1943 in chess
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- 9 March 1943 - Robert James Fischer born at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, USA. His mother, Regina Wender, was a naturalized American citizen of Polish Jewish descent, born in Switzerland but raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Fischer's birth certificate listed Wender's husband, Hans-Gerhardt Fischer, a German biophysicist, as Fischer's father. The couple married in 1933 in Moscow, the Soviet Union, where Wender was studying medicine. Regina Fischer returned to the United States in 1939, while Hans-Gerhardt Fischer never entered the United States. Paul NemenyiPaul NemenyiPaul Felix Nemenyi was a Jewish Hungarian physicist and mathematician specializing in fluid dynamics...
, a Hungarian Jewish physicist, may have been Fischer's biological father. Regina and Nemenyi had an affair in 1942, and he made monthly child support payments to Regina. Later, Bobby Fischer was World Chess Champion (1972–1975).
Tournaments
- KuibyshevSamara, RussiaSamara , is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. Samara is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast...
won by Alexander KonstantinopolskyAlexander KonstantinopolskyAlexander Markovich Konstantinopolsky was a Soviet International Master of chess, chess coach and trainer, and a chess author. He was a five-time Kiev champion, and trained the world title challenger David Bronstein from a young age...
, February 1943. - Mar del PlataMar del PlataMar del Plata is an Argentine city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, south of Buenos Aires. Mar del Plata is the second largest city of Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" had apparently the sense of "sea of the Río de la Plata region" or "adjoining sea to the Río de la Plata"...
won by Miguel NajdorfMiguel NajdorfMiguel Najdorf was a Polish-born Argentine chess grandmaster of Jewish origin, famous for his Najdorf Variation....
followed by Gideon StåhlbergGideon StåhlbergAnders Gideon Tom Ståhlberg was a Swedish chess grandmaster.He won the Swedish Chess Championship of 1927, became Nordic champion in 1929, and held it until 1939....
, Paul Michel, Héctor RossettoHéctor RossettoHéctor Decio Rossetto was one of the best chess players in Argentine history.He earned the title of International Master in 1950 and the Grandmaster title in 1960....
, Herman PilnikHerman PilnikHerman Pilnik was an Argentine chess Grandmaster.-Career:...
, etc., 17–31 March 1943. - PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
won by Alexander AlekhineAlexander AlekhineAlexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...
ahead of Paul KeresPaul KeresPaul Keres , was an Estonian chess grandmaster, and a renowned chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s....
, 4–29 April 1943. - SverdlovskYekaterinburgYekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...
won by Mikhail BotvinnikMikhail BotvinnikMikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, Ph.D. was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and three-time World Chess Champion. Working as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at the same time, he was one of the very few famous chess players who achieved distinction in another career while...
followed by Vladimir MakogonovVladimir MakogonovVladimir Andreevich Makogonov was a chess player from Azerbaijan. He was born in Nakhchivan but lived in Baku for most of his life. He became an International Master in 1950 and was awarded an honorary Grandmaster title in 1987. Makogonov never became well known outside the Soviet Union, but was...
, Vasily SmyslovVasily SmyslovVasily Vasilyevich Smyslov was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions . Smyslov was twice equal first at the Soviet Championship , and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won...
and Ilya KanIlya KanIlya Abramovich Kan , was a Russian / Soviet International Master of Chess.He played ten times in Soviet Championships. In 1929, he took 3rd in Odessa . In 1931, he took 7th in Moscow . In 1933, he took 9th in Leningrad...
, etc., 20 April – 16 May 1943. - Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
won by Erich EliskasesErich EliskasesErich Gottlieb Eliskases was a chess Grandmaster of the 1930s and 1940s, who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition....
ahead of Octavio TrompowskyOctavio TrompowskyOctavio Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida was a Brazilian chess player, who was born and died in Rio de Janeiro....
, Walter CruzWalter CruzWalter Oswaldo Cruz was a Brazilian chess master.He was six-time Brazilian Champion and thrice Sub-Champion...
, etc., 17 May – 9 June 1943. - MontevideoMontevideoMontevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...
(the Uruguayan Chess ChampionshipUruguayan Chess ChampionshipThe Uruguayan Chess Championship is the national chess championship of Uruguay.-References:*...
), won by Arturo LiebsteinArturo LiebsteinArturo Liebstein was an Uruguayan chess master.He won thrice in the Uruguayan Chess Championship in 1940, 1942, and 1943.He tied for 9-11th at Montevideo 1941 , took 13th in the Mar del Plata chess tournament in 1943 , took 15th at Mar del Plata 1944 , and tied for 14-16th at Mar del Plata/Buenos...
. - Buenos AiresBuenos AiresBuenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
(the Argentine Chess ChampionshipArgentine Chess ChampionshipThe first Argentine Chess Championship was held in 1921. The Champion's title was granted after victorious or drawn match between previous champion and challenger, a winner of Torneo Mayor...
), won by Stahlberg ahead of Juan IliescoJuan IliescoJuan Traian Iliesco aka Ion Traian Iliescu was a Romanian–Argentine chess master.He played several times in Argentine championships...
. - RosarioRosarioRosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 1,159,004 residents as of the ....
won by Najdorf ahead of Moshe CzerniakMoshe Czerniak-Biography:In 1930 Moshe Czerniak took ninth at Warsaw in an event won by Paulino Frydman. In 1934 Czerniak emigrated from Poland to Palestine . In April 1935, he tied for 7th–8th in Tel Aviv . He was Palestinian Champion in 1936 and 1938. In April 1939, he played in the First Lasker Chess Club...
. - LvivLvivLviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...
won by Stepan PopelStepan PopelStepan Popel was a multiple chess champion of Lviv, Paris and eventually, of the Ukrainians in North America .-Biography:Stepan Popel was the nephew of an early master, Ignatz von Popiel , and took...
and Myroslav TurianskyMyroslav TurianskyMyroslav Turiansky was a Ukrainian chess master.He won the championship of the Shakhovyi Konyk Club in Lviv in 1928, and tied for 1st-2nd with Stepan Popel in the Championship of Western Ukraine at Lviv 1943.Joining the westward exodus in 1944, Turiansky wound up in Vienna, where in the years...
. - DiósgyőrDiósgyorDiósgyőr is a historical town in Hungary, today it is a part of Miskolc. The medieval castle in Diósgyőr was a favourite holiday residence of Hungarian kings and queens; today it is a popular tourist attraction. The city part has a heavy industrial background...
(the Hungarian Chess ChampionshipHungarian Chess ChampionshipThe inaugural Hungarian Chess Championship was held in the city of Győr in 1906. Initially, there was no governing body responsible for its organisation, until the formation of the Hungarian Chess Federation. The HCF first appeared in 1911, but failed to establish itself properly until 1923...
), won by Gedeon BarczaGedeon BarczaGedeon Barcza was a Hungarian chess master.In 1940, Barcza took third place, behind Max Euwe and Milan Vidmar, at Maróczy Jubiläum in Budapest. In September 1942, he took sixth place at the first European Championship in Munich; the event was won by Alexander Alekhine...
ahead of Géza FüsterGéza FüsterGéza Füster was a Hungarian-Canadian chess International Master.Born in Budapest, he won his first of many Budapest Championships in 1936. During World War II, he played in several strong tournaments. In 1941, he won the Hungarian Championship...
, and Lajos AsztalosLajos AsztalosLajos Asztalos was a Hungarian chess International Master, professor, and languages teacher....
. - Kolozsvár won by Füster.
- PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
(the Bohemia and Moravia Chess ChampionshipCzech Chess ChampionshipThe Czech National Chess Championship is the chess competition, which determines the best Czech Republic chess player.-History:First national championships were held before founding of independent Czechoslovakia as the championships of Bohemia every second year between 1905 and 1913...
) won by František ZítaFrantišek ZítaFrantišek Zíta was a Czech chess master who was born and died in Prague.Zíta played for Czechoslovakia in Chess Olympiads:* In 1937, at first reserve board in 7th Chess Olympiad in Stockholm ;...
. - SalzburgSalzburg-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...
won by Paul KeresPaul KeresPaul Keres , was an Estonian chess grandmaster, and a renowned chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s....
and Alekhine, followed by Paul Felix SchmidtPaul Felix SchmidtPaul Felix Schmidt was an Estonian chess International Master, chess writer, and chemist.- Biography :In June 1935, he won, ahead of Paul Keres, at Tallinn. In May 1936, he drew a match against Keres at Pärnu. In 1936, he won the 8th Estonian Championship at Tallinn. In December 1936, he placed...
, Efim BogoljubowEfim BogoljubowEfim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...
, Jan FoltysJan FoltysJan Foltys , was a Czech chess International Master.-Biography:...
, and Ludwig RellstabLudwig Rellstab (chess player)Ludwig Rellstab was a German chess master.He was German Champion, winning at Bad Oeynhausen 1942. He took 8th in the European Championship at Munich 1942 . In 1943, he took 6th in Salzburg...
, 9–19 June 1943. - ZlínZlínZlín , from 1949 to 1989 Gottwaldov , is a city in the Zlín Region, southeastern Moravia, Czech Republic, on the Dřevnice River. The development of the modern city is closely connected to the Bata Shoes company...
won by Čeněk KottnauerCenek KottnauerČeněk Kottnauer was a Czech British chess master.At the beginning of his career, he tied for 11-12th at Prague 1933 , and took 7th at Prague 1939 .During World War II, he took 6th at Prague 1942 , tied for 7-8th...
followed by Foltys, Luděk PachmanLudek PachmanLuděk Pachman was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. In 1972, after being imprisoned and tortured almost to death by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, he was allowed to emigrate to West Germany...
, Zíta, Jaroslav ŠajtarJaroslav ŠajtarJaroslav Šajtar was a Czech chess master and an honorary grandmaster, born in Ostrava.He won at Kraków 1938, thrice placed joined 4th at Choceň 1942, Prague 1943 , Zlín 1943, and 4th at Teplitz-Schönau 1947...
, etc. - FlorenceFlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
(the 10th Italian Chess ChampionshipItalian Chess ChampionshipThe Italian Chess Federation , was established in 1920.The first Italian Chess Championship took place at Viareggio 1921.The 1998 Championship was held 21–29 November in Saint-Vincent....
), won by Vincenzo NestlerVincenzo NestlerVincenzo Nestler was an Italian chess master.He won twice Italian Chess Championship at Florence 1943 and Trieste 1954 , and was four times Sub-Champion ....
ahead of Mario NapolitanoMario NapolitanoMario Napolitano was an Italian chess master.At the beginning of his career, Napolitano took 5th place in Venice in 1928. Then, he won at Milan 1934. He had played many times in the Italian championships and local tournaments – before, during and after World War II...
. - BakuBakuBaku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...
won by Salo FlohrSalo FlohrSalomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...
ahead of Vladimir MakogonovVladimir MakogonovVladimir Andreevich Makogonov was a chess player from Azerbaijan. He was born in Nakhchivan but lived in Baku for most of his life. He became an International Master in 1950 and was awarded an honorary Grandmaster title in 1987. Makogonov never became well known outside the Soviet Union, but was...
, June – July 1943. - SofiaSofiaSofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
(the Bulgarian Chess ChampionshipBulgarian Chess ChampionshipThe Bulgarian Chess Championship is an event inaugurated in 1933 to crown the best chess player in Bulgaria. The championship has been held on a nearly annual basis since, with only a few years missed...
), won by Oleg NeikirchOleg NeikirchOleg Nikolaev Neikirch was a Bulgarian chess master....
ahead of Alexander TsvetkovAlexander TsvetkovAlexander Kristov Tsvetkov a Bulgarian chess master.In April 1936, he won a game against Alexander Alekhine at Alekhine's Simultaneous Exhibition in Sofia...
, 11–25 July 1943. - TallinnTallinnTallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list...
won by Keres, 20–28 July 1943. - MalmöMalmöMalmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...
(the Swedish Chess ChampionshipSwedish Chess ChampionshipThe first Swedish Champion was Gustaf Nyholm who won two matches against winners of national tournaments: Berndtsson in Göteborg and Löwenborg in Stockholm in 1917. Until 1931 Swedish Chess Championships decided by match play. In the 1930s, Gideon Ståhlberg held the title in spite of results of the...
), won by Bengt EkenbergBengt EkenbergBengt August Edvard Ekenberg was a Swedish chess master.He twice won the Swedish Chess Championship at Malmö 1943 and Örnsköldsvik 1962....
ahead of Erik LundinErik LundinErik Lundin a Swedish chess master.In 1928, he won in Oslo, took 5th in Helsingborg, tied for 2nd-3rd in Stockholm . In 1929, he took 2nd in Göteborg , and took 3rd in Västerås...
and Olof KinnmarkOlof KinnmarkOlof Kinnmark was a Swedish chess master.He won a tournament at Trollhättan 1925 , took 3rd at Karlskrona 1932, and took 12th in Nordic Chess Championship at Copenhagen 1934...
. - StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
won by Stig LundholmStig LundholmStig Lundholm was a Swedish chess master.He won at Stockholm 1942, tied with Folke Ekström, ahead of both Gösta Stoltz and Erik Lundin, took second place behind Ekström at Stockholm 1943/44, and won at Lidköping 1944 ahead of Paul Keres...
and Gosta StoltzGösta Stoltz-Biography:Stoltz played a few matches with strong chess masters. In 1926, he lost to Mikhail Botvinnik at a team match Stockholm – Leningrad in Stockholm. In 1927, he drew with Allan Nilsson in Göteborg . In 1930, he won against Isaac Kashdan in Stockholm. In 1930, he lost to Rudolf Spielmann ...
. - DalhousieDalhousie-Buildings:*Dalhousie Castle, a castle near Bonnyrigg, Scotland, until 2003, was the seat of the Earls of Dalhousie, the chieftains of Clan Ramsay*Dalhousie Obelisk, a monument in Empress Place, Singapore...
(the Canadian Chess ChampionshipCanadian Chess ChampionshipThis is the list of all the winners of the Canadian Chess Championship, often referred to as the Canadian Closed Championship to distinguish it from the annual Canadian Open tournament. The winner of the Canadian Closed advances to the next stage of the FIDE World Chess Championship cycle...
), won by Daniel YanofskyDaniel YanofskyDaniel Abraham Yanofsky, OC, QC was Canada's first chess grandmaster, an eight-time Canadian Chess Champion, a chess writer, a chess arbiter, and a lawyer.-Life in chess:...
. - Ventnor City won by Anthony SantasiereAnthony SantasiereAnthony Edward Santasiere was an American chess master. Santasiere was a high school mathematics teacher by profession. His hobbies included creative writing and oil painting.-Chess career:...
and George Shainswit. - SyracuseSyracuse, New YorkSyracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, the largest U.S. city with the name "Syracuse", and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,170, and its metropolitan area had a population of 742,603...
(the 44th U.S. OpenU.S. Open Chess ChampionshipThe U.S. Open Championship is an open national chess championship that has been held in the United States annually since 1900.-History:Through 1938, the tournaments were organized by the Western Chess Association and its successor, the American Chess Federation .The United States Chess Federation ...
), won by Israel Albert Horowitz ahead of Santasiere, August 1943. - ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
(the 10th German Chess ChampionshipGerman Chess ChampionshipThe German Chess Championship has been played since 1861, and determines the national champion.Prior to 1880 three different federations organized chess activities in Germany: the Westdeutscher Schachbund , the Norddeutscher Schachbund and the Mitteldeutscher Schachbund . Each one organized its...
), won by Josef LokvencJosef LokvencJosef Lokvenc was an Austrian chess master.In 1925, he was awarded the Chess Master title in Braunau. In 1926, he took 3rd in Vienna. In 1936, he tied for 6-7th in Vienna . In 1938, he tied for 6-7th in Bad Harzburg...
followed by Schmidt, Hans Zollner, Hans Müller, Rellstab, Karl GilgKarl GilgKarl Gilg was a German chess International Master from Czechoslovakia.Gilg played for Czechoslovakia in several Chess Olympiads....
and Georg KieningerGeorg KieningerGeorg Kieninger was a German chess player and International Master .An avid cigar smoker, Kieninger was nicknamed "Eisernen Schorsch" because of his fighting style. He won the German Chess Championship in 1937, 1940, and 1947...
, etc., start 15 August 1943. - KuibyshevSamara, RussiaSamara , is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. Samara is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast...
won by Isaac BoleslavskyIsaac BoleslavskyIsaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky was a Soviet–Jewish chess Grandmaster.-Early career:Boleslavsky taught himself chess at age 9...
ahead of Konstantinopolsky, August – September 1943. - Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
(Quadrangular), won by Eliskases, September 1943. - MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
won by Keres ahead of Fuentes, Alfred BrinckmannAlfred BrinckmannAlfred Brinckmann was a German chess International Master, author and functionary from Kiel.-The chess player:He participated eight times in German Chess Championship in the period 1921-1949...
, 4–21 October 1943. - KrynicaKrynicaKrynica-Zdrój is a town in Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland in the Beskids mountains, inhabited by over eleven thousand people. It is the biggest spa town in Poland called The Pearl of Polish Spas; a tourist and winter sport centre. It was first recorded in 1547 and became a...
(the 4th GG-chGeneral Government chess tournamentGeneral Government chess championships were held during World War II:- Participants :*Alexander Alekhine /*Efim Bogoljubow /*Paul Felix Schmidt /*Klaus Junge /*Karl Gilg /*Josef Lokvenc /*Hans Müller /...
) won by Lokvenc, 25 November – 5 December 1943. - ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
won by Ernst GrünfeldErnst Grünfeld----Ernst Franz Grünfeld , an Austrian grandmaster and writer specializing in opening theory, was for a brief period after the First World War one of the strongest chess players in the world....
ahead of Müller, start 27 November 1943. - StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
won by Folke EkströmFolke EkströmFolke Ekström was a Swedish International Master of chess and of Correspondence chess .- Biography :...
ahead of Lundholm, 27 December 1943 - 4 January 1944. - Moscow (Championship of the CityMoscow City Chess Championship-References: ****** from chessbase.com...
), won by Botvinnik ahead of Smyslov, December 1943 - January 1944.
Matches
- Alexander AlekhineAlexander AlekhineAlexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...
drew with Efim BogoljubowEfim BogoljubowEfim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...
(1 : 1) in Warsaw, General GovernmentGeneral GovernmentThe General Government was an area of Second Republic of Poland under Nazi German rule during World War II; designated as a separate region of the Third Reich between 1939–1945...
, start 27 March 1943.
Team matches
- 25–26 April, Zagreb: CroatiaCroatiaCroatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
vs. BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
8-8 (4½-3½, 3½-4½)
(Tekavčić ½0 Tsvetkov; Šubarić 00 Neikirch; Jerman ½1 Popov; Filipčić 10 Malchev; Jonke ½1 Karastoichev; Petek 1½ Kiprov; Kindij 01 Dimitrov; Licul 10 Kantardzhiev)
- 22–25 May, Russe/Gorgevo: BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
vs. RomaniaRomaniaRomania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
result unknown
Births
- 9 March – Bobby FischerBobby FischerRobert James "Bobby" Fischer was an American chess Grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Fischer was also a best-selling chess author...
in ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, American GM and World ChampionWorld Chess ChampionshipThe World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest this title....
1972–1975 - 22 March – Liuben Spassov, Bulgarian GM
- 31 March – Bernard ZuckermanBernard ZuckermanBernard Zuckerman is an International Master of chess.Zuckerman competed in seven U.S. Chess Championships , his best result being a tie for fourth and fifth in 1965. He served as a member of the U.S...
in BrooklynBrooklynBrooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
, American IM - 10 April – Włodzimierz Schmidt in PoznańPoznanPoznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...
, Polish GM, seven time Polish ChampionPolish Chess ChampionshipIndividual Polish Chess Championship is the most important Polish chess tournament, aiming at selecting the best chess players in Poland. Based on the results of the tournament , the Polish Chess Federation selects the national and subsequently the olympiad team.The first men's championship took... - 13 April – Tim KrabbéTim KrabbéTim Krabbé is a Dutch journalist and novelist.Krabbé was born in Amsterdam. His writing has appeared in most major periodicals in the Netherlands. He is known to Dutch readers for his novel De Renner , first published in 1978...
, Dutch chess player and writer - 14 April – Ivan Nemet, Swiss GM
- 18 May – Gennadi SosonkoGennadi SosonkoGennadi Borisovich Sosonko is a Dutch chess Grandmaster .At the beginning of his career, in 1958, he won in the Leningrad juniors championship.Sosonko moved from the Soviet Union to the Netherlands via Israel in 1972...
in TroitskTroitsk, Chelyabinsk OblastTroitsk is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located east of the southern Ural Mountains and approximately south of Chelyabinsk. It stands on the east-flowing Uy River, a branch of the Tobol River. Population: 83,862 ; -History:...
, Dutch GM - 4 July – Orestes Rodriguez Vargas, Spanish GM
- 6 August – Helmut PflegerHelmut PflegerHelmut Pfleger is a German chess Grandmaster and author. He was one of the most promising chess players in the sixties and seventies. By profession, he is a doctor of medicine.- Chess career :...
, German GM - 9 August – Lubomir Kavalek in PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, Czech/American GM - 23 September – Mark TseitlinMark TseitlinMark Danilovich Tseitlin , is an Israeli International Grandmaster of chess of Russian origin.Mark Tseitlin got acquainted with chess in Leningrad's Pioneers Palace. He is self-taught, having studied without a coach...
in LeningradLeningradLeningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...
, Israeli GM - 22 October – Ricardo CalvoRicardo Calvo-Ricardo Calvo vs Viktor Korchnoi:This game between Ricardo Calvo and GM Viktor Korchnoi is known as "Calvo's Salvo", and was played at the Havana Olympiad 1966: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Bc5 6. Nb3 Ba7 7. c4 Nc6 8. O-O Qh4?!, a dubious move by Korchnoi that will allow his...
, Spanish chess player and historian - 21 November – Peter LeePeter Lee (chess player)Peter Nicholas Lee is an English chess player who won the British Chess Championship in 1965. Born in London and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, he represented Oxford University in the Varsity chess matches of 1963, 1964, 1965, and 1966, and represented England in the Chess Olympiads of 1966,...
, 1965 British ChampionBritish Chess ChampionshipThe British Chess Championship is organised by the English Chess Federation. There are separate championships for men and women. Since 1923 there have been sections for juniors, and since 1982 there has been an over-sixty championship. The championship venue usually changes every year and has been...
Deaths
- Henryk Pogorieły murdered by the Nazis in the PawiakPawiakPawiak was a prison built in 1835 in Warsaw, Poland.During the January 1863 Uprising, it served as a transfer camp for Poles sentenced by Imperial Russia to deportation to Siberia....
prison, Warsaw, the General GovernmentGeneral GovernmentThe General Government was an area of Second Republic of Poland under Nazi German rule during World War II; designated as a separate region of the Third Reich between 1939–1945...
. - Abram RabinovichAbram RabinovichAbram Rabinovich was a Lithuanian–Russian chess master.-Biography:...
died of starvation in Moscow, Russia. - Alexander RomanovskyAlexander RomanovskyAlexander Arsenievich Romanovsky was a Lithuanian–Russian chess master. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania . He was the elder brother of Peter Romanovsky....
died in Russia. - Vasily Osipovich SmyslovVasily Osipovich SmyslovVasily Osipovich Smyslov was a Russian chess master, and the father of Vasily Vasilievich Smyslov, World Chess Champion from 1957–8....
died in Russia. - Edward GerstenfeldEdward GerstenfeldEdward Issakovich Gerstenfeld was a Polish chess master.Born into a Jewish family in Lviv, Galicia , he took 3rd, behind Henryk Friedman and Izaak Schächter, in the Lvov City championships in 1933, took 3rd at Lvov 1933 , took 7th in the Lvov City-ch, and won...
died in Russia. - Emmanuel SapiraEmmanuel SapiraEmmanuel Sapira was a Belgian chess master.Born in Romania, he moved to Belgium. He shared 2nd, behind George Koltanowski, at Ghent 1923 , took 2nd at Brussels 1923 , finished 1st at Antwerp 1924 , took 10th at Brussels 1924 , took 2nd at Brussels 1925 , took 3rd at Spa 1926 Emmanuel Sapira...
died in Belgium. - Gunnar FriedemannGunnar Friedemann-Biography:Friedemann played several times in Estonian championships at Tallinn. In 1932, he tied for 3rd-4th with Johannes Türn . In 1933, he won the 5th EST–ch. In 1934, he took 3rd, behind Ilmar Raud and Paul Felix Schmidt, at the 6th EST–ch. In 1935, he took 2nd, behind Paul Keres, at the 7th...
died in Estonia. - Mirko BröderMirko BröderMirko Bröder, or Broeder, Broder, Breder was a Hungarian–Serbian chess master.Born in Budapest, he grew up in Novi Sad, Voivodina , where he studied law....
died in Serbia. - 9 February - Gunnar GundersenGunnar Gundersen (chess player)Gunnar Gundersen was an Australian chess master.Born in Bordeaux, France, he was raised in Melbourne, Australia, where his Norwegian father was the Scandinavian consul. Gundersen started to play chess at his first year of study at Melbourne University in 1902...
, Australian master, died in Melbourne. - 16 February – Abram SzpiroAbram SzpiroAbram Szpiro was a Polish chess master.Born in Germany, he moved with his family to Łódź, Poland. He tied for 7-8th , shared 4th , and twice took 6th in Łódź City championships. He represented Łódź in the 2nd Polish Team Chess Championship at Katowice 1934...
, Polish master, died in Auschwitz. - 17 February – Léon MonossonLéon MonossonLéon Monosson was a Belarusian–French chess master.Born in shtetl Shchedrin, near Bobruisk , he took 10th in Petrograd Léon Monosson (21 December 1892, Shchedrin – 17 February 1943, Auschwitz) was a Belarusian–French chess master.Born in shtetl Shchedrin, near Bobruisk (Belarus), he took 10th in...
, French master, died in Auschwitz. - 28 March – Karl Behting (Kārlis Bētiņš), died in Riga, Latvia. Behting variation.
- 13 May - Adrian Garcia CondeAdrian Garcia CondeAdrián García Conde was a Mexican-British chess master.Born in Valladolid, Yucatán, Mexico, he tied for 6-7th in the Hamburg 1910 chess tournament , took 6th at San Sebastian 1911 .After World War I, he settled in United Kingdom...
died in London, England. - 16 August – Stasch MlotkowskiStasch MlotkowskiStasch Mlotkowski was an American chess master....
died in Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA. - 26 August – Vladimirs PetrovsVladimirs PetrovsVladimirs Petrovs or Vladimir Petrov was a Latvian chess master.He was born in Riga, Latvia. Though he learned the game of chess relatively late, at age thirteen, Petrovs made rapid progress. By 1926, at age 19, he won the Riga Championship and finish third in the national championship...
died as a political prisoner in a Soviet labor camp in Kotlas, Russia. - 29 September – Karl BerndtssonKarl BerndtssonKarl Mathias Berndtsson Kullberg was a Swedish chess master who was born and died in Göteborg.He won at Copenhagen 1916, and lost a match for the Swedish Chess Championship to Gustaf Nyholm in 1917. He was first in the national tournaments in 1918, 1920, 1921 , and 1926...
died in Sweden. - 17 October – Jan KotrčJan KotrcJan Kotrč was a Czech chess master.Born in Bielsko , he was an editor of chess magazines Šach-Mat , České listy šachové in Prague, and Arbeiter Schachzeitung in the 1920s-1930s in Vienna.He shared 2nd with Karel Traxler, behind Jan Kvicala, at Prague 1891...
died in Vlachovo Březí, Bohemia. - 15 November – Salo LandauSalo LandauSalo Landau was a Dutch chess player, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.-Early life:...
died in a Nazi concentration camp in Gräditz, Silesia (then Germany, now Poland). - December – Heinrich WolfHeinrich WolfHeinrich Wolf was an Austrian chess master.-Biography:In 1899, he tied for 5-7th in Vienna . In 1900 he tied for 7-10th in Munich...
, Austrian master, died by the Nazis. - December – Isaak MazelIsaak MazelIsaak Yakovlevich Mazel was a Belarusian–Russian chess master.He tied for 8-9th at Moscow 1931 , tied for 15-16th at Leningrad 1934 .He shared 2nd, behind Nikolai Riumin, in Moscow City Chess Championship in 1933/34,tied...
, Belarusian master, died in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.