead of E. Jakobson. * London (the 27th London championship), won by E.G. Sergeant. *

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won by

Julius Brach Julius Brach (9 January 1881, Brno – 4 July 1938, Vyškov, Moravia) was a Czech chess master. In the beginning of his career, he won at Brno 1899, took 3rd at Osyky u Lomnice, took 2nd at Brno 1901, and took 3rd at Brno 1905. He tied for 5-6th ...

ahead of J. Dobiaš. *

won by J. Dobiaš followed by F. Nachtikal, J. Brach and J. Rašovsky. * Běluň won by

Karel Opočenský Karel Opočenský (7 February 1892 – 16 November 1975) was a Czechoslovak chess master. Chess career Opočenský was four-time Czech Champion (1927, 1928, 1938, and 1944). In 1919, he took 2nd, behind František Schubert, in Prague ( Czechoslo ...

ahead of

Jan Schulz Jan Schulz (May 1899 – May 1953) was a Czech chess master. He took 2nd, behind Karel Opočenský, at Belun 1916; won at Prague 1920, tied for 6-8th at Prague 1921 (Karel Hromádka and František Treybal won), tied for 5-7th at Brno 1921 (Hromá ...

. * Budapest (''Quadrangular''), won by Gyula Breyer followed by

Zoltán von Balla Zoltán von Balla (31 August 1883, Budapest – 1 April 1945, Budapest) was a Hungarian chess champion. In 1904, Balla took 11th place in Coburg (14 DSB Congress, B tournament). In 1905, he took 10th place in Vienna. In 1906, he won the first ...

, Richard Réti, Johannes Esser. * Vienna (the 8th Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament) (''Trianglular''), won by Carl Schlechter ahead of Milan Vidmar and

Arthur Kaufmann Arthur Kaufmann (4 April 1872 in Iași, Romania – 25 July 1938 in Vienna) was an Austrian attorney, philosopher and chess master. Life Kaufmann was the second son of a wealthy, Jewish merchant family in Iaşi, Romania. In early childhood, he m ...

, 1916/17. * Łódź won by A. Rubinstein ahead of Gersz Salwe and Teodor Regedziński, 1916/17.

Matches

* Emanuel Lasker beat Siegbert Tarrasch (+5 –0 =1) in Berlin. * Akiba Rubinstein won against

(+2 –0 =1), play-off in Warsaw. *

beat

(+2 –0 =0), play-off in London. *

defeated Savielly Tartakower (+2 –0 =2) in Vienna. * Alexander Alekhine won against Alexander Evensohn (+2 –1 =0) in Kiev. * Siegbert Tarrasch defeated Jacques Mieses (+7 –2 =4) in Berlin; prize was 1/2 pound of butter.

Births

* 7 January - Paul Keres born in Narva, Estonia. EST-ch 1935,42,42,45,53. GM 1950. * 4 February -

Octav Troianescu Octav Troianescu (4 February 1916 — 8 November 1980), was a Romanian chess player, International Master (IM) (1950), five-times Romanian Chess Championship winner (1946, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1968). Biography From the mid-1940s to the end of the ...

born in Romania. ROU-ch 1946,54,56,57. IM 1950. * 6 May -

Povilas Tautvaišas Povilas Tautvaišas ( en, Paul Tautvaisas / Tautvaisis) (6 May 1916 in Mogilev – November 1980 in Chicago) was a Lithuanian-American chess master. Biography He played twice for the Lithuanian team in the Chess Olympiads, at eighth board (+4 � ...

born in Lithuania. * 11 May - Osmo Ilmari Kaila born in Helsinki, Finland; twice FIN-ch 1939, 1954. IM 1952. * 15 May - Vincenzo Castaldi born in Marradi, Italy; seven times ITA-ch. IM 1950. * 20 August -

Paul Felix Schmidt Paul Felix Schmidt ( – 11 August 1984) was an Estonian and German chess player, writer and chemist. Biography In June 1935, Schmidt won, ahead of Paul Keres, at Tallinn. In May 1936, he drew a match against Keres (+3 –3 =1) at Pärnu. ...

born in Narva, Estonia; twice EST-ch 1936, 1937 and GER-ch 1941. IM 1950. * 3 September - Alexander Koblencs born in Riga, Latvia. LAT-ch 1941,45,46,49. IM. * 16 September - Vernon Dilworth born in England. Dilworth variation. * 18 November - Miguel Cuéllar Gacharná born in Colombia; eight times COL-ch, IM 1957.

Deaths

* 5 July -

Friedrich Köhnlein Friedrich Köhnlein (Koehnlein) (12 December 1879 – 5 July 1916) was a German chess master and problemist. He won at Düsseldorf 1908 (the 16th DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier A''). He also took 2nd at Munich 1904 (''Quadrangular'', Rudolf Spielman ...

died in the Battle of Somme, France. * 26 July -

Henry Charlick Henry Charlick (8 July 1845 in London, England – 26 July 1916 in Adelaide, Australia) was a leading Australian chess master in the 1880s. He won the second Australian Chess Championship at Adelaide 1887 with 7½ points out of 9 games, ahead ...

died in Adelaide, Australia, the 1st AUS-ch 1887. * 2 October -

Robert Henry Barnes Robert Henry Barnes (2 October 1849 – January 1916) was a British–German chess player. He played in Germany, at Frankfurt 1884 (4th scoring 7.5/11); at Frankfurt 1887 (5th DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier A'', 1st scoring 8/9, and ''Sieger ...

died in New Zealand. * 27 December - Hugo Süchting died in Valluhn, Germany.

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