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Paris, France; 17 May 1900—19 June 1900
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Score Place/Prizes
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1 Lasker •• 1 1 0 1 ½½ ½1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 14½ 1st 5000₣†
2 Pillsbury 0 •• 1 0 0 1 1 ½1 1 1 ½½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 12½ 2nd 2500₣†
3 Maroczy 0 0 •• 1 0 ½½ 1 1 ½½ 1 1 1 ½1 ½1 1 1 1 12 3rd-4th 1750₣†
4 Marshall 1 1 0 •• 1 ½½ 1 1 ½½ 0 0 1 ½1 1 1 1 1 12 3rd-4th 1750₣†
5 Burn 0 1 1 0 •• ½0 ½0 1 1 1 0 ½1 + 1 1 1 1 11 5th 1500₣
6 Chigorin ½½ 0 ½½ ½½ ½1 •• 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 10½ 6th 1000₣
7 Marco ½0 0 0 0 ½1 0 •• 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 7th-8th 300₣
8 Mieses 0 ½0 0 0 0 1 0 •• ½1 1 1 ½1 1 1 ½1 1 ½1 10 7th-8th 300₣
9 Schlechter 0 0 ½½ ½½ 0 1 0 ½0 •• 1 ½1 1 ½1 1 1 1 1 10
10 Janowski 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 •• 1 ½1 1 1 1 1 1 9
11 Showalter 0 ½½ 0 1 1 1 0 0 ½0 0 •• ½½ ½1 1 1 1 1 9
12 Mason 0 0 0 0 ½0 0 0 ½0 0 ½0 ½½ •• 1 ½0 ½1 ½1 1 4½
13 Brody 0 0 ½0 ½0 - 0 0 0 ½0 0 0 0 •• ½1 1 1 1 4
14 Rosen 0 0 ½0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½1 ½0 •• 0 ½1 ½1 3
15 Mortimer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½0 0 0 0 ½0 0 1 •• 1 0 2
16 Didier 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½0 0 ½0 0 •• 1 1
17 Sterling 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½0 0 0 0 0 0 ½0 1 0 •• 1
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† Top four finishers also received Sèvres vases.
Note: + indicates a forfeit win, - indicates a forfeit loss.
Format: First drawn game did not count, second game counted.
Time Control: 30 moves first 2 hours, 15 moves per hour thereafter.
Prizes: The only tie-break was by number of wins, hence Schlechter did not qualify.
Introduction
As early as 1851, master chess tournaments had been organized to be played during World's Fairs and Exhibitions. The cities that hosted many of these tournaments that later became famous for their strength and importance included London in 1851 and 1862, Vienna in 1873, and Philadelphia in 1876, but it was Paris that hosted the most, with three tournaments during three Exhibitions, in 1867, 1878, and finally in 1900. This last Exhibition proved to be the final time that an international chess tournament would be organized, after two World Fairs had been held without chess tournaments, in Paris in 1889 and in Chicago in 1893. The tournament of Paris in 1900 was held from May 17th until June 20th in the Grand Cercle. A significant portion of Paris was used for the World's Fair as the first Metro line was connected to the exhibition area. Among the participants to the tournament were Emanuel Lasker (World Champion), Harry Nelson Pillsbury (winner of Hastings (1895)), and James Mason (winner of 4th American Chess Congress, Philadelphia (1876)). This tournament also marked the international debut of the American chess master Frank James Marshall. Every draw had to be replayed once, with the chess masters switching colors, and the result of the replayed game standing as the final score of the encounter, win, lose, or draw. Lasker triumphed in one of his greatest tournament victories, drawing quickly against Mikhail Chigorin in the final round to secure first place and losing only one game to the twenty-two year old Marshall. Marshall enjoyed great success at Paris with a shared third with Geza Maróczy behind second place Pillsbury, and he would go on to challenge Lasker for the world title seven years later. The top four places also received Sèvres vases, which was a tradition from prize ceremonies during Paris 1867 and 1878, a tradition which sadly ended with this, the last of the World's Fair tournaments.
Additional Prizes
Rothschild Brilliancy Prize Games:
1st 500₣ (francs) to Mieses for J Mieses vs Janowski, 1900
2nd 300₣ to Chigorin for Chigorin vs J Mortimer, 1900
Note
Two consultation games were also played as a special event of the tournament:
Brody / Rosen vs Pillsbury / Fazy, 1900
Maroczy / Showalter vs Burn / Mieses, 1900
Sources
Original collection: Game Collection: Paris 1900, by User: suenteus po 147
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Dec-03-13
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| Dec-03-13 | | RookFile: Marshall defeats both Lasker and Pillsbury in this event. |
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Mar-27-17
 | | MissScarlett: <(Note: crosstable displays only final results, not unplayed draws)> What's an unplayed draw? |
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Mar-27-17
 | | jnpope: I suspect the submitter meant to say that "initial draws" are not shown. At Paris 1900, if a game was drawn it did not count and a second game had to be played. The second game, if drawn, did count. Someone should redo/reformat the crosstable with the complete results (IMO). |
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| Mar-27-17 | | zanzibar: In ZanBase the non-scoring draws are scored as "*" results in the PGN. That allows SCID and other software to render the correct xtabs automatically. I've advocated for this convention to be adopted more broadly, perhaps with a comment in each game's PGN. So far I think ZanBase is unique in this aspect. (The PGN standard should be extended to actually allow arbitrary point assignments for each game - perhaps even for each player. That might be too much to hope for, but the "*"-convention is there already, if one wishes to utilize it.) |
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| Mar-28-17 | | zanzibar: Here's a direct link to the xtab from Rosenthal's 1901 tb: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt... (Thanks, as always, to <Calli> for the tb collection) |
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| Mar-28-17 | | zanzibar: It would be nice to remove the consultation entries from the player list. I have some thoughts about how to handle all this, by now, quite ancient history on Zanchess. Too bad <CG> didn't follow along to clean all this up. At the least, <CG> might adopt a systematic convention on consultation pairings: M Brody / L Rosen vs. A Burn + J Mieses . |
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Mar-28-17
 | | perfidious: A crosstable to make Petrosian or Giri quail in horror: so few draws! |
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| Jun-06-17 | | TheFocus: <jnpope: I suspect the submitter meant to say that "initial draws" are not shown. At Paris 1900, if a game was drawn it did not count and a second game had to be played. The second game, if drawn, did count.
Someone should redo/reformat the crosstable with the complete results (IMO).> I agree. The cross-table should reflect the initial draws where applicable. |
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| Jun-06-17 | | TheFocus: First Brilliancy Prize and 500 francs went to Mieses for his game against Janowski. Second Brilliancy Prize and 300 francs went to Chigorin for his game against Mortimer. |
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| Jun-10-17 | | zanzibar: Before there was Rogoff, there was
<
Rule #14
Political and religious discussion are interdicted, under the penalty of immediate exclusion. >
BDE 1900-02-12 p14
https://bklyn.newspapers.com/The%20... . |
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| Apr-21-18 | | zanzibar: A Getty high-quality photograph of all the contestants: https://www.gettyimages.com/license...
(A search on <Paris 1900 chess> fails, but <Paris 1900 schach> succeeds) |
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| Apr-21-18 | | rgr459: Mssr Didier was cannon-fodder |
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Apr-22-18
 | | offramp: A phrase to freeze the blood of every right-minded chess historian:
<Draws were replayed>. |
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| Apr-22-18 | | zanzibar: <<offramp> A phrase to freeze the blood of every right-minded chess historian:
<Draws were replayed>.> It's not so bad, if one goes *-y-eyes. |
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| Apr-22-18 | | zanzibar: The real trouble begins when draws are replayed the first time, and scored 1/4-point the next. |
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| Dec-10-18 | | Saniyat24: Lasker pummeled them...! |
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Jan-27-19
| | jnpope: As near as I can identify:
Seated (left to right):
1. Marco;
2. Mieses;
3. Schlechter;
4. Rosen;
5. Weiss;
6. Maroczy;
7. Barteling;
8. Brody;
9. Pillsbury;
10. Showalter;
11. de Weerth;
Standing (left to right):
12. de Riviere;
13. Bartmann;
14. NN;
15. Kriegeskotte;
16. NN;
17. Marshall;
18. NN
19. NN;
20. Janowski;
21. Chigorin;
Can anyone identify individuals 14, 16, 18 or 19? Louis Barteling and Isidore Weiss were professional French checker players. I haven't been able to get better identifications on de Weerth and Kriegeskotte, but they may have been amateur chess/salta players from Germany. Kriegeskotte shows up in the index to Richard Forster's book on Amos Burn (sadly I do not own a copy yet). <zanzibar: A Getty high-quality photograph of all the contestants:
https://www.gettyimages.com/license...
(A search on <Paris 1900 chess> fails, but <Paris 1900 schach> succeeds)> |
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| Jan-27-19 | | login:
From left: de Riviere, Marco, Bartmann, Alieses, Kriegeskotte, Schlechter, Rosen, Marshall, Weiss, Maroczy, Barteling, Brody, Pillsbury, Showalter, Janowski, de Weerth, Tschigorin Labeling 'ullstein Bild'
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Jan-27-19
| | jnpope: <login>: The data from the Getty website is not a very trustworthy source (i.e. Alieses). There was no "Alieses" playing in the 1900 Paris Salta tournament, however, Jacques Mieses was a participant. And they only bother listing 17 of the 21 names without a proper identification key, leaving four people in the photograph unidentified. |
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| Jan-27-19 | | zanzibar: <login> what does <'ullstein Bild'> mean? (??? picture) Oh, maybe this:
https://www.ullsteinbild.de/
?? I couldn't find the picture there, but are we to assume you did and they gave the labeling in your post? Is anything publicly available there?
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Jul-09-22
 | | Chessical: "S. Rosenthal reports in the 'Monde Illustre' that the 1900 Paris Tournament will begin on May 15 and will be held in the Grande Cercle des Echecs (16, Boulevard Montmartre). The Tournament Committee through Achille Farnin, the deputy for Pas de Calais, addressed (President) Loubet, who donated, as honorary awards, some works of art from state-owned factories. Baron Albert Rothschild donated 800 francs to award the most beautiful games. Cash subscriptions have so far reached 16,000 francs." Source: (Neue) Wiener Schachzeitung, No.1 January 1900, p.13. 16,000 francs was at 25 Francs to the pound worth £640 or approximately £83,000/$100,000 in 2022 values. 800 Francs was worth £32 or approximately or £4,150/$50,000 in 2022 values. |
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Mar-03-23
 | | mifralu: < The prizes were won by the following masters: I. prize, 5000 francs, E. Lasker; II. prize, 2500 francs, H. N. Pillsbury; III. and IV. prize, 3500 francs, shared by G. Maroczy and Marshall; V. prize, 1500 francs, A. Burn; VI. prize, 1000 francs, M. Tschigorin; VII. and VIII. prize, 400 and 200 francs, shared by G. Marco and J. Mieses. The first four received not only cash prizes but also non-cash prizes. > https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/... |
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