1943 in chess

1943 in chess

Events in chess in 1943

Chess events in brief

* 9 March 1943 - Robert James Fischer born in Chicago, USA. World Chess Champion (1972–1975). [http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/history.txt]

Tournaments

* Mar del Plata won by Miguel Najdorf followed by Gideon Ståhlberg, Paul Michel, Héctor Rossetto, Herman Pilnik, etc.
* Rio de Janeiro won by Erich Eliskases ahead of Octavio Trompowsky.
* Kuibyshev won by Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Feruary 1943.
* Prague won by Alexander Alekhine, 4–29 April 1943.
* Sverdlovsk won by Mikhail Botvinnik followed by Vladimir Makogonov, Vasily Smyslov and Ilya Kan, etc., 20 April – 16 May 1943.
* Lviv won by Stepan Popel and Myroslav Turiansky.
* Prague (the Bohemia and Moravia Chess Championship) won by František Zíta.
* Salzburg won by Paul Keres and Alekhine, followed by Paul Felix Schmidt, Efim Bogoljubow, Jan Foltys, and Ludwig Rellstab, 9–19 June 1943.
* Zlin won by Čeněk Kottnauer followed by Foltys, Luděk Pachman, etc.
* Baku won by Salo Flohr ahead of Vladimir Makogonov, June – July 1943.
* Tallinn won by Keres, 20–28 July 1943.
* Syracuse (the 44th U.S. Open), won by Israel Albert Horowitz, August 1943.
* Vienna (the 10th German Chess Championship), won by Josef Lokvenc ahead of Schmidt, start 15 August 1943.
* Kuibyshev won by Isaac Boleslavsky ahead of Konstantinopolsky, August – September 1943.
* Madrid won by Keres, 4–21 October 1943.
* Krynica (the 4th GG-ch) won by Lokvenc, 25 November – 5 December 1943.
* Vienna won by Ernst Grünfeld ahead of Hans Müller, start 27 November 1943.

Matches

* Alexander Alekhine drew with Efim Bogoljubow (1 : 1) in Warsaw , General Government, start 27 March 1943. [http://www.thechesslibrary.com/files/ShortMatchesOf20thCentury.htm]

Deaths

* 1943 - Henryk Pogorieły murdered by the Nazis in the Pawiak prison, Warsaw, the General Government.
* 1943 - Abram Rabinovich died of starvation in Moscow, Russia.
* 1943 - Edward Gerstenfeld died in Ukraine.
* 1943 - Emmanuel Sapira died in Belgium.
* 1943 - Gunnar Friedemann died in Estonia.
* 1943 - Mirko Bröder died in Serbia.
* 16 February 1943 - Abram Szpiro, Polish master, died in Auschwitz.
* 17 February 1943 - Léon Monosson, French master, died in Auschwitz.
* 28 March 1943 - Karl Behting (Kārlis Bētiņš), died in Riga, Latvia. Behting variation.
* 29 September 1943 - Karl Berndtsson died in Sweden.
* December 1943 - Heinrich Wolf, Austrian master, died by the Nazis.

References

External links

[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables%2014.htm 1943 crosstables]


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