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4th Chess Olympiad
The 4th Chess Olympiad (), organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. and (unofficial) women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 11 and July 26, 1931, in Prague, Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca .... The 3rd Women's World Chess Championship also took place during the Olympiad. Results Team standings : Team results Individual medals For the first time, medals were awarded to the top three individual players on each board. : Notes References4th Chess Olympiad: Prague 1931OlimpBase {{Chess Olympiads 04 Olympiad 04 Chess Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020, 2020 and FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2021, 2021, with a rapid time control that affected players' online ratings. The use of the name "Chess Olympiad" for FIDE's team championship is of historical origin and is not connected to the Olympic Games. Birth of the Olympiad The first Olympiad was unofficial. For the 1924 Summer Olympics, 1924 Olympics an attempt was made to include chess in the Olympic Games but this failed because of problems with distinguishing between amateur and professional players. While the 1924 Summer Olympics was taking place in Paris, the 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad also took place in Paris. FIDE was formed on Sunday, July 20, 1924, the closing day of the 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad. FIDE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Gilg
Karl Gilg (20 January 1901, in Mankovice (Mankendorf), Austrian Silesia – 4 December 1981, in Kolbermoor, Bavaria) was a German chess International Master from Czechoslovakia. Biography Gilg played for Czechoslovakia in several Chess Olympiads.Gilg, Karl team chess record from olimpbase.org * In 1927, at second board in 1st Olympiad in London (+5 −3 =5); * In 1928, at first board in 2nd Olympiad in (+5 −3 =4); * In 1931, at second board in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Helling
Karl Helling (10 August 1904, Luckenwalde, Brandenburg – 15 August 1937, Berlin) was a German chess master. In 1928, he shared 1st with Kurt Richter in the Berlin City Chess Championship, and won a play-off match for the title against him (2 : 0). He also won the Berlin-ch in 1932. Helling represented Germany in the 4th Chess Olympiad at Prague 1931. In other tournaments, he tied for 7-10th at Chemnitz 1925, tied for 5-6th in the Berlin-ch 1927 ( Berthold Koch won), took 5th at Berlin (''BSG'') 1928 (Aron Nimzowitsch won); tied for 2nd-3rd, behind Richter, at Wiesbaden 1928; tied for 5-6th at Leipzig 1928 ( Max Blümich won), took 9th at Berlin (''Kaffee König'') 1928 (Efim Bogoljubow won), tied for 4-7th at Duisburg 1929 ( DSB Congress, Carl Ahues won). Helling won, ahead of Salo Flohr, at Zwickau 1930; won ahead of Ehrhardt Post and Richter, at Berlin 1930; and took 2nd, behind Isaac Kashdan, at Berlin 1930 (''Quadrangular''). In 1931, he lost a short match to Gösta Stol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Richter
Kurt Paul Otto Joseph Richter (24 November 1900 – 29 December 1969) was a German chess International Master (IM) and chess writer. Chess career In 1922, Richter for the first time won the Berlin City Chess Championship. In 1928, he tied for 1st–2nd in Berlin. In 1928, he won in Wiesbaden. In 1930, he tied for 4–5th in Swinemünde. In 1930, he tied for 3rd–5th in Prague. In 1931, he lost a match to Gösta Stoltz (½:1½) in Berlin. In 1931, he took 2nd, behind Ludwig Rellstab, in Berlin. He played for Germany at two official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads: at fourth board (+6–3=3) at Hamburg 1930, fourth board (+7–1=7) at Prague 1931, first board (+8–2=8) at Munich 1936. He won two team bronze medals (1930, 1936) and one individual bronze medal (1931). In 1932, he won in Hamburg. In 1932, he tied for 1st–2nd in Kiel. In 1932, he took 3rd in Berlin. In 1932, he took 4th in Swinemünde. In 1932/33, he tied for 1st–2nd in Berlin. In 1933, he took 2nd, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Wagner
Heinrich Wagner (9 August 1888, Hamburg – 24 June 1959, Hamburg) was a German chess master. In 1920/21, he won in Kiel. In 1921, he took 8th in Hamburg (the 21st DSB Congress, Erhardt Post won), and won in Hamburg (''Quadrangular''). In 1922 he tied for 3rd-5th in Oeynhausen (the 22nd DSB–Congress, Post won). In 1923 he tied for 2nd-3rd in Frankfurt (the 23rd DSB–Congress, Ernst Grünfeld won). In 1924, he won ahead of Albert Becker and Carl Carls, in Bremen. In 1925 he tied for 3rd-4th in Breslau (the 24th DSB–Congress, Efim Bogoljubow won). He shared with Karl Gilg 1st place at Vienna 1926 (DSV Kongress), tied for 3rd-4th at Bremen 1927, won at Hamburg 1928 (''Quadrangular''), took 2nd behind Herbert Heinicke at Hamburg 1929, shared 4th at Duisburg (the 26th DSB Congress, Carl Ahues), and tied for 6-7th in Swinemünde (Friedrich Sämisch won). In 1932, he took 4th in Hamburg (Kurt Richter won). He lost a match to Albert Becker (3 : 5) at Hamburg 1924, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Ahues
Carl Oscar Ahues (26 December 1883, Bremen – 31 December 1968, Hamburg) was a German chess International Master. Chess career He was Berlin champion in 1910 and shared 3rd place at the strong Berlin tournament of 1926 (Efim Bogoljubow won). He was German Champion in 1929 winning the 26th DSB Congress in Duisburg. In 1930, he took 6th in San Remo (Alexander Alekhine won), tied for 4–5th in Scarborough ( Edgar Colle won), and tied for 3–5th in Liège (Savielly Tartakower won). In 1931, he tied for 2nd-4th in Berlin (Herman Steiner won), and tied for 4–6th in Swinemünde (27th DSB Congress; Efim Bogoljubow and Ludwig Roedl won). Ahues represented Germany thrice in Chess Olympiads. * In 1930, at first board in 3rd Chess Olympiad in Hamburg (+4 –3 =7), team bronze; * In 1931, at second board in 4th Chess Olympiad in Prague (+3 –2 =8); * In 1936, at second board in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad in Munich (+4 –1 =12), team bronze. In 1933, he took 10th in Bad Pyrm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow, also known as Efim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow (April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952), was a Russian-born German Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. Early career Bogoljubow learned how to play chess at 15 years old, and developed a serious interest at the age of 18. His father was a priest. Originally he wanted to become a priest too, and studied theology in Kiev, but he decided otherwise and enrolled in the Polytechnical Institute to study agriculture.Efim Bogoljubov Chess Federation of Russia He did not finish his studies and instead focused on chess. In 1911, Bogoljubow tied for first place in the Kiev championships, and finished 9–10th in the Saint Petersburg (All-Russian Amateur) Tournament, won by Stepan Levitsky. In 1912, he took second place, behind Karel Hromádka, in Vilna ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imre König
Imre König (Koenig) aka Mirko Kenig (February 9, 1901, Kula – September 9, 1992, Santa Monica, California) was a chess master representing Yugoslavia and Great Britain. He was born in Kula, and also lived in Austria, England and the USA during the troubled times between the two world wars. In 1921, he took 2nd in Celje. In 1920s König played in several tournaments in Vienna; he was 3rd in 1921, 14th in 1922 (Akiba Rubinstein won), 3rd-4th in 1925, 4-5th in 1926 (Rudolf Spielmann won), and 3rd-5th in 1926. He took 12th in Rogaška Slatina (Rohitsch-Sauerbrunn) in 1929. The event was won by Rubinstein. In 1929/30, he took 7th in Vienna ( Hans Kmoch and Spielmann won). In 1931, he took 4th in Vienna ( Albert Becker won). In 1936, he tied for 6-7th in Novi Sad (Vasja Pirc won). In 1937, he tied for 2nd-4th in Belgrade (Vasilije Tomović won). Mirko Kenig represented Yugoslavia in the 4th Chess Olympiad at Prague 1931 (+5 –1 =2), the 6th Chess Olympiad at Warsaw 1935 (+5 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasja Pirc
Vasja Pirc ( ; ) (December 19, 1907 – June 2, 1980) was a Yugoslav chess player. He is best known in competitive chess circles as a strong exponent of the hypermodern defense now generally known as the Pirc Defence. Pirc was champion of Yugoslavia five times: 1935, 1936, 1937, 1951, and 1953. He was awarded the International Master title in 1950, and the Grandmaster title in 1953. He was made an International Arbiter in 1973. Pirc was born in Idrija in 1907, then a part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He died in Ljubljana in 1980. Sample game Although Pirc had a minus record against Alexander Alekhine, he beat Alekhine with the black pieces in a blitz game in Ljubljana in 1930: 1.d4 e6 (Queen's Pawn Game, Horwitz Defense) 2.c4 (usually transposes to openings such as Queen's Gambit Declined The Queen's Gambit Declined (or QGD) is a chess opening in which Black declines a pawn offered by White in the Queen's Gambit: :1. d4 d5 :2. c4 e6 This is known as the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borislav Kostić
Borislav or Boryslav (Cyrillic script: Борислав) is a Slavic male given name. People who have this name include: *Borislav Cvetković, Croatian-born Serbian football manager and former player *Borislav Ivanov, Bulgarian chess player *Borislav Ivkov, Serbian chess Grandmaster *Borislav Mihaylov, Bulgarian former football goalkeeper *Borislav Milanov, Bulgarian composer, songwriter and record producer *Borislav Stanković, Serbian former basketball player and coach *Borislav Tomoski, Macedonian international football player *Borislav Slavov Borislav Slavov (born 1973) is a Bulgarian composer. He has composed for a number of video games, including for Crytek's ''Crysis'' series and Larian Studios' '' Divinity: Original Sin II'' and ''Baldur's Gate 3''. Early life Slavov was born i ..., award-winning Bulgarian video game composer See also * {{Given name, Borislav Slavic masculine given names Serbian masculine given names Bulgarian masculine given names Polish m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lajos Asztalos
Lajos Asztalos (; 29 July 1889 – 1 November 1956) was a Hungarian- Yugoslavian chess International Master, professor, and teacher of languages. At the beginning of his career, he tied for sixth-eighth at the 1911 Hungarian Chess Championship; tied for 7–8th at Breslau 1912 (18th DSB–Congress, B tourn); took second, behind Gyula Breyer at the1912 Hungarian Championship; won at the 1913 Hungarian Championship; tied for 8–9th at Budapest 1913, took fifth at Mannheim 1914 (''Hauptturnier A''); took 4th at Vienna 1917 (Quadrangular), and took 5th at Kaschau 1918. After World War I, he moved to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as Yugoslavia). In 1923, he tied for sixth-seventh in Trieste. In 1924, he took third at the Hungarian Championship. In 1925, he took 5th in Budapest, and tied for 13–14th in Debrecen. In 1926, he took third, behind Hermanis Matisons and Savielly Tartakower, in Bardejov. In 1927 he took 4th in Kecskemét. In 1931, he took 13th i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Vidmar
Milan Vidmar (; 22 June 1885 – 9 October 1962) was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE. Vidmar was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current. Early life, family, and education He was born in a middle-class family in Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia). He began to study mechanical engineering in 1902, and he graduated in 1907 from the University of Vienna. He got his doctor's degree in 1911 from the Technical faculty in Vienna. The study of electrical engineering at the Technical faculty did not begin until 1904, so Vidmar had to take special examinations in the field basics. Between 1912 and 1913 he worked at the famous Ganz Works in Budapest as the assistant of Ottó Titusz Bláthy, one of the inventors and foremost experts on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
