1916 in chess

Events in chess in 1916:

Chess events in brief

  • The 1st Isaac Rice Memorial Tournament – fourteen participants played in New York City, from January 18 to February 4, 1916. Wealthy German–American inventor Isaac Leopold Rice (1850–1915) was a lover of chess (Rice Gambit) and a patron of chess competitions. The event included two stages (preliminaries and final). The preliminaries started as a round-robin tournament. Five players qualified for the final. José Raúl Capablanca played superior chess in the preliminaries. Since the results of the preliminaries carried over into the finals, Capablanca with a 3½-point lead was a heavy favorite to win the tournament. Dawid Janowski, Boris Kostić and Abraham Kupchik tied for 2nd-4th, and Oscar Chajes took 5th place.[1] The final tournament was won by Chajes (who beat Capablanca) and Janowski, ahead of Capablanca, Kostić and Kupchik. Summary, the winner was Capablanca (+12 –1 =4), followed by Janowski 11 points, Chajes 10½ points, Kostić and Kupchik 10 points each.[2][3]

Tournaments

Matches

Births

  • 7 January - Paul Keres born in Narva, Estonia. EST-ch 1935,42,42,45,53. GM 1950.
  • 4 February - Octav Troianescu born in Romania. ROU-ch 1946,54,56,57. IM 1950.
  • 6 May - Povilas Tautvaišas born in Lithuania.
  • 11 May - Osmo Ilmari Kaila born in Helsinki, Finland; twice FIN-ch 1939, 1954. IM 1952.
  • 15 May - Vincenzo Castaldi born in Marradi, Italy; seven times ITA-ch. IM 1950.
  • 20 August - Paul Felix Schmidt born in Narva, Estonia; twice EST-ch 1936, 1937 and GER-ch 1941. IM 1950.
  • 3 September - Alexander Koblencs born in Riga, Latvia. LAT-ch 1941,45,46,49. IM.
  • 16 September - Vernon Dilworth born in England. Dilworth variation.
  • 18 November - Miguel Cuéllar Gacharná born in Colombia; eight times COL-ch, IM 1957.

Deaths

References

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