Giovanni Martinolich (22 June 1884 – 25 July 1910) was a

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master from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was born in

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(then

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), the son of Dr Giovanni Martinolich (Padrincich or Padrinzi of Lussinpiccolo), a lawyer, Sec. of the Austrian Association of Maritime law and legal advisor to the British and US Consulates and Anna Gerolimich of Lussinpiccolo a ship owner. He studied in

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. In 1905/06, he took 4th, behind Leopold Löwy, Jr,

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and

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, in ''campionato di Vienna''. He won, ahead of

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and

Arturo Reggio Arturo Reggio (9 January 1863 – 17 July 1917) was an Italian chess player. Born in Gorizia, then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he started playing chess as an engineering student at the Graz University of Technology and at the Imperial-Royal Pol ...

, at Milan 1906 (unofficial

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, ''IV torneo dell'Unione Scacchistica Italiana''), took 9th at Vienna 1907 (the 1st Trebitsch Memorial,

Jacques Mieses Jacques Mieses (born Jacob Mieses; 27 February 1865 – 23 February 1954) was a German-born British chess player. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. He became a naturalized British ci ...

won),Le partecipazioni degli italiani ai grandi tornei internazionali
/ref> and won, ahead of Matteo Gladig, at Triest 1909 (''campionato della Società Scacchistica Triestina''). In 1910, he published an article ''Il Fegatello nell'apertura Spagnola'' in the ''Rivista Scacchistica Italiana''. He died suddenly at the age of 26, of heart related causes.

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