Matteo Gladig was an Italian 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.

Born in Triest (then Austria-Hungary Empire), he won at Triest 1905 (torneo sociale della Società Scacchistica Triestina), took 2nd, behind Giovanni Martinolich

Giovanni Martinolich

Giovanni Martinolich was an Italian chess master.Born in Trieste , The son of Dr Giovanni Martinolich , 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...

, at Triest 1909 (campionato della SST), and drew a short match with Oldřich Duras

Oldrich Duras

Oldřich Duras was a leading Czech chess master of the early 20th century...

 (+1 –1 =2) at Triest 1909. 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 Rome 1911 (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....

, V Torneo dell'Unione Scacchistica Italiana).

During World War I

World War I

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, he – as an Austrian citizen of Italian origin – did not want to fight for an Austrian Army on the Italian Front

Italian Campaign (World War I)

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. Finally, he was captured and tried in Laibach

Laibach

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(Ljubljana, then Austria-Hungary) where he died.