Bruno Edgar Siegheim was a German–South African chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

He took 3rd, behind Julius Finn

Julius Finn

Julius Finn was an American chess master.Born into a Jewish family in Władysławowo, Poland , he came to New York in 1887. From a humble start as a street peddler on the Lower East Side, Finn swiftly rose to become New York’s champion chess master and one of the country’s best blindfold chess...

 and Hermann Keidanski

Hermann Keidanski

Hermann Keidanski, later: Keidanz, Kaidanz was a Jewish Polish-German chess master....

, at New York 1903 (The Rice Gambit tournament at the Manhattan Chess Club). Then, he twice won South African Chess Championship

South African Chess Championship

The first South African Chess Championship was organised in 1892 by the Cape Town Chess Club. Nowadays the Championship is organised by Chess South Africa , the governing body of chess in South Africa. The tournament is normally held every two years...

 (1906 and 1912), and lost to Max Blieden in challenge (1910),
defeated Harry Duhan in challenge (1911), and defeated Henk Meihuizen in challenge (1912).

After World War I

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, he tied for 5-6th at Malvern 1921 (Frederick Yates

Frederick Yates

Frederick Dewhurst Yates was an English chess master who won the British Chess Championship on six occasions...

 won), and shared 2nd with Richard Réti

Richard Réti

Réti composed one of the most famous chess studies, shown in this diagram. It was published in Ostrauer Morgenzeitung 4 December 1921. It seems impossible for the white king to catch the advanced black pawn, while the white pawn can be easily stopped by the black king...

, behind Akiba Rubinstein

Akiba Rubinstein

Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was a famous Polish chess Grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. He was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the world championship in 1914, but it was cancelled because of the outbreak of World War I...

, at Hastings International Chess Congress

Hastings International Chess Congress

The Hastings International Chess Congress is an annual chess congress which takes place in Hastings, England, around the turn of the year. The main event is the Hastings Premier tournament, which was traditionally a 10 to 16 player round-robin tournament. In 2004/05 the tournament was played in the...

 in 1922/23. He also played a match with Mir Sultan Khan

Mir Sultan Khan

Malik Mir Sultan Khan was the strongest chess master of his time from Asia. This manservant from British India traveled with Colonel Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan , his master, to Britain, where he took the chess world by storm...

at London 1929.

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