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Overview of the events of 1903 in chess
Events in
chess in 1903:
News
Births
Tihomil Drezga (1903–1981) born in
Šibenik ,
Croatia
Henryk Friedman (1903–1942), Polish master
Gisela Harum (1903–1995), Austrian
chess master
Menachem Oren (1903–1962) born in
Różana , Poland
Karol Piltz (1903–1939), Polish
chess master.
Solomon Gotthilf (1903–1967), Russian master
January 1 –
Kola Kwariani (1903–1980) professional wrestler, is born in
Kutaisi ,
Georgia
February 28 –
Ozren Nedeljković (1903–1984), Serbian master, is born in Sremski Karlovcim
March 20 –
Vitaly Halberstadt (1903–1967), French
endgame study composer, is born in
Odessa
March 29 –
Heinrich Reinhardt (1903–1990), German–Argentine master, is born in
Stettin
April 1 –
Salo Landau (1903–1943), Dutch player, who died in a
Nazi
concentration camp is born in
Bochnia ,
Galicia ,
Austria-Hungary
April 9 –
Morris Schapiro (1903–1996), American investment banker and chess master, is born in Lithuania
April 17 [
O.S. April 4] 1903
Gregor Piatigorsky (1903–1976), Russian-American cellist and chess patron, is born in
Dnipropetrovsk
June 14 –
Lajos Steiner (1903–1975), Hungarian and Australian
International Master (1950), is born in
Nagyvárad
August 4
Karl Ruben (date of death unknown), Danish master
August 21 –
William Fairhurst (1903–1982), British and New Zealand International Master (1951), is born in
Alderley Edge
August 25 –
Arpad Elo (1903–1992), Hungarian-American player and inventor of the
Elo rating system , is born in
Egyházaskesző ,
Austro-Hungarian Empire
September 17 –
George Koltanowski (1903–2000), Belgian and American chess player, is born in Antwerp
September 27
Boruch Israel Dyner (1903–1979) was a Belgian–Israeli
chess master
October 8 –
Georgy Geshev (1903–1937), Bulgarian master, is born in
Sofia
[2]
December 20 –
Ramón Rey Ardid (1903–1988), Spanish master and
Spanish champion from 1929 to 1943.
Deaths
February 26 –
Samuel Tinsley (1847–1903), English player and chess columnist for
The Times , competed at
Hastings 1895 , dies in London.
[3]
June 1 –
Josef Noa (1856–1903), Hungarian master, dies in Budapest at age 46.
August 8 –
Gyula Makovetz (1860–1903), Hungarian chess player and editor of the chess magazine Budapesti Sakkszemle , dies in Budapest.
References
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Burgess, Graham (1999), Chess Highlights of the 20th Century , pp. 16–17,
ISBN
1-901983-21-8
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Gaige, Jeremy (1987). Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography . McFarland. p. 138.
ISBN
0-7864-2353-6 .
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Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography , McFarland, p. 426,
ISBN
0-7864-2353-6