Spielmann won against Benzinger, Laubmann, Harrasser, Vogt and L Schmitt*.

He drew against Baumann, Gebhard**, Dr. Ottensaser, Springe*** and Stiegler.

The whole event took 8 hours, the games had to be adjourned after the first 5 hour-part.

From page 45 of the February 1925 'Neue Wiener Schachzeitung'

* Ludwig Schmitt

** Hans Gebhardt

Source: Pages 102-103 of the May-June 1915 'Wiener Schachzeitung'.

Drew Krautstengl, Lederer and Scheller.

Lost to Bodansky, Kollin, Rudl, Schenk and Scholze (the winner of the Prague 1912/13 Winter tournament).

1. Spielmann 8.5
2. Tartakower 8.0
3. Forgacs 7.5
4-5. von Balla 6.0
4-5. Marco 6.0
6-7. Breyer 5.5
6-7. Brody 5.5
8-9. Asztalos 5.0
8-9. Vidmar 5.0
10. Reti 3.5
11. Barasz 3.0
12. Sterk 2.5

Prizes (in <K>): Spielmann 1000, Tartakower 700, Forgacs 500, von Balla 300*, Marco 300*, Breyer 125**, Brody 125**

* (250 + 350)/2
** (150 + 100)/2

Spielmann scored +6 -0 =5 and Dr. Tartakower also remained undefeated (+5 -0 =6).

Szekely was also a participant but then withdrew and that's why he is missing from the crosstable.

All three, Spielmann, Dr. Tartakower and Forgacs, had chances for 1st place during the course of the tournament. Breyer began strongly but languished too soon. Brody instead put up a steady performance and his games with Black, where he employed the Sicilian, are said to be notable.

Hauptmann: <Was sind Sie?> (What are you?)

Spielmann: <Schachspieler.> (Chessplayer.)

Hauptmann: <Ich meine, welchen Beruf sie haben?> (I mean, what's your profession?)

Spielmann: <Ich bin Schachmeister.> (I'm a chessmaster.)

Hauptmann: <Als Beruf? Ja, gibt es das auch? Kann man denn davon leben?> (As a profession? That exists also? Can you make a living doing that?)

Spielmann: <Ja, wenn man es sehr gut kann, dann schon.> (Yes, if you are very good, then yes.)

Hauptmann: <So wir werden Sie zur Festungsartillerie geben, vielleicht können Sie da etwas von Ihren Fähigkeiten verwerten.> (So we will give you to the fortress artillery, perhaps you can put your skills to good use there.)

Pages 26-27 of the January-February 1913 'Wiener Schachzeitung'

and

Pages 89-92 of the March-April 1913 'Wiener Schachzeitung'

with round numbers, etc... More on it later, but here is the final crosstable of the double round robin tournament:

1. Spielmann 11.0
2. Tartakower 10.5
3. Reti 9.5
4. Schlechter 8.0
5. Perlis 6.5
6. Löwy 6.0
7. Schenkein 2.5
8. Kaufmann 2.0

A very strong tournament, yet Spielmann scored +9 -1 =4. Dr. Tartakower scored +8 -1 =5, Reti +6 -1 =7 and Schlechter +3 -1 =10.

On March 1, 1913, the founding day of the Vienna Chess Club had its 25th anniversary and this was the reason for the Master Tournament to commence on March 17.

The lots were drawn: 1) Leopold Löwy, 2) Carl Schlechter, 3) Joachim Schenkein, 4) Richard Reti, 5) Dr. Julius Perlis, 6) Dr. Savielly Tartakower, 7) Dr. Arthur Kaufmann, 8) Rudolf Spielmann.

The prizes, under utilisation of the money from the returns of the <Leopold Trebitsch-Stiftung> also, were 1000, 700, 500, 400, 300 and 200 <Kronen>.

Games are played on every day of the week, except for Thursdays where adjourned games are resumed. Play begins at 1000 and lasts until 1400, and from 1630 to 2030.

In case of a future tournament page, here are the round dates (from both articles):

Round 1: 1913.03.17
Round 2: 1913.03.18
Round 3: 1913.03.19
Round 4: 1913.03.21
Round 5: 1913.03.22
Round 6: 1913.03.25
Round 7: 1913.03.26
Round 8: 1913.03.28
Round 9: 1913.03.29
Round 10: 1913.03.31
Round 11: 1913.04.01
Round 12: 1913.04.02
Round 13: 1913.04.04
Round 14: 1913.04.05

Notes:

At the end of the 6th round paragraph is written, that the playing start time was changed to 1600 (playing time 1600 to 2000) and adjourned games had to be resumed the next day from 1000 to 1400. So it seems that the morning playing time was abolished and the morning only used for adjourned games.

Thursday, 1913.03.27, resumption of adjourned games (Reti beat Spielmann, Dr. Perlis beat Schenkein). Thereby, the 1st leg of the tournament ended.

1913.04.03, resumption of adjourned games (Reti beat Dr. Kaufmann, Löwy drew Dr. Perlis, Dr. Kaufmann drew Dr. Tartakower).

On Monday, 1913.04.07, the last round adjourned games were finished.

< "Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine." >

The mistake stems from page 107 of Chernev’s 'The Bright Side of Chess', where two unattributed quotes are followed by a quote from Spielmann.

I cite Edward Winter: <It is evident from other parts of this chapter of Chernev’s that when he gave, for instance, two unattributed quotations followed by an attributed one it was only the last of these that he intended to ascribe to the writer named.> C.N. 3160 in http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

In this case, it looks like this:

<Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.>

<From Anderssen I learned the art of making combinations; from Tarrasch I learned how advantageously to avoid making them.>

<Spielmann>

<The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed[, and not without good reason,] according to the sacrifices it contains.> Spielmann, "The Art of Sacrifice in Chess"

More then 10 years before Réti wrote in his "Die neuen Ideen im Schachspiel": <Der Laie bewundert im Schach am meisten die Opferkombination.> (The layman admires in chess the sacrifices most.)

<Spielmanns Stil ist von einer Eigenart, die man bei keinem anderen Meister wiederfindet. Mit einfachsten Mitteln weiß er Verwicklungen herbeizuführen und aus ihnen überraschende Vorteile zu ziehen.>

(Spielmann's style is of a pecularity, you cannot find in any other master. With simplest means he knows to bring about complications and to draw surprising advantages from them.)

He faced Dr. Tartakower first (November 2 to 9), winning 3.5-2.5.

Soon afterwards, he beat Reti 4.5-0.5.

Finally, he beat Dr. Perlis 3.0-2.0.