Karl (Carl) Wilhelm Rosenkrantz (russian: Карл Вильямович Розенкранц, ''Karl Vilyamovich Rosenkrantz''; 13 June 1876 – 1942) was a Russian and Soviet chess master.

Chess career

Rosenkrantz was born in Libava (now Liepāja,

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), then in the

Courland Governorate The Courland Governorate, also known as the Province of Courland, Governorate of Kurland (german: Kurländisches Gouvernement; russian: Курля́ндская губерния, translit=Kurljándskaja gubernija; lv, Kurzemes guberņa; lt, K ...

of the Russian Empire. He shared 1st with Robert Behting (Roberts Betinš), followed by Kārlis Bētiņš, etc., at

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1899 (the 1st 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 All-Russian Masters' Tournament, Mikhail Chigorin won), shared 1st with K. Behting,

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 K ...

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 Znosko-Borovsky won) and 9-11th (Chigorin won) in 1904, took 2nd, 3rd and 4th in 1905, tied for 8-10th in 1905/06 (the 4th RUS-ch, Gersz Salwe won), shared 1st with Sergey von Freymann in 1908, tied for 7-8th in 1909 ( Alexander Alekhine won), and took 14th in 1911 ( Stepan Levitsky won). Rosenkrantz lived in Moscow following the First World War and

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and participated in several Moscow tournaments. He took 5th in 1921 ( Moscow City Chess Championship, Nikolai Grigoriev won), took 5th in 1924 (

Nikolai Zubarev Nikolai Zubarev (10 January 1894 – January 1951) was a Russian chess player. He won the championship of Moscow twice. Chess career During World War I, Zubarev won ahead of Peter Yurdansky at Moscow 1915, and tied for 4-5th places the next yea ...

won), took 14th in 1925 (Moscow-ch, Aleksandr Sergeyev won), tied for 8-9th in 1926 (Moscow-ch, Abram Rabinovich won), and shared 6th in 1928 (Trade Unions-ch, Grigoriev won).Russian Chess Base
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