1940 in chess

1940 in chess

Events in chess in 1940

Chess events in brief

* 17 January 1940 - Dawid Przepiórka, Stanisław Kohn, Moishe Lowtzky, Achilles Frydman, Abkin, Młynek, Zahorski and many others were arrested at the Kwieciński Chess Café in Warsaw, and imprisoned at Daniłowiczowska Str. (they had played a prison tournament won by Lowtzky there). Later (February – March 1940) most of them (all Jewish) were killed in a mass execution by the Nazis in Palmiry, General Government. [Tadeusz Wolsza, "Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy... Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich", Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa 1995 (tom 1), 1996 (t.2), 1999 (t.3)]
* September 1940 - National Chess Centre burnt down in London after an air raid (World War II). [http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/history.txt]

Tournaments

* Havana won by Isaac Kashdan ahead of Georges Koltanowski, January 1940.
* Beverwijk (the 3rd "Hoogovenschaaktoernoi") won by Max Euwe, January 1940.
* Budapest ("Maroczy Jubilaeum") won by Euwe followed by Milan Vidmar, Gedeon Barcza, etc.
* Buenos Aires (the 19th Argentine Chess Championship, "Torneo Mayor") won by Aristide Gromer followed by Franciszek Sulik, Carlos Guimard, etc.
* Montreal (the 44th Canadian Chess Championship), won by Maurice Fox.
* London ("Easter") won by Harry Golombek and Paul List ahead of Vera Menchik-Stevenson.
* New York (the 3rd U.S. Chess Championship), won by Samuel Reshevsky, 27 April – 19 May 1940.
* Bad Elster won by Karl Gilg and Ludwig Roedl, start 14 May 1940.
* Berlin won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Kurt Richter, start 16 June 1940.
* Dallas (the 41st U.S. Open), won by Reuben Fine, August 1940.
* Bad Oeynhausen (the 7th German Chess Championship), won by Georg Kieninger ahead of Paul Felix Schmidt, start 4 August 1940.
* Rakovnik (the Bohemia and Moravia Chess Championship), won by Jan Foltys, 17–31 August 1940.
* Leningrad (the 15th Leningrad City Chess Championship) won by Ilya Rabinovich.
* Moscow (the 12th USSR Chess Championship), won jointly by Igor Bondarevsky and Andor Lilienthal, 5 September – 3 October 1940.
* Kiev (the 12th Ukrainian Chess Championship), won by Isaac Boleslavsky ahead of David Bronstein.
* Krakow/Krynica/Warsaw (the 1st General Government Chess Championship), won by Bogoljubow and Anton Kohler, 3–17 November 1940.

Matches

* Paul Keres won against Max Euwe (7.5 : 6.5) in The Netherlands (various places) in 1939/40. [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/matches/1930-49.htm]
* Carlos Maderna defeated Luis Piazzini (8 : 6), Buenos Aires, Argentina (the 18th ARG-ch).
* Walter Cruz beat Octavio Trompowsky (5.5 : 1.5), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
* Georg Kieninger defeated Wilhelm Ernst (6 : 4), Cologne, Germany.
* Mikhail Botvinnik beat Viacheslav Ragozin (7 : 3), Leningrad, Russia.

Deaths

* ca. March 1940 - Dawid Przepiórka killed in a mass execution by the Nazis in Palmiry.
* ca. March 1940 - Achilles Frydman killed in a mass execution in Palmiry.
* ca. March 1940 - Stanisław Kohn killed in a mass execution in Palmiry.
* ca. March 1940 - Moishe Lowtzky killed in a mass execution in Palmiry.
* 5 May 1940 - Willi Schlage died in Berlin, Germany.
* 4 July 1940 - Sammi Fajarowicz died in the Jewish Hospital in Leipzig ("Leipziger Israelische Krankenhaus") because of tuberculosis. Fajarowicz Gambit.
* 11 September 1940 - Peter Fyfe died in Glasgow, Scotland. Fyfe Gambit.
* 30 November 1940 - Wilhelm Hilse died in Germany.
* December 1940 - Walter John died in Berlin, Germany.
* December 1940 - František Schubert died in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
* 1940 - Max Walter died in Slovakia.

References

External links

[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables11.htm 1940 crosstables]


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