B. Hallegua (chess player)

B. Hallegua (born 1880 - died ?) was a Turkish chess master.

In 1914, he played in three tournaments in pre-war Europe. He took 4th, behind Frank James Marshall, Alexander Alekhine and André Muffang, in the Quadrangular tournament of the famous Café Continental in Paris on July 12th-14th, [ [http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/marshall/tournaments/index.html The Frank James Marshall Electronic Archive and Museum: Tournament and Match Record ] ] [ [http://chessbooks.nl/elburg74.html MIME Attachment View ] ] and took 2nd, in a tournament in the Café de la Régence in Paris. [http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's "Chess Tournament Crosstables", An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01] Hallegua won (leading), ahead of Ilya Rabinovich and Oscar Tenner, "Hauptturnier A" in Mannheim tournament (interrupted the 19th DSB Congress, July/August 1914). [ [http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=5003 Schach Nachrichten ] ]

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