Giovanni Martinolich was an Italian chess

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 master.

Born in Trieste

Trieste

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 (then Austria-Hungary Empire), The son of Dr Giovanni Martinolich (Padrincich or Padrinzi of Lussinpiccolo), a lawyer, Sec. of the Austrian Association of Maritime law and legal advisor to the British and US Consulates and of Anna Gerolimich of Lussinpiccolo a ship owner, he studied in Vienna

Vienna

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. In 1905/06, he took 4th, behind Leopold Löwy, Jr

Leopold Löwy, Jr

Leopold Loewy , Jr was an Austrian chess master.In 1893/94, he took 12th at Vienna . In 1899, he won the Amateur Tournament of the Vienna Chess Club, and took 3rd at Vienna...

, Milan Vidmar

Milan Vidmar

Milan Vidmar was a Slovene electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, philosopher, and writer. He was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.- Biography :...

 and Savielly Tartakower

Savielly Tartakower

Ksawery Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist of the 1920s and 30s...

, in campionato di Vienna. He won, ahead of Stefano Rosselli del Turco

Stefano Rosselli del Turco

Stefano Rosselli Del Turco, marquis, was an Italian chess master.He played in all first ten Italian championships, and was twice Italian Champion...

 and Arturo Reggio

Arturo Reggio

Arturo Reggio was an Italian chess master.He started playing chess as an engineering student at the Graz University of Technology and at the Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute of Vienna, both in Austria...

, at Milan 1906 (unofficial Italian Chess Championship

Italian Chess Championship

The 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....

, IV torneo dell'Unione Scacchistica Italiana), took 9th at Vienna 1907 (the 1st Trebitsch Memorial, Jacques Mieses

Jacques Mieses

----Jacques Mieses was a German-born Jewish chess Grandmaster and writer. He became a naturalized British citizen after World War II.p258-Chess career:...

 won), and won, ahead of Matteo Gladig

Matteo Gladig

Matteo Gladig was an Italian chess master.Born in Triest , he won at Triest 1905 , took 2nd, behind Giovanni Martinolich, at Triest 1909 , and drew a short match with Oldřich Duras at Triest 1909...

, at Triest 1909 (campionato della Società Scacchistica Triestina).

In 1910, he published an article Il Fegatello nell'apertura Spagnola in the Rivista Scacchistica Italiana. He died at the shockingly early age of 26, of heart related causes.

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