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Nordic Congress, Stockholm Tournament
Alexander Alekhine8.5/10(+8 -1 =1)[games]
Erich Cohn7/10(+6 -2 =2)[games]
Georg Marco6.5/10(+6 -3 =1)[games]
Adolf Georg Olland5.5/10(+5 -4 =1)[games]
Rudolf Spielmann5/10(+4 -4 =2)[games]
Hugo Langborg4.5/10(+4 -5 =1)[games]
Victor Sjoberg4/10(+3 -5 =2)[games]
Joel Fridlizius4/10(+4 -6 =0)[games]
Fritz Englund4/10(+3 -5 =2)[games]
Johannes Giersing3.5/10(+3 -6 =1)[games]
Gustaf Nyholm2.5/10(+2 -7 =1)[games]
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Nordic Congress, Stockholm (1912)

This was the 6th Nordic Chess Congress. Several foreign masters, including Alekhine, Cohn, Marco and Spielmann were invited in order to give the Swedish players some strong practice. Alekhine, still just 19, dominated the proceedings despite being upset in the third round by Sweden's Joel Fridlizius. It was Alekhine's first victory in an international tournament.

Stockholm, Sweden (25 June - 6 July 1912)

               1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
————————————————————————————————————————
 1 Alekhine    • 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 1  8½
 2 Cohn        0 • 1 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1 1 1  7
 3 Marco       0 0 • 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1  6½
 4 Olland      0 0 0 • 1 1 1 1 ½ 0 1  5½
 5 Spielmann   0 ½ 1 0 • 0 1 0 1 1 ½  5
 6 Langborg    0 ½ 0 0 1 • 1 1 0 0 1  4½
=7 Sjöberg     0 1 ½ 0 0 0 • 1 1 ½ 0  4
=7 Fridlizius  1 0 0 0 1 0 0 • 0 1 1  4
=7 Englund     ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 • 1 0  4
10 Giersing    0 0 0 1 0 1 ½ 0 0 • 1  3½
11 Nyholm      0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 0 •  2½
————————————————————————————————————————
Eleven rounds in 12 days, starting on Tuesday 25 June and ending on Saturday 6 July. Rest day Sunday 30 June. One bye each round (55 games).

The Class 1 tournament was won by Albert Larsson, ahead of Torsten Relfsson and Herman Ljunggren (=2nd). Larsson thus became a "Nordic master" (TfS p. 131)

Tournament book: Tidskrift för Schack, 7-9/1912, pp. 121-268 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1912...)

Sources

Wikipedia article: Nordic Chess Championship
Tidskrift för Schack, 7-9/1912, pp. 121-182 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1912...)
Wiener Schachzeitung, 1-4/1913, pp. 1-25 (https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/...)
Wiener Schachzeitung, 5-8/1913, pp. 95-108 (https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/...)
Leonard Skinner and Robert Verhoeven, Alexander Alekhine's Chess Games 1902-1946, McFarland 1998, pp. 765-766.

Original collection: Game Collection: Stockholm 1912 (Nordic Chess Congress), by User: Phony Benoni. Introduction written and sourced by User: WCC Editing Project and User: Tabanus.

Previous: Nordic Congress, Gothenburg (1909) (5th Congress of the Nordic Chess Federation). Next: Nordic Congress, Copenhagen (1916) (7th Congress of the Nordic Chess Federation)

 page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 55  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. V Sjoberg vs Alekhine 0-1351912Nordic Congress, StockholmA84 Dutch
2. G Nyholm vs Spielmann  ½-½441912Nordic Congress, StockholmB01 Scandinavian
3. G Marco vs H W Langborg  1-0301912Nordic Congress, StockholmC78 Ruy Lopez
4. J Fridlizius vs E Cohn  0-1411912Nordic Congress, StockholmC77 Ruy Lopez
5. J Giersing vs Olland 1-0221912Nordic Congress, StockholmC54 Giuoco Piano
6. Alekhine vs G Marco 1-0321912Nordic Congress, StockholmC41 Philidor Defense
7. H W Langborg vs J Fridlizius  1-0291912Nordic Congress, StockholmC53 Giuoco Piano
8. F Englund vs G Nyholm  0-1631912Nordic Congress, StockholmA07 King's Indian Attack
9. Spielmann vs J Giersing  1-0491912Nordic Congress, StockholmC29 Vienna Gambit
10. Olland vs V Sjoberg  1-0781912Nordic Congress, StockholmB49 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation
11. J Giersing vs F Englund  0-1211912Nordic Congress, StockholmC26 Vienna
12. V Sjoberg vs Spielmann 0-1221912Nordic Congress, StockholmC01 French, Exchange
13. E Cohn vs H W Langborg  ½-½421912Nordic Congress, StockholmC84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
14. G Marco vs Olland  1-0491912Nordic Congress, StockholmC14 French, Classical
15. J Fridlizius vs Alekhine 1-0411912Nordic Congress, StockholmC77 Ruy Lopez
16. Olland vs J Fridlizius 1-0591912Nordic Congress, StockholmC78 Ruy Lopez
17. Spielmann vs G Marco  1-0421912Nordic Congress, StockholmC02 French, Advance
18. G Nyholm vs J Giersing  0-1691912Nordic Congress, StockholmC77 Ruy Lopez
19. F Englund vs V Sjoberg  0-1401912Nordic Congress, StockholmA07 King's Indian Attack
20. Alekhine vs E Cohn 1-0571912Nordic Congress, StockholmC45 Scotch Game
21. E Cohn vs Olland  1-0471912Nordic Congress, StockholmD32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
22. G Marco vs F Englund  1-0251912Nordic Congress, StockholmC41 Philidor Defense
23. V Sjoberg vs G Nyholm  0-1331912Nordic Congress, StockholmD32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
24. J Fridlizius vs Spielmann 1-0391912Nordic Congress, StockholmC78 Ruy Lopez
25. H W Langborg vs Alekhine  0-1291912Nordic Congress, StockholmC53 Giuoco Piano
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jan-09-14  Karpova: Some information from Georg Marco's report:

In January 1912 at Abbazia (1912), Gustav Nyholm, the representative of the Stockholm Chess Federation at the Gambit Tournament, handed an invitation to Georg Marco to the VIIth Congress of the Nordic Chess Federation in Stockholm from the brothers Gustav and Ludwig Collijn.

Georg was pondering the question whether to accept the invitation or not and finally, on June 20, he began his journey to the North after 5 years of absence from tournaments - overall, his 25th tournament journey. He was the only one travelling from Austria. In Berlin, he met Erich Cohn and Rudolf Spielmann in the cabin. They met with the other participants in Stockholm on June 23. There were Fritz Englund, Hugo W Langborg, Gustav Nyholm, the famous problemist Joel Fridlizius, V Sjöberg from Ystad, a cunning man you cannot be too careful with (<glatter als ein Aal und geriebener als zehn Armenier>), chess-wise, for sure. J Giersing of Copenhagen, who always defends Denmark's flag masterly, although his profession as an advocate (<Oberrechtsanwalt> which indicates a higher function) does not leave him much time for practice. The nice Dr. A G Olland of Utrecht, and finally Alekhine <ein Jüngling noch an Jahren, aber ein Greis an Wissen.> (~ young regarding years of his life, old regarding knowledge).

The Congress commenced on june 24 and the drawing of lots for Master, Main and Minor tournaments took place: 1) Englund 2) Nyholm 3) Giersing 4) Sjöberg 5) Marco 6) Fridlizius 7) Cohn 8) Langborg 9) Alekhine 10) Olland 11) Spielmann. Marco had actually drawn the 12 and Freymann (St.Petersburg) the 5, but as Freymann didn't appear, Marco got the 5 - now, Marco had Black against Alekhine, Cohn and Spielmann, while else he would have had White.

Elected to the arbitration panel were Ludvig Collijn, Georg Marco, Dr. Olland, J Giersing, Jarl Uggla, J A Brekke and Joel Fridlizius.

The play commenced on Tuesday, June 26 (a typo in the original <26. Juli>), 11 am. 5 Continental and 6 Nordic masters participated in the Master Tournament. 16 amateurs participated in the Main Tournament, and there were 2 Minor Tournaments with 12 participants each.

Prizes in the Master Tournament (in swedish Crowns):

1. Alekhine 700
2. E Cohn 500
3. G Marco 400
4. A G Olland 300
5. R Spielmann 250
6. H W Langberg 200

Joel Fridlizius received the Brilliancy prize (100 K) for his win over Alekhine by Mr. R Sahlberg. Furthermore, 20 K were awarded for every won game, i. e. 960 K for 48 wins (55 games overall).

The Main Tournament (15 rounds):

1. A Larsson 10.5
2-3. T Relfson 10.0
2-3. H Ljunggren 10.0
4. A C M Pritzel 9.5
5-6. O Löwenborg 9.0
5-6. T Aalheim 9.0
7. H C Christoffersen 8.5
8-9. E Jacobsen 8.0
8-9. H Wickström 8.0
10. J A Brekke (Christiana) 7.5
11. A Olson (Stockholm) 6.5
12. G Dahl (Stockholm) 6.0
13. J Uggla (Helsingfors) 5.0
14-15. E A Björklund (Helsingfors) 4.5
14-15. L Hald (Copenhagen) 4.5
16. J A Ros (Boden) 3.5

For the 82 won games, 820 K playing fees were paid.

Prizes (in <K>): A Larsson (Göteborg) 150 (he was awarded the <Ehrenpreis> of the King of Sweden and the <1. Kreis>), T Relfson (Jönköping) and H Ljunggren (Göteborg) shared 150 + 100, A C M Pritzel (Copenhagen) 60, O Löwenborg (Stockholm) and T Aalheim (Christiana) shared 50 + 40, H C Christoffersen (Christiana) 30, E Jacobsen (Stockholm) and H Wickström (Lund) shared 25.

Source: Pages 1-9 of the January-February 1913 'Wiener Schachzeitung'

Feb-07-16  TheFocus: Prizes for Stockholm:

1,000, 670, 530, 400, 330 and 270 francs.

See <American Chess Bulletin>, September 1912, pg. 207.

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