1917 in chess

Events in chess in 1917:

Chess events in brief

• Seventh
  Samuil Weinstein
  . After the war, a Ukrainian master Bogoljubow remained in Triberg, where he married a local woman and spent the rest of his life in Germany, settling permanently in 1926.

Tournaments

• Vienna (the 8th Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament) (Triangular), won by Carl Schlechter ahead of Milan Vidmar and Arthur Kaufmann, 1916/17.
• Łódź won by Akiba Rubinstein ahead of Gersz Salwe and Teodor Regedziński, 1916/17.
• Łódź (Quadrangular), won by G. Salwe, 1916/17.
• Brno won by Julius Brach.
• Johannes Esser
  .
• Warsaw won by A. Rubinstein ahead of Moishe Lowtzky, Zdzisław Belsitzmann and Alexander Flamberg.
• Triberg (Quadrangular) won by Ilya Rabinovich and Alexey Selezniev
  .
• Berlin won by Walter John and Paul Johner.
• Paris won by Arnold Aurbach ahead of Adolphe Silbert.
• The Hague won by Jan Willem te Kolsté and Gerard Oskam.
• George Salto Fontein and G. Oskam ahead of Max Marchand and Rudolf Loman
  .
• Utrecht
  won by H. van Hartingsvelt and H.S. van Linschoten.
• New York City (Manhattan Chess Club Championship), won by Abraham Kupchik.
• Rochester (New York State Championship) won by Oscar Chajes ahead of H.M. Philips.
• Jackson Whipps Showalter
  and W. Winter, finished 25 August.
• Havana (Triangular), won by C.S. Howell ahead of Juan Corzo.
• Buenos Aires won by Rolando Illa and C.M. Portela.
• Christiania (the 10th Nordic Chess Championship), won by Gustaf Nyholm ahead of Karl Berndtsson.
• Stockholm (Swedish Chess Championship) won by Otto von Löwenborg and Anton Olson ahead of K. Berndtsson and G. Nyholm.
• Grenaa (the 8th Danish Chess Championship), won by Egil Jacobsen.
• London (the 28th London championship), won jointly by Philip Walsingham Sergeant, E. Macdonald and G.E. Wainwright, ahead of Edward Guthlac Sergeant and Theodor Germann, 1917/18.
• The Hague won by G.S. Fontein ahead of Alexander Rueb, 1917/18.
• Łódź won by T. Regedziński ahead of Samuel Factor and G. Salwe, 1917/18.
• Vienna (the 9th Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament) (Quadrangular), won by M. Vidmar ahead of Savielly Tartakower, C. Schlechter and Lajos Asztalos, 1917/18.

Matches

• Otto Löwenborg won against Anton Olson (3 : 2) in Stockholm.
• Gustaf Nyholm defeated Karl Berndtsson (3.5 : 1.5) in Gothenburg.
• Gustaf Nyholm beat Otto Löwenborg (4 : 1) in Stockholm.

Births

• 19 March - László Szabó born in Budapest, Hungary. 9-time HUN-ch. GM 1950.
• 11 June - Romanas Arlauskas born in Kaunas, Lithuania. GMC 1965.
• 24 June - César Boutteville born in Thinh Hao, Vietnam, 6-time FRA-ch.
• 20 July - Luis Augusto Sánchez born in Columbia, 6-time COL-ch. IM 1951.
• 14 November - Stig Lundholm born in Luleå, Sweden. SWE-ch 1944, IMC 1983.
• 27 November - Haije Kramer born in the Netherlands. Dutch IM 1954.

Deaths

• 19 January - Walter Gledhill died in Harrogate, England. Gledhill Attack.
• 17 March - James Alexander Porterfield Rynd died in Dublin, Ireland.
• 17 March - Franz Brentano died in Zurich, Switzerland.
• 16 July - Vincenz Hruby died in Trieste, Italy.
• 17 July - Arturo Reggio died in Milan, Italy.

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