1915 in chess

none 1915 chess sports Events in chess in 1915: Chess events in brief Marshall Chess Divan started by Frank Marshall. Forerunner to Marshall Chess Club. Tournaments Triberg chess tournament won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Ilya Rabinovich and Peter Romanovsky, 1914/15 New York (Metropolitan Chess League), won by Edward Lasker, January Vienna (Quadrangular), won by Józef Dominik, March 25th London City championship (London, England), won by Sir George Thomas, March New York won by José Raúl Capablanca followed by Frank Marshall, Oscar Chajes and Abraham Kupchik, Jacob Bernstein and Ed Lasker, 19 April – 7 May 16th U.S. Open Chess Championship (Excelsior, Minnesota), won by Jackson Showalter ahead of Norman T. Whitaker, finished 21 August Utica won by Charles Jaffe Triberg won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Ilya Rabinovich and Alexander Flamberg Triberg won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Alexey Selezniev and Ilya Rabinovich Triberg won by Efim Bogoljubow of Ilya Rabinovich and Alexey Selezniev Moscow won by Nikolai Zubarev ahead of Peter Yurdansky St. Petersburg won by Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky and Golubev 6th Danish Chess Championship (Horsens, Denmark), won by Johannes Giersing Amsterdam won by G. J. van Gelder Rotterdam won by G. J. van Gelder Scheveningen won by Max Marchand Hastings won by Reginald Pryce Michell 7th Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament (Vienna, Austria), won by Carl Schlechter followed by Richard Réti, Arthur Kaufmann, Georg Marco, František Schubert, and Ignatz von Popiel Moscow won by Alexander Alekhine ahead of Vladimir Nenarokov and Peter Yurdansky, December 26th London championship (London, England), won by Theodor Germann and Edward Guthlac Sergeant, 1915/16 Triberg (Triangular), won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Ilya Rabinovich and Alexey Selezniev, 1915/16 Matches 17–20 May - Addey Dixon beat H. Thomas (+3 –1 =0) in Belfast. 24 May - John O'Hanlon beat Addey Dixon (+3 –0 =0) in Portadown. Gyula Breyer won against Jan F. Esser (+2 –1 =1) in Budapest. Jacques Mieses defeated Siegbert Tarrasch (+1 –0 =1) in Berlin. Edward Guthlac Sergeant beat Theodor Germann (play-off) (+2 –0 =0) in London, 1915/16.http://www.thechesslibrary.com/files/ShortMatchesOf20thCentury.htm Short Matches of the 20th Century 2008-06-25 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20081007030836/http://www.thechesslibrary.com/files/ShortMatchesOf20thCentury.htm 2008-10-07 Births 21 February - René Letelier in San Bernardo. Chilean ch. 1957, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1973, IM 1960. 3 March - Kazimierz Plater born in Vilna. Polish ch. 1949, 1956, 1957. IM 1950. 20 April - Maximilian Ujtelky born in Hungary/Slovakia. Slovak IM 1961. 20 May - Erik Jakob Larsson born in Landskrona, Sweden. 14 June - Nicolaas Cortlever, born in Amsterdam. Dutch IM 1950. 30 August - Hermann Albrecht, born in Marburg, Germany. IJComp 1957. 31 August - David Vincent Hooper, born in Reigate, England. British cr ch 1944. 27 November - Shlomo Smiltiner, Israeli master. Edward Gerstenfeld born in Lviv. Polish-Ukrainian master. David Polland born in USA ? U.S. Open ch 1937 and NYS ch 1937. Deaths Thomas Bright Wilson died of cholera. Secretary of the Manchester Chess Club, England. He invented the first mechanical chess clock in 1883. Mattia Cavallotti died in Milan. Cavallotti Countergambit. Matteo Gladig died in Ljubljana. Italian master. 19 March - Eugene Cook, died in Hoboken, NJ. 1st American composer of note. 2 November - Isaac Rice, American inventor and chess patron, died in USA. Rice Gambit. References Category:20th century in chess Category:Chess by year