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🏆 Semmering (1926)

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An international chess master tournament was organized and held at the Grand Hotel Panhas, in the Semmering Pass, south of Vienna, from March 7th to the 29th, 1926. The event was organized by ... [more]

Player: Savielly Tartakower

 page 1 of 1; 17 games  PGN Download 
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Tartakower vs S Rosselli del Turco 1-0571926SemmeringD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
2. K Treybal vs Tartakower  0-1531926SemmeringB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
3. Tartakower vs J Davidson 1-0301926SemmeringD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
4. Yates vs Tartakower  ½-½451926SemmeringB15 Caro-Kann
5. Tartakower vs Rubinstein ½-½521926SemmeringC68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange
6. Janowski vs Tartakower 0-1331926SemmeringD58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst
7. Tartakower vs W Michel 1-0301926SemmeringD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
8. Gruenfeld vs Tartakower 0-1411926SemmeringD21 Queen's Gambit Accepted
9. Tartakower vs Tarrasch 1-0341926SemmeringA52 Budapest Gambit
10. Vidmar vs Tartakower 1-0651926SemmeringD57 Queen's Gambit Declined, Lasker Defense
11. Tartakower vs Kmoch  1-0491926SemmeringE17 Queen's Indian
12. Reti vs Tartakower 1-0631926SemmeringA13 English
13. Tartakower vs A Vajda  1-0331926SemmeringD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
14. Tartakower vs Spielmann 0-1491926SemmeringD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
15. A Nimzowitsch vs Tartakower  ½-½301926SemmeringA04 Reti Opening
16. Tartakower vs Alekhine 0-1991926SemmeringC68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange
17. Gilg vs Tartakower 0-11021926SemmeringA40 Queen's Pawn Game
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Kibitzer's Corner
Oct-06-13  Karpova: Brilliancy Prizes:

Judge: Dr. Ossip Bernstein

- 1st prize (450 S) to Alekhine for Rubinstein vs Alekhine, 1926 and J Davidson vs Alekhine, 1926

- 2nd prize (225 S) to Dr. Tartakower for Tartakower vs Tarrasch, 1926

- Shared prizes (125 S each) to

Reti for Reti vs Gilg, 1926

Janowski for J Davidson vs Janowski, 1926

Rubinstein for W Michel vs Rubinstein, 1926

- Special prize (100 S) to Rubinstein for the most correct game (<die korrekteste Partie>) - Rubinstein vs Spielmann, 1926

Source: Page 286 of the September 1926 'Neue Wiener Schachzeitung'

May-04-21  BickeDag: An unfortunate tournament for Turco. He almost pulled a Moreau
May-05-21
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  perfidious: Too many of the participants came to an unfortunate end: Yates of asphyxia by gas, believe Vajda also suffered the same fate; Treybal perished at the hands of the Nazis; Reti of scarlet fever and Janowski of tuberculosis, this last within a year of this event.

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