1914 in chess

Events in chess in 1914:

Chess events in brief

• Nicholas II of Russia, who had partially funded the tournament, awarded the Grandmaster title to the five finalists.^[1]

• Weinstein) were interned in Rastatt, Germany. On 14, 17 and 29 September 1914, four of them (Alekhine, Bogatyrchuk, Saburov, and Koppelman) were freed and allowed to return home via Switzerland.^[3] A fifth player, Romanovsky was freed and went back to Petrograd in 1915,^[4] and a sixth one, Flamberg was allowed to return to Warsaw in 1916.^[5]

• St. Petersburg (the 8th All-Russian Masters' Tournament), won by Alexander Alekhine and Aron Nimzowitsch, followed by Alexander Flamberg, Moishe Lowtzky, Grigory Levenfish, etc. December 1913 – January 1914.^[6]
• New York (Manhattan CC), won by Abraham Kupchik, January.
• Peter Romanovsky and Sergey von Freymann
  .
• Fedor Bogatyrchuk
  .
• Kraków won by Flamberg ahead of Józef Dominik, March.
• Frank James Marshall
  , 21 April – 22 May.
• Baden bei Wien (Gambit Tournament), won by Rudolf Spielmann followed by Savielly Tartakower, Carl Schlechter, Gyula Breyer, etc.
• Berlin (Quadrangular), won by Erich Cohn and Spielmann.
• Vienna (Quadrangular), won by Siegfried Reginald Wolf and Ernst Grünfeld.
• Geneva won by Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky.
• Paris (Quadrangular), won by Marshall and Alekhine, 12–14 June.
• Lyon won by Alphonse Goetz ahead of Frédéric Lazard and A. Téléguine, finished on 31 July.
• Mannheim (the 19th DSB Congress), won by Alekhine ahead of Milan Vidmar, 20 July – 1 August.
• Frederick Yates and Joseph Henry Blackburne
  . Yates won the playoff on forfeit, finished on 21 August.
• Western Chess Association Championship
  ), won by Jefferson and Wolbrecht, finished 26 August.
• Baden-Baden won by Flamberg, followed by Bogoljubow, Ilya Rabinovich, etc.
• Peter Romanovsky
  , etc. 1914/1915.
• Vienna won by Grünfeld ahead of Kalikst Morawski, 1914/1915.
• Trebitsch Memorial), won by Schlechter ahead of Arthur Kaufmann, 1914/15.^[7]

• Alexander Alekhine drew with Aron Nimzowitsch (play-off) 1 : 1 (+1 –1 =0), St. Petersburg, January.^[8]
• Emanuel Lasker drew with Ossip Bernstein (exhibition) 1 : 1 (+1 –1 =0), Moscow, February.
• José Raúl Capablanca won against Ossip Bernstein (exhibition) 1.5 : 0.5 (+1 –0 =1), Moscow, 4–5 February.
• José Raúl Capablanca won against Savielly Tartakower (exhibition) 1.5 : 0.5 (+1 –0 =1), Vienna, 13–14 March.
• José Raúl Capablanca beat Arnold Aurbach (exhibition) 2 : 0 (+2 –0 =0), Paris, 20–24 March.
• Peter Romanovsky beat Sergey von Freymann
  (play-off) 2 : 0 (+2 –0 =0), St. Petersburg.
• Richard Réti defeated Walter John 2 : 1 (+1 –0 =2), Breslau.
• Paul Saladin Leonhardt drew with Hans Fahrni 1 : 1 (+1 –1 =0), Munich.
• Paul Saladin Leonhardt won against J. Szekely 2.5 : 1.5 (+2 –1 =1), Munich.
• George Alan Thomas
  3 : 1 (+2 –0 =2), London.
• Richard Teichmann won against Frank Marshall 1.5 : 0.5 (+1 –0 =1), Berlin.
• Richard Teichmann beat Rudolf Spielmann 5 : 1 (+5 –1 =0), Leipzig.^[9]
• José Raúl Capablanca defeated Emanuel Lasker 6.5 : 3.5 (blitz, 5 seconds per move), Café Kerkau in Berlin, July 1914.^[10]

Births

• 8 January – Hermann Pilnik in Stuttgart, Germany. Argentine GM.
• 21 February – Arnold Denker in New York City. American GM.
• 6 March – Theo van Scheltinga in Amsterdam. Dutch IM.
• 8 March – Oleg Neikirch in Tbilisi, Georgia. Bulgarian IM.
• 7 October – Alexander Tsvetkov in Topolovgrad, Bulgaria.
• 11 October – Reuben Fine in New York City. American GM.
• 20 October – Mona May Karff in Bessarabia. Women's US Champion.
• 26 October – Adriaan de Groot in Santpoort, the Netherlands.
• 26 December – Albert Simonson in New York City. American IM.
• 1914 – Abram Khavin in Ukraine.

Deaths

• 23 April – Nicolai Jasnogrodsky, American master, died in Baltimore.
• December – Constant Ferdinand Burille, American master, died in Boston.

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