| 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam (1899) |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands (7-16 August 1899)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Score Place/Prize
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1 Atkins • 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 15 1st 200ƒ
2 Olland 0 • 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 2nd 150ƒ
3 Tresling 0 1 • 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 10 3rd-6th 70ƒ
4 Bleijkmans 0 0 1 • 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 10 3rd-6th 70ƒ
5 Mannheimer 0 ½ ½ 0 • 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 3rd-6th 70ƒ
6 Swiderski 0 ½ 0 1 0 • 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 3rd-6th 70ƒ
7 Dimer 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 • 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 8½ 7th-8th 25ƒ
8 Van Foreest 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 • 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 8½ 7th-8th 25ƒ
9 Partaj 0 1 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 • ½ 0 ½ 1 1 0 1 6½
10 Pelzer 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ • ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1 6½
11 Moquette 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 ½ • 0 0 1 1 1 5½
12 Schwan 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 • 0 ½ 1 1 5
13 Meiners 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 • ½ ½ 1 5
14 te Kolste 0 0 0 1 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ • 0 ½ 4
15 Heemskerk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 • 0 3
16 Trimborn 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 • 1½
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Introduction
The tournament consisted of sixteen players, mainly from the Netherlands and Germany with single representatives from England and Austria: Henry Ernest Atkins Dirk Bleijkmans Julius Dimer Arnold van Foreest Jan Frederik Heemskerk Jan Willem te Kolste Nathan Mannheimer Willem Meiners Julien Moquette Adolf Georg Olland Josef Partaj Ferdinand Walter Pelzer Wilhelm Schwan Rudolf Swiderski Joan Diderik Tresling Cornelius Trimborn. Perfect scores in international tournaments are rare and generally memorable, but Atkins' 15-0 is largely forgotten. Part of the reason is that there weren't any big names among his opponents. If you compare his achievement with perfect scores by Emanuel Lasker (Game Collection: New York 1893, The Impromtu Tournament or Jose Raul Capablanca (Game Collection: Rice CC Summer Masters Tourn. (New York 1913)), there seems no comparison between the strength of the opposition - at least, for those more familiar with US chess history than Dutch chess history. In any event, if 15-0 were that easy everybody would do it. Most masters who visited the Netherlands for a tournament knew better than to take the locals lightly. As it turned out, Atkins needed most of those points. Olland started out with two draws, then ran off nine wins in a row before a Round 12 loss left him two points down. He made a gallant effort in their Round 13 game, but Atkins ground away to clinch the tournament. By then he had two of the tailenders left to play, so why not go for it? Last place finisher Trimborn put up a grim resistance in the final round and may have even missed a draw, but Atkins was not to be denied. Atkins played a number of attractive games in this tournament, particularly with White, but it was the Round 8 game J D Tresling vs H E Atkins, 1899 which took away the brilliancy prize. SCORING BY ROUNDS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
1 Atkins 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 15.0
2 Olland = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 11.0
3 Bleijkmans 1 = 0 = 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 10.0
4 Mannheimer = 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 = 0 1 0 1 10.0
5 Swiderski 1 = 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 = 1 1 1 1 0 10.0
6 Tresling = = 1 1 = 0 1 0 1 1 = 1 0 1 1 10.0
7 Dimer = = 1 = = 0 1 = 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 8.5
8 Van Foreest = 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 = = 1 1 1 0 8.5
9 Partaj = 1 1 0 = 0 1 = 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 6.5
10 Pelzer 0 = 0 = = 1 0 1 1 1 = 0 = 0 0 6.5
11 Moquette = = 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 = 0 1 5.5
12 Meiners 0 = 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 = 0 0 0 5.5
13 Schwan = 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 = 0 0 1 0 1 5.0
14 te Kolste 0 = 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 = = = 0 1 0 4.0
15 Heemskerk 0 = 0 = 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0
16 Trimborn 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 1.5
PROGRESSIVE SCORE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
1 Atkins 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
2 Olland ½ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 10 11 11
3 Bleijkmans 1 1½ 1½ 2 2 3 3 4 5 6 6 7 8 9 10
4 Mannheimer ½ 1½ 2½ 3½ 4½ 4½ 5½ 6½ 7½ 7½ 8 8 9 9 10
5 Swiderski 1 1½ 1½ 2½ 3½ 4½ 4½ 5½ 5½ 6 7 8 9 10 10
6 Tresling ½ 1 2 3 3½ 3½ 4½ 4½ 5½ 6½ 7 8 8 9 10
7 Dimer ½ 1 2 2½ 3 3 4 4½ 4½ 4½ 5½ 6½ 7½ 7½ 8½
8 Van Foreest ½ ½ 1½ 2½ 2½ 2½ 3½ 4½ 4½ 5 5½ 6½ 7½ 8½ 8½
9 Partaj ½ 1½ 2½ 2½ 3 3 4 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 5½ 6½
10 Pelzer 0 ½ ½ 1 1½ 2½ 2½ 3½ 4½ 5½ 6 6 6½ 6½ 6½
11 Moquette ½ 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4½ 4½ 5½
12 Meiners 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1½ 2½ 2½ 3½ 3½ 4½ 5 5 5 5
13 Schwan ½ ½ ½ ½ 1½ 1½ 1½ 1½ 2½ 3 3 3 4 4 5
14 te Kolste 0 ½ 1½ 1½ 1½ 1½ 1½ 1½ 1½ 2 2½ 3 3 4 4
15 Heemskerk 0 ½ ½ 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3
16 Trimborn 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1½ 1½ 1½ 1½ 1½
Sources
(1) Amsterdam Internationale Schaakwedstrijd edited by Hendrik Meijer (http://books.google.com/books?id=-b...)
(2) British Chess Magazine, 1899, p. 373: http://books.google.com/books?id=Ro...
(3) Deutsche Schachzeitung, September 1899, p. 284: http://books.google.com/books?id=9j... November 1899, p. 331: http://books.google.com/books?id=9j...
(4) Tijdschrift van den Nederlandschen Schaakbond, January 1900, p. 16-17: http://books.google.com/books?id=kh...
(5) Wiener Schachzeitung, August/September 1899, p. 126: http://books.google.com/books?id=nR...
Credits
Many thanks to User: thomastonk for tracking down the dates of the individual rounds from contemporary newspapers, mostly the Algemeen Handelsbad. Also to User: Stonehenge for submitting many of the games. Original collection: Game Collection: Amsterdam 1899, by User: Phony Benoni.
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| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. D Bleijkmans vs F W Pelzer |
| 1-0 | 36 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C30 King's Gambit Declined |
| 2. C Trimborn vs J Partaj |
 | 0-1 | 30 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | A00 Uncommon Opening |
| 3. J F Heemskerk vs C Trimborn |
| 0-1 | 24 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C67 Ruy Lopez |
| 4. W Schwan vs N Mannheimer |
| 0-1 | 38 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense |
| 5. J W te Kolste vs Swiderski |
| 0-1 | 28 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C14 French, Classical |
| 6. J Dimer vs J Moquette |
| ½-½ | 86 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C14 French, Classical |
| 7. J Moquette vs D Bleijkmans |
| ½-½ | 64 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | A84 Dutch |
| 8. J W te Kolste vs J Dimer |
| ½-½ | 25 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense |
| 9. J Partaj vs W Schwan |
| ½-½ | 29 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C82 Ruy Lopez, Open |
| 10. Swiderski vs Olland |
| ½-½ | 66 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | B45 Sicilian, Taimanov |
| 11. W Meiners vs J F Heemskerk |
| ½-½ | 78 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C67 Ruy Lopez |
| 12. N Mannheimer vs Olland |
| ½-½ | 43 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | D35 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 13. H Atkins vs W Meiners |
| 1-0 | 49 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | D50 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 14. F W Pelzer vs J D Tresling |
| ½-½ | 21 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C01 French, Exchange |
| 15. J D Tresling vs A van Foreest |
 | ½-½ | 31 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C49 Four Knights |
| 16. A van Foreest vs H Atkins |
| 0-1 | 43 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C50 Giuoco Piano |
| 17. N Mannheimer vs C Trimborn |
| 1-0 | 23 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C29 Vienna Gambit |
| 18. Swiderski vs W Schwan |
| 1-0 | 11 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C80 Ruy Lopez, Open |
| 19. D Bleijkmans vs J W te Kolste |
| 0-1 | 65 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C44 King's Pawn Game |
| 20. C Trimborn vs Olland |
| 0-1 | 23 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | B45 Sicilian, Taimanov |
| 21. A van Foreest vs J Partaj |
| 1-0 | 18 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C11 French |
| 22. J Partaj vs W Meiners |
| 1-0 | 20 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C82 Ruy Lopez, Open |
| 23. H Atkins vs F W Pelzer |
| 1-0 | 25 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | D21 Queen's Gambit Accepted |
| 24. Olland vs W Schwan |
| 1-0 | 34 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C80 Ruy Lopez, Open |
| 25. J Moquette vs H Atkins |
| 0-1 | 26 | 1899 | 27th DCA Congress, Amsterdam | C53 Giuoco Piano |
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| Dec-23-12 | | Conrad93: Wow. A perfect 15/15.
No comments? |
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| Dec-23-12 | | Jim Bartle: These tournament pages are brand new, conrad. |
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Apr-03-13
 | | Stonehenge: The residences of the participants:
http://kranten.kb.nl/view/article/i... |
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| Jan-21-15 | | zanzibar: <Stonehenge>'s link contains: <The news of the day: small current, 14 July, 1899.PLAY CHESS.
The Nederlandsohe Chess Federation holds a Internationals league match to Amsterdam from 7-16 August axis Participants include: Dr. Cs. Trimborn, Cologne; J. Dimer, Hamburg; W. Sohwan, Cleves; F. W. Pelzer, Frankfurt / M .; Dr. N. Mannheim, Frankenthal; Rud. Swiderski, Leipzig; Josef Partag, Prague; H. E. Atkins Northampton; Mr. I. D.Tresling, Winschoten; "Mat" Utreoht; Jhr. A. E. Foreest, Amsterdam; D. Bleykmans, Amsterdam; I. W. to Kolsté, The Hague; W. B. H. Meiners, Amsterdam; J.J.R. Moqnette, Utrecht; J. T. Heemskerk, Sas v. Ghent. 15 foreigners and 11 countrymen have signed in.
<Het nieuws van den dag : kleine courant, 14 Juli 1899.SCHAKEN.
De Nederlandsohe Schaakbond houdt een internationalen hoofdklasse wedstrijd to Amsterdam van 7-16 Augustus a. s. Deelnemers zijn: Dr. Cs. Trimborn, Keulen; J. Dimer, Hamburg; W. Sohwan, Kleef; F. W. Pelzer, Frankfurt a/M.; Dr. N. Mannheimer, Frankenthal; Rud. Swiderski, Leipzig; Josef Partag, Praag; H. E. Atkins Northampton; Mr. I. D.Tresling, Winschoten; "Mat" Utreoht; Jhr. A. E. van Foreest, Amsterdam; D. Bleykmans, Amsterdam; I. W. te Kolsté, 's-Gravenhage; W. B. H. Meiners, Amsterdam; J.J.R. Moqnette, Utrecht; J. T. Heemskerk, Sas v. Gent. 15 buitenlanders en 11 landgenooten zich hebben aangemeld.> > |
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Nov-25-17
 | | offramp: <Conrad93: Wow. A perfect 15/15.
No comments?>
Yes. I have a comment. Over here, at the back. It's Offramp from Chucklevision. What could Atkins have done better in this tournament? |
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| May-01-18 | | zanzibar: <<offramp> What could Atkins have done better in this tournament?> He could have won this game too...
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[Event "Amsterdam (1899) - consult"]
[Site "Amsterdam NED"]
[Date "1899.08.06"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Atkins / Dimer / Mannheimer"]
[Black "v. Foreest / Olland / Tresling"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C80k"]
[EventDate "1899.08.06"]
[Source "Meijer tb p106/120"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.a4
Rb8 9.dxe5 Be6 10.axb5 axb5 11.c3 Be7 12.Nbd2 O-O 13.Re1 Nxd2 14.Qxd2
b4 15.Bc2 b3 16.Bb1 Qd7 17.Qd3 g6 18.Qe3 Ra8 19.Rxa8 Rxa8 20.Qh6 Bf8
21.Qh4 Ne7 22.Nd4 Bf5 23.Bxf5 Nxf5 24.Qh3 c5 25.Nxb3 Qa4 26.Nd2 Qc2
27.g4 Bh6 28.gxf5 Bxd2 29.fxg6 Qxg6+ 0-1
>
Not sure why everybody's always saying he was undefeated in Amsterdam - a dam lie that! |
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| May-01-18 | | zanzibar: Why is this tournament entitled <DCA Congress 27th>? Doing a google search fails to find any real usage elsewhere: https://www.google.com/search?q=dca... I don't think I encountered the 27th nonmenclature when exploring Delpher either. Myself, I'd like to see the more common naming of the Event after the location. |
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| May-01-18 | | zanzibar: Fwiw - the local contemporaneous press (Telegraaf, Algemeen Handelsblad, De Tijd, etc) referred to the tournament as <Nederlandsche SchaakbondInternationale Hoofdklasse-wedstrijd>
which translates roughly to
<The Dutch chess federationInternational big league-competition>
The American press generally referred to the tournament as <International Amateur Tourney at Amsterdam> . |
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May-01-18
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I believe that my odd comment,
<offramp: <Conrad93: Wow. A perfect 15/15. No comments?> Yes. I have a comment. Over here, at the back. It's Offramp from Chucklevision. What could Atkins have done better in this tournament?> ...was based on a question given one of the players at the interminable press conferences during Anand - Carlsen World Championship (2013) in Chennai. Questions were being asked by hordes of Indian non-chess-playing journos, and I think Carlsen was asked, after the last game,
<"What could Anand have done better in this match?"> But it could have been Anand being asked about either himself or Carlsen. |
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May-01-18
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See
https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=... <Zeven-en-twintigste Algemeene Vergadering van den Nederlandsche Schaakbond> Nowadays we would write: zevenentwintigste Algemene Vergadering van de Nederlands(ch)e Schaakbond. |
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