Matteo Gladig (1880,

Triest Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...

– 1915,

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) was an Italian

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master. Born in

(then

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), he won at Triest 1905 (''torneo sociale della Società Scacchistica Triestina''), took 2nd, behind

Giovanni Martinolich Giovanni Martinolich (22 June 1884 – 25 July 1910) was a chess master from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was born in Trieste (then Austria-Hungary Empire), the son of Dr Giovanni Martinolich (Padrincich or Padrinzi of Lussinpiccolo), a lawyer ...

, at Triest 1909 (''campionato della SST''), and drew a short match with

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(+1 –1 =2) at Triest 1909. He won, ahead of

Stefano Rosselli del Turco Stefano Rosselli del Turco, Marquis, (27 July 1877 – 18 August 1947) was an Italian chess player, writer and publisher. He was five times Italian champion and represented Italy in the Chess Olympiad seven times. He was a member of the famous Ros ...

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 Rome 1911 (unofficial

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, ''V Torneo dell'Unione Scacchistica Italiana''). During

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, he – as an Austrian citizen of Italian origin – did not want to fight for an Austrian Army on the Italian Front. Finally, he was captured and tried in

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(Ljubljana, then Austria-Hungary) where he died.

References

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