The below is a list of events in chess in 1943.

Chess events in brief

* 9 March 1943 – Robert James Fischer born at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, USA. His mother, Regina Wender, was a naturalized American citizen of Polish Jewish descent, born in Switzerland but raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Fischer's birth certificate listed Wender's husband, Hans-Gerhardt Fischer, a German biophysicist, as Fischer's father. The couple married in 1933 in Moscow, the Soviet Union, where Wender was studying medicine. Regina Fischer returned to the United States in 1939, while Hans-Gerhardt Fischer never entered the United States. Paul Neményi, a Hungarian Jewish physicist, may have been Fischer's biological father. Regina and Nemenyi had an affair in 1942, and he made monthly child support payments to Regina. Later, Bobby Fischer was World Chess Champion (1972–1975).

Tournaments

* Kuibyshev won by Alexander Konstantinopolsky, February 1943. *

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won by Miguel Najdorf followed by Gideon Ståhlberg, Paul Michel, Héctor Rossetto, Hermann Pilnik, etc., 17–31 March 1943. * Prague won by Alexander Alekhine ahead of Paul Keres, 4–29 April 1943. * Sverdlovsk won by

Mikhail Botvinnik Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, ( – May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an electrical engineer and computer scientist and was a pioneer in computer chess. Botvinnik ...

followed by Vladimir Makogonov, Vasily Smyslov and Ilya Kan, etc., 20 April – 16 May 1943. * Rio de Janeiro won by Erich Eliskases ahead of Octávio Trompowsky, Walter Cruz, etc., 17 May – 9 June 1943. *

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(the

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), won by

Arturo Liebstein Arturo Liebstein, sometimes listed as Isaac Liebstein, was a Uruguayan chess master. He won thrice in the Uruguayan Chess Championship in 1940, 1942, and 1943. He tied for 9–11th at Montevideo 1941, took 13th in the Mar del Plata chess tournam ...

. * Buenos Aires (the Argentine Chess Championship), won by Stahlberg ahead of Juan Iliesco. *

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won by Najdorf ahead of Moshe Czerniak. * Lviv won by

Stepan Popel Stepan (Stefan, Stephan, Stephen) Popel (Popiel) (born 15 August 1909, Komarniki, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) – died 27 December 1987, Fargo, North Dakota, USA) was a multiple chess champion of Lviv, Paris and eventually, of th ...

and Myroslav Turiansky. * Diósgyőr (the Hungarian Chess Championship), won by Gedeon Barcza ahead of

Géza Füster Géza Füster (February 19, 1910 – December 30, 1990) was a Hungarian-Canadian chess master. A winner of the Hungarian championship, he later represented Canada at Chess Olympiads and at an interzonal tournament for the world chess champions ...

, and

Lajos Asztalos Lajos Asztalos (Ljudevit Astaloš) (29 July 1889, Pécs – 1 November 1956, Budapest) was a Hungarian chess International Master, professor, and teacher of languages. At the beginning of his career, he tied for sixth-eighth at Budapest 1911 ...

. * Kolozsvár won by Füster. * Prague (the Bohemia and Moravia Chess Championship) won by František Zíta. * Salzburg won by Paul Keres and Alekhine, followed by

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. ...

, Efim Bogoljubow, Jan Foltys, and Ludwig Rellstab, 9–19 June 1943. * Zlín won by

Čeněk Kottnauer Čeněk Kottnauer (24 February 1910, Prague – 14 February 1996, London) was a Czech British chess master, earning the title of International Master. At the beginning of his career, he tied for 11-12th at Prague 1933 (''Kautsky Memorial'', Karel ...

followed by Foltys, Luděk Pachman, Zíta, Jaroslav Šajtar, etc. * Florence (the 10th Italian Chess Championship), won by Vincenzo Nestler ahead of Mario Napolitano. *

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won by Salo Flohr ahead of Vladimir Makogonov, June – July 1943. * Sofia (the Bulgarian Chess Championship), won by

Oleg Neikirch Oleg Nikolaev Neikirch (Neikirh, Nejkirch, Neykirch) ( bg, Олег Николаев Нейкирх) (8 March 1914, Tbilisi, Georgia - 26 August 1985, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian chess master. He won seven times Bulgarian Chess Championship ( ...

ahead of

Alexander Tsvetkov Alexander (Alexandar) Kristov Tsvetkov (Cwetkow) ( bg, Александър Христов Цветков) (7 October 1914 in Topolovgrad, Bulgaria – 29 May 1990) was a Bulgarian chess master. In April 1936, he won a game against Alexander A ...

, 11–25 July 1943. * Tallinn won by Keres, 20–28 July 1943. * Malmö (the Swedish Chess Championship), won by Bengt Ekenberg ahead of

Erik Lundin Erik Ruben Lundin (2 July 1904 – 5 December 1988) was a Swedish chess master. In 1928, he won in Oslo, took 5th in Helsingborg, tied for 2nd-3rd in Stockholm (''Quadrangular'', Richard Réti won). In 1929, he took 2nd in Göteborg (Nordic Che ...

and Olof Kinnmark. *

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won by

Stig Lundholm Stig Gustav Lundholm (14 November 1917 – 19 May 2009) was a Swedish chess master. Lundholm was born in Luleå, Sweden. He won at Stockholm 1942, tied with Folke Ekström, ahead of both Gösta Stoltz and Erik Lundin, took second place behind E ...

and Gösta Stoltz. * Dalhousie (the Canadian Chess Championship), won by Daniel Yanofsky. *

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George Shainswit George Shainswit (January 3, 1918 – September 5, 1997) was a leading American chess player. He played various tournaments including five U.S. Chess Championships. Biography George Shainswit was born in New York City, United States on January ...

. *

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(the 44th U.S. Open), won by

Israel Albert Horowitz Israel Albert Horowitz (often known as I. A. Horowitz or Al Horowitz) (November 15, 1907 – January 18, 1973) was an American International Master of chess. He is most remembered today for the books he wrote about chess. In 1989 he was induc ...

ahead of Santasiere, August 1943. * Vienna (the 10th German Chess Championship), won by Josef Lokvenc followed by Schmidt, Hans Zollner, Hans Müller, Rellstab, Karl Gilg and Georg Kieninger, etc., start 15 August 1943. * Kuibyshev won by Isaac Boleslavsky ahead of Konstantinopolsky, August – September 1943. * Rio de Janeiro (''Quadrangular''), won by Eliskases, September 1943. * Madrid won by Keres ahead of Fuentes, Alfred Brinckmann, 4–21 October 1943. * Krynica (the 4th GG-ch) won by Lokvenc, 25 November – 5 December 1943. * Vienna won by

Ernst Grünfeld ---- Ernst Franz Grünfeld (November 21, 1893 – April 3, 1962) was an Austrian chess player and writer, mainly on opening theory. He was among the inaugural recipients of the grandmaster title in 1950. Life and career Grünfeld was bor ...

ahead of Müller, start 27 November 1943. *

won by

Folke Ekström Nils Johan Folke Ekström (12 October 1906, in Lund – 25 January 2000, in Saltsjobaden) was a Swedish International Master (IM) of chess and of correspondence chess (IMC). He won the Swedish Championships in 1947 and 1948; Swedish Correspondenc ...

ahead of Lundholm, 27 December 1943 – 4 January 1944. * Moscow ( Championship of the City), won by Botvinnik ahead of Smyslov, December 1943 – January 1944.

Matches

* Alexander Alekhine drew with Efim Bogoljubow (1 : 1) in Warsaw,

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, start 27 March 1943.

Team matches

* 25–26 April, Zagreb: Croatia vs. Bulgaria 8-8 (4½-3½, 3½-4½) (Tekavčić ½0 Tsvetkov; Šubarić 00 Neikirch; Jerman ½1 Popov; Filipčić 10 Malchev; Jonke ½1 Karastoichev; Petek 1½ Kiprov; Kindij 01 Dimitrov; Licul 10 Kantardzhiev) *22–25 May, Russe/Gorgevo: Bulgaria vs. Romania ''result unknown'' OlimpBase :: Friendly matches
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Births

* 9 March – Bobby Fischer in Chicago, American GM and World Champion 1972–1975 * 22 March –

Luben Spasov Luben Spasov ( bg, Любен Спасов; born 23 March 1943) is Bulgarian chess Grandmaster (GM) (1976), World Senior Chess Championship winner (2005), Bulgarian Chess Championship medalist (1965, 1973), European Team Chess Championships ind ...

, Bulgarian GM * 31 March – Bernard Zuckerman in Brooklyn, American IM * 10 April –

Włodzimierz Schmidt Włodzimierz Schmidt (born 10 April 1943) is a Polish chess grandmaster. He played for Poland 14 times in Chess Olympiads between 1962 and 1994. He was Polish Champion seven times: in 1971, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1988, 1990 and 1994. In tournamen ...

in Poznań, Polish GM, seven time Polish Champion * 13 April – Tim Krabbé, Dutch chess player and writer * 14 April –

Ivan Nemet Ivan Nemet (14 April 1943 – 16 December 2007) was a Serbian-born Croat-Swiss chess grandmaster. He was Croatian Chess Champion in 197 Yugoslav Chess Champion in 1979 and Swiss Chess Champion in 1990. Biography Nemet was born in Sombor, Yu ...

, Swiss GM * 18 May –

Gennadi Sosonko Gennadi "Genna" Sosonko (russian: Геннадий Борисович Сосонко, ''Gennady Borisovich Sosonk''o; born 18 May 1943) is a Soviet-born Dutch chess player and writer. He has been awarded the title Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE and is ...

in Troitsk, Dutch GM * 4 July – Orestes Rodriguez Vargas, Spanish GM * 6 August –

Helmut Pfleger Helmut Pfleger (born August 6, 1943) is a German chess grandmaster and author. He was one of the most promising chess players in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1977 until 2005, Pfleger hosted a series of chess programs on German public TV, including ...

, German GM * 9 August – Lubomir Kavalek in Prague, Czech/American GM * 23 September – Mark Tseitlin in Leningrad, Israeli GM * 22 October –

Ricardo Calvo Ricardo Calvo Mínguez (October 22, 1943 – September 26, 2002) was a Spanish chess player, doctor, author, reporter, and chess historian, who was awarded the title of International Master in 1973 and played for Spain at the Chess Olympiads o ...

, Spanish chess player and historian * 21 November –

Peter Lee Peter Lee may refer to: *Peter Lee (bishop of Christ the King) (born 1947), England-born Anglican bishop, working in South Africa *Peter Lee (bishop of Virginia) (born 1938), American bishop of the Episcopal Church *Peter Lee (chess player) (born 19 ...

, 1965 British Champion

Deaths

* Henryk Pogorieły murdered by the Nazis in the Pawiak prison, Warsaw, the

. * Abram Rabinovich died of starvation in Moscow, Russia. * Alexander Romanovsky died in Russia. *

Vasily Osipovich Smyslov Vasily Osipovich Smyslov (1881–1943) was a chess master, and the father of Vasily Vasilievich Smyslov, World Chess Champion from 1957–58. Born in Astrakhan, in the Volga Delta, he studied at the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology ...

died in Russia. * Edward Gerstenfeld died in Russia. * Emmanuel Sapira died in Belgium. * Gunnar Friedemann died in Estonia. * Mirko Bröder died in Serbia. * 9 February –

Gunnar Gundersen Gunnar Gundersen may refer to: *Gunnar Gundersen (politician) (born 1956), Norwegian politician and Olympic swimmer * Gunnar S. Gundersen (1921–1983), Norwegian modernist painter. *Gunnar Gundersen (chess player) (1882–1943), Australian chess ...

, Australian master, died in Melbourne. * 16 February –

Abram Szpiro Abram (Abraham) Szpiro (1912 in Stringenau, Russian Empire – 16 February 1943, in Auschwitz) was a Polish chess master. Born in Russian Empire (now Poland), he moved with his family to Łódź. He tied for 7-8th (1930), shared 4th (1931), and ...

, Polish master, murdered in

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. * 17 February – Léon Monosson, French master, murdered in Auschwitz. * 28 March – Kārlis Bētiņš, died in Riga, Latvia. Behting variation. * 13 May –

Adrián García Conde Adrián García Conde (4 May 1886 – 13 May 1943) was a Mexican-British chess master. Born in Valladolid, Yucatán, Mexico, since age 4 he lived in Liverpool, Bradford, London, Hull, and then in London again. He won the Liverpool Chess Club ...

died in London, England. * 16 August –

Stasch Mlotkowski Stasch Mlotkowski (Staś Młotkowski) (10 March 1881, Clifton Heights, New Jersey – 16 August 1943, Gloucester City, New Jersey) was an American chess master. He was born into a Polish family in America. His first name, Stasch (Polish Staś), i ...

died in Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA. * 26 August –

Vladimirs Petrovs Vladimirs Petrovs (russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Петро́в, translit=Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov; 27 September 1907 – 26 August 1943) was a Latvian Russian chess player. He was born in Riga, in the Governorate of Li ...

died as a political prisoner in a Soviet labor camp in Kotlas, Russia. * 29 September –

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 ...

died in Sweden. * 17 October – Jan Kotrč died in Vlachovo Březí, Bohemia. * 15 November –

Salo Landau Salo (Salomon) Landau (1 April 1903, Bochnia, Galicia, Austria-Hungary – March 1944,Westerbork Cartotheek NIOD Amsterdam Grodziszcze, Świdnica County, Poland) was a Dutch chess player, who died in a Nazi concentration camp. Biography Early ...

murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in Gräditz, Silesia (then Germany, now Poland). * December –

Heinrich Wolf Heinrich Wolf (20 October 1875 – December 1943) was an Austrian journalist and chess master. Biography In 1897, he tied for 5-7th in Berlin (Géza Maróczy won). In 1900 he tied for 7-10th in Munich (the 12th DSB Congress, Maroczy, Carl S ...

, Austrian master, murdered by the Nazis. * December – Isaak Mazel, Belarusian master, died in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

References

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