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Overview of the events of 1917 in chess
Events in
chess in 1917:
Chess events in brief
Tournaments
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Vienna (the 8th
Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament) (Triangular), won by
Carl Schlechter ahead of
Milan Vidmar and
Arthur Kaufmann, 1916/17.
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Łódź won by
Akiba Rubinstein ahead of
Gersz Salwe and
Teodor Regedziński, 1916/17.
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Łódź (Quadrangular), won by G. Salwe, 1916/17.
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Brno won by
Julius Brach.
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Budapest won by
Gyula Breyer followed by
Zsigmond Barász,
Károly Sterk,
Kornél Havasi and
Johannes Esser.
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Warsaw won by A. Rubinstein ahead of
Moishe Lowtzky,
Zdzisław Belsitzmann and
Alexander Flamberg.
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Triberg (Quadrangular) won by
Ilya Rabinovich and
Alexey Selezniev.
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Berlin won by
Walter John and
Paul Johner.
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Paris won by
Arnold Aurbach ahead of
Adolphe Silbert.
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The Hague won by
Jan Willem te Kolsté and
Gerard Oskam.
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Scheveningen won by
George Salto Fontein and G. Oskam ahead of
Max Marchand and
Rudolf Loman.
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Utrecht won by H. van Hartingsvelt and H.S. van Linschoten.
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New York City (Manhattan Chess Club Championship), won by
Abraham Kupchik.
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Rochester (New York State Championship) won by
Oscar Chajes ahead of H.M. Philips.
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Lexington (the 18th
Western Chess Association), won by
Edward Lasker ahead of
Jackson Whipps Showalter and W. Winter, finished 25 August.
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Havana (Triangular), won by C.S. Howell ahead of
Juan Corzo.
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Buenos Aires won by
Rolando Illa and C.M. Portela.
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Christiania (the 10th
Nordic Chess Championship), won by
Gustaf Nyholm ahead of
Karl Berndtsson.
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Stockholm (
Swedish Chess Championship) won by
Otto von Löwenborg and
Anton Olson ahead of K. Berndtsson and G. Nyholm.
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Grenaa (the 8th
Danish Chess Championship), won by
Egil Jacobsen.
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London (the 28th London championship), won jointly by
Philip Walsingham Sergeant, E. Macdonald and G.E. Wainwright, ahead of
Edward Guthlac Sergeant and
Theodor Germann, 1917/18.
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The Hague won by G.S. Fontein ahead of
Alexander Rueb, 1917/18.
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Łódź won by T. Regedziński ahead of
Samuel Factor and G. Salwe, 1917/18.
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Vienna (the 9th
Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament) (Quadrangular), won by M. Vidmar ahead of
Savielly Tartakower, C. Schlechter and
Lajos Asztalos, 1917/18.
Matches
Births
Deaths
References