Bohor Hallegua was a Turkish

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 disti ...

master. In 1914, he played in three tournaments in pre-war Europe. He took 4th, behind

Frank James Marshall Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century. Chess career Marshall was born in New York Cit ...

Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine, ''Aleksándr Aleksándrovich Alékhin''; (March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already a ...

and

André Muffang André Muffang (25 July 1897, St. Brieuc – March 1, 1989, Paris) was a French chess master. Before World War I, he took 3rd, behind Alexander Alekhine and Frank Marshall, at Paris 1914 (''Quadrangular''); took 5th at Lyon 1914 (2nd French Amate ...

, in the Quadrangular tournament of the Café Continental in Paris on July 12–14, and took 2nd, in a tournament in the

Café de la Régence The Café de la Régence in Paris was an important European centre of chess in the 18th and 19th centuries. All important chess masters of the time played there. The Café's masters included, but are not limited to: * Paul Morphy * François- ...

in Paris. Hallegua won (leading), ahead of

Ilya Rabinovich Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich (russian: Илья Леонтьевич Рабинович; 11 May 1891 – 23 April 1942) was a Russian and later Soviet chess player, among the best ones in his country for three decades, from 1910 to 1940. His best ...

and

Oscar Tenner Oscar Tenner (sometimes ''Oskar'') ( he, אוסקר טנר; 5 April 1880, in Lemberg – 24 December 1948) was a Galicia (Poland)-born German–American chess master. At the beginning of his career, he played in several tournaments in Germany. He w ...

, ''Hauptturnier A'' in Mannheim tournament (interrupted the 19th

DSB Congress The ''Deutscher Schachbund'' (DSB) was founded in Leipzig on 18 July, 1877. When the next meeting took place in the Schützenhaus on 15 July 1879, sixty-two clubs had become member of the chess federation. Hofrat Rudolf von Gottschall became Chair ...

, July/August 1914).Schach Nachrichten
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References

External links

B. Hallegua at 365Chess.com
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