1941 in chess

Events in chess in 1941

Chess events in brief

* "Basic Chess Endings" by Reuben Fine was published.
* 29 August 1941 - Gideon Ståhlberg played a 400 game simultaneous exhibition in Buenos Aires; 364 wins, 14 draws, 22 losses. [http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/history.txt]
* 8-14 September 1941 - "Europaturnier" held in Munich, was organised by Ehrhardt Post, a President of Nazi "Grossdeutscher Schachbund". Max Euwe had declined the invitation for München 1941 due to his "occupational obligations", as manager of a groceries business. This time he refused to participate, because Alexander Alekhine was invited. Euwe mentioned futile reasons. The real motive was Alekhine’s offence of Euwe in his anti-Semitic articles. [http://www.endgame.nl/salz1942.htm] Alekhine wrote six Nazi articles which first appeared in the Paris newspaper "Pariser Zeitung" in March 1941. He wrote a series of articles for "Die Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden" called "Jewish and Aryan Chess." The articles were reproduced in "Deutsch Schachzeitung". [http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/nazi.htm] Among others, Alekhine had written about the "Jewish clique" around Euwe in World Chess Championship 1935. The event was won by Gösta Stoltz, who scored a spectacular victory (1½ points ahead of Alekhine and Erik Lundin), and won 1,000 Reichsmarks. His trophy (donated by the "Ministerpräsident" Ludwig Siebert) of Meissen porcelain is worth close to $1,000. [http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter14.html]

Tournaments

* Beverwijk (the 4th "Hoogovenschaaktoernoi") won by Arthur Wijnans, January 1941.
* Leningrad/Moscow (the Soviet Absolute Championship), won by Mikhail Botvinnik ahead of Paul Keres, March 23 - April 29, 1941.
* Riga (the 1st Soviet Latvian Chess Championship), won by Alexander Koblencs ahead of Fricis Apšenieks
* Mar del Plata won by Gideon Stahlberg followed by Miguel Najdorf, Erich Eliskases, etc.
* Buenos Aires ("Circulo"), won by Stahlberg and Najdorf
* Buenos Aires won by Paulino Frydman ahead of Moshe Czerniak
* Montevideo won by Erich Eliskases followed by Markas Luckis, Ludwig Engels, Héctor Rossetto, etc.
* Prague (Kautsky Memorial), won by Karel Opočenský ahead of Miroslav Katětov and Karel Treybal
* Bad Elster won by Klaus Junge, start 11 May 1941.
* Baarn won by Max Euwe ahead of Hans Kmoch
* Groningen won by Salo Landau
* Ventnor City won by Jacob Levin
* Sao Pedro won by Eliskases and Carlos Guimard, followed by Engels, Frydman, Luckis, etc., 2-26 July 1941.
* Krefeld won by Efim Bogoljubow, start 5 July 1941.
* Bad Oeynhausen (the 8th German Chess Championship), won by Paul Felix Schmidt and Junge, start 3 August 1941.
* St. Louis (the 42nd U.S. Open), won by Reuben Fine ahead of Herman Steiner, July 1941.
* Hamilton (New York State Chess Association Championship), won by Fine ahead of Arnold Denker, Isaac Kashdan and Samuel Reshevsky, 16-23 August 1941.
* New York (Marshall Chess Club Championship), won by Fine ahead of Frank Marshall
* Trencianske Teplice won by Jan Foltys ahead of József Szily and Ludovit Potuček
* Munich (the 2nd "Europaturnier"), won by Gösta Stoltz ahead of Erik Lundin and Alexander Alekhine, Bogoljubow, Bjørn Nielsen, Kurt Richter, Foltys, etc., 8-14 September 1941.
* Krakow/Warsaw (the 2nd GG-ch), won by Alekhine and Schmidt, 5-19 October 1941.
* Winnipeg (the 45th Canadian Chess Championship), won by Daniel Yanofsky, October 1941.
* Krakow (Championship of the City), won by Paul Mross, November 1941.

Matches

* Max Euwe beat Efim Bogoljubow (6.5 : 3.5) in Karlsbad, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
* Paul Felix Schmidt beat Klaus Junge (3.5 : 0.5) in Bromberg, Germany.
* Johannes Türn beat Feliks Kibbermann (3.5 : 0.5) in Tallinn, Estonia.
* Jan Foltys drew with Karel Opočenský (6 : 6) in Prague.
* Samuel Reshevsky defeated Israel Albert Horowitz (9.5 : 6.5) in New York.
* Carlos Guimard beat Carlos Maderna (8 : 1) in La Plata, Argentina.

Births

* 14 January – Oscar Quiñones in Lima, Peruvian chess player
* 25 April – Raymond Weinstein in Brooklyn, American chess player
* 3 May – Nona Gaprindashvili in Zugdidi, Georgia, Women's World Champion (1962–1978), first female GM
* 16 June – Tõnu Õim in Talinn, Estonian correspondence GM
* 2 August – Jacob Murey in Moscow, Israeli GM
* 11 August – Alla Kushnir, Russian-born Israeli WGM, several-time challenger for the Women's Championship
* 3 October – Victor Palciauskas in Kaunas, American correspondence GM, World Correspondence Champion 1978–1984
* 10 September – Rosendo Balinas, Jr., Filipino GM
* 13 December – Bessel Kok, Dutch chess organizer
* 30 December – Bruno Parma in Ljubljana, Slovene/Yugoslav GM

Deaths

* Jakub Kolski died in the Lodz Ghetto.
* Izaak Towbin died in the Warsaw Ghetto.
* Leon Kremer died in the General Government.
* Josef Cukierman committed suicide in France.
* Konstantin Vygodchikov died in Belarus.
* František Treybal died in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
* 11 January – Emanuel Lasker died in Manhattan, New York. World Chess Champion in the period 1894-1921.
* 25 April – Fricis Apšenieks died of tuberculosis in Riga. Latvian champion 1926/27 and 1934.
* after 22 June – Izaak Appel disappeared and probably died in a Nazi concentation camp, the District Galicia of General Government.
* 12 July – Charles Jaffe died in Brooklyn, New York. Former New York State champion and chess editor.
* 13 July – Ilmar Raud died of starvation in Buenos Aires, Argentina (in exile). Estonian champion in 1934 and 1939.
* 3 September – Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky died, according to the Soviet official sources, on Lake Ladoga on a ship in a German air raid (he was the only one killed on the barge, which was displaying Red Cross flags) during the Siege of Leningrad, but is believed by some to have fallen victim to the Stalinist repression as the majority of the Old Guard of revolutionists. Three-time Leningrad City champion in 1925 (jointly), 1926 and 1929.
* 27 September – Juan Corzo died in Havana. Cuban champion in 1898, 1902, 1907, 1912, and 1918.
* 2 October – Karel Treybal arrested on 30 May, imprisoned and later charged with concealing weapons for use by resistance forces and the illegal possession of a pistol. He was condemned to death and executed by the Nazis in Prague, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
* 3 October – Frederick Hamilton-Russell died in Cleobury North, England. President of British Chess Federation.
* 16 October – Antanas Gustaitis was caught attempting to cross the border on 4 March, arrested by NKVD, and taken to Moscow where he was shot. Lithuanian champion in 1922.
* 29 December – Vsevolod Rauzer died during the siege of Leningrad. Ukrainian champion in 1927 and 1933 (jointly).

References

External links

[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables12.htm 1941 crosstables]