1942 in chess

Events in chess in 1942

Chess events in brief

* 9-18 June 1942 - Salzburg 1942 chess tournament, "Six Grandmasters' Tournament" in the rooms of Mirabell Palace, organised by Ehrhardt Post, a President of Nazi "Grossdeutscher Schachbund", was won by Alexander Alekhine, followed by Paul Keres, Paul Felix Schmidt, Klaus Junge, Efim Bogoljubow, and Gösta Stoltz. [http://www.endgame.nl/salz1942.htm]
* 31 August 1942 - Vladimirs Petrovs was arrested under the infamous Article 58, for criticising decreased living standards in Latvia since the Soviet annexation of 1940. Petrovs was sentenced to ten years in a corrective labor camp (Gulag). Finally, he had died at Kotlas on August 26, 1943 from an inflammation of the lungs. [Andris Fride, "Vladimirs Petrovs: A Chessplayer's Story from Greatness to the Gulags", 2004 Caissa Editions, Yorklyn, Delaware, USA. ISBN 0-939433-61-3]
* 14–26 September 1942 - a tournament purporting to be the first European Individual Chess Championship ("Europameisterschaft"), organised by Post, was held in Munich. The main event was won by Alexander Alekhine, followed by Paul Keres, Jan Foltys, Efim Bogoljubow, Kurt Richter, Gedeon Barcza, Klaus Junge, etc. The Qualification Tournament ("Wertungsturnier") won Gösta Danielsson ahead of József Szily.citation | last=Gillam | first=Anthony J. | last2=Swift | first2=A J | year=2001 | title=1st European championship Munich 1942 | publisher=The Chess Player |location=Nottingham | isbn=1-901034-46-1]
* 28 September 1942 - Salo Landau tried to escape the Nazis by fleeing to Switzerland with his family, but they were caught in Breda, near the border with Belgium. He was sent to a concentration camp in Gräditz, Silesia, where he died sometime between October 1943 and March 1944, probably 15 November, 1943. His wife and young daughter, whose hiding place was betrayed, were sent to Auschwitz, where they were gassed on October 12, 1944. [ [http://www.chessville.com/Espanol/NuestroCirculo/NuestroCirculoIndex.htm Nuestro Circulo #233] ]

Tournaments

* Dresden won by Klaus Junge, 3-8 January 1942.
* Beverwijk (Hoogovens), won by Max Euwe, January 1942.
* Moscow won by Igor Bondarevsky ahead of Vladimirs Petrovs, February 17 - March 12, 1942.
* Warsaw (Ghetto) won by Henryk Pogorieły, February - April 1942.
* Mar del Plata won by Miguel Najdorf ahead of Herman Pilnik and Gideon Stahlberg.
* Rostock won by Carl Carls, start 29 March 1942.
* Sverdlovsk won by Viacheslav Ragozin ahead of Petrovs, March 22 - April 11, 1942.
* New York (the 4th U.S. Chess Championship) won by Isaac Kashdan and Samuel Reshevsky, 10-30 April 1942.
* Cottbus won by Efim Bogoljubow and Milan Vidmar, Jr., start 19 April 1942.
* Bad Elster won by Walter Niephaus, start 10 May 1942.
* Salzburg won by Alexander Alekhine ahead of Paul Keres, 9-18 June 1942.
* Bad Oeynhausen (the 9th German Chess Championship), won by Ludwig Rellstab, start 22 June 1942.
* Kuibyshev won by Isaac Boleslavsky ahead of Vasily Smyslov, July 27 - August 19, 1942.
* Dallas (the 43rd U.S. Open), won by Herman Steiner and Daniel Yanofsky, 22-30 August 1942.
* Munich ("Europameisterschaft"), won by Alekhine ahead of Keres, 14-26 September 1942.
* Warsaw/Lublin/Krakow (the 3rd GG-ch), won by Alekhine followed by Junge, Bogoljubow, etc., 11-24 October 1942.
* Moscow (Championship of the City), won by Smyslov ahead of Boleslavsky, November 1942.
* Berlin won by Carl Ahues, start 5 December 1942.
* Prague (Duras Memorial), won by Alekhine and Junge, December 1942.

Matches

* Hector Rossetto defeated Carlos Guimard (8 : 5) in Buenos Aires, Argentina (the 20th ARG-ch). [http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/mound/7762/jag/base4049.htm]
* Vladimir Makogonov beat Salo Flohr (7.5 : 4.5) in Baku, Azerbaijan. [http://www.geocities.com/al2055perv/matches/1942/ma_fl_42.html]
* Rudolf Teschner won against Friedrich Sämisch (5 : 3) in Berlin, Germany.
* Samuel Reshevsky beat Isaac Kashdan (7.5 : 3.5) in New York (play-off match for the U.S. Champion title).

Deaths

* 1942 - Ilya Rabinovich evacuated from Leningrad but died of malnutrition in a hospital in Perm, Russia (World War II).
* 1942 - Nikolai Riumin died in Omsk, Russia.
* 1942 - Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz died in Latvia.
* 1942 - Samuil Vainshtein died during the Siege of Leningrad.
* 1942 - Henryk Friedman died probably in a Nazi concentration camp, General Government.
* 23 February 1942 - Max Blümich died in Falkenberg/Elster, Germany.
* 7 March 1942 - Sergey Belavenets died in Novgorod, Russia. Killed in combat action. Moscow City Champion 1932, 1937, 1938.
* 8 March 1942 - José Raúl Capablanca died at the Manhattan Chess Club. World Chess Champion 1921-1927.
* 18 April 1942 - Leonid Kubbel died during the siege of Leningrad. Russian chess problemist.
* 5 June 1942 - István Abonyi died in Budapest, Hungary.
* 8 July 1942 - Emil Zinner died in Nazi Majdanek concentration camp, General Government.
* August 1942 - Alexey Troitsky, founder of modern study composition, died of starvation in Leningrad, Russia.
* 20 August 1942 - Rudolf Spielmann died in Sweden (in exile).
* 3 September 1942 - Leon Schwartzmann arrested in France, died in Auschwitz.

References

External links

[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables13.htm 1942 crosstables]