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1941 in chess
List of years in chess (Table)
Table) • Beverwijk (the 4th Hoogovenschaaktoernoi) won by
Arthur Wijnans, January 1941.
… 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 • 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • • Lvov won by Eduard Gerstenfeld ahead of Izaak
1938 • 1939 • 1940 – 1941 – 1942 • 1943 • 1944 •
Appel, Henryk Friedman, Emanuel Rubinstein and
1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949 • 1950 • 1951 …
Izaak Schächter, January/February 1941.
Related time period or subjects • Groningen won by Salo Landau
… 1938 • 1939 • 1940 – 1941 – 1942 • 1943 • 1944 … • Baarn won by Max Euwe ahead of Hans Kmoch
… 1910s • 1920s • 1930s – 1940s – 1950s • 1960s • 1970s … • Amsterdam won by Euwe ahead of Nicolaas Cortlever
… 19th century – 20th century – 21st century … • Mar del Plata won by Gideon Stahlberg followed by
Miguel Najdorf, Erich Eliskases, etc., March 1941.
Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Science
more • Leningrad/Moscow (the Soviet Absolute
Championship), won by Mikhail Botvinnik followed
Events in chess in 1941 by Paul Keres, Vasily Smyslov, Isaac Boleslavsky,
Andor Lilienthal, and Igor Bondarevsky, March 23 -
April 29, 1941.
Chess events in brief • Moscow (the Moscow City Chess Championship),
• Basic Chess Endings by Reuben Fine was published. won by Alexander Kotov
• 29 August 1941 - Gideon Ståhlberg played a 400 game • Riga (the 1st Soviet Latvian Chess Championship),
simultaneous exhibition in Buenos Aires; 364 wins, won by Alexander Koblencs ahead of Fricis
14 draws, 22 losses.[1] Apšenieks
• 8–14 September 1941 - Europaturnier held in Munich, • Vilnius (the 1st Soviet Lithuanian Chess
was organised by Ehrhardt Post, the Chief Executive Championship), won by Isakas Vistaneckis.
of Nazi Grossdeutscher Schachbund. Max Euwe had • Tallinn (the Estonian Chess Championship), won by
declined the invitation for München 1941 due to his Johannes Türn and Feliks Kibbermann.
"occupational obligations", as manager of a groceries • Bucaramanga (the Colombian Chess Championship),
business. This time he refused to participate, because won by Miguel Cuéllar
Alexander Alekhine was invited. Euwe mentioned • Buenos Aires (Bodas de Plata), won by Stahlberg and
futile reasons. The real motive was Alekhine’s Najdorf, followed by Paulino Frydman, Paul Michel,
offence of Euwe in his anti-Semitic articles.[2] Carlos Guimard, Herman Pilnik, etc.
Alekhine wrote six Nazi articles which first appeared • Buenos Aires won by Frydman ahead of Moshe
in the Paris newspaper Pariser Zeitung in March 1941. Czerniak
He wrote a series of articles for Die Deutsche Zeitung in • Buenos Aires won by Najdorf followed by Czerniak,
den Niederlanden called "Jewish and Aryan Chess." Pilnik, Michel, etc.
The articles were reproduced in Deutsch • Montevideo won by Erich Eliskases followed by
Schachzeitung.[3] Among others, Alekhine had written Markas Luckis, Ludwig Engels, Héctor Rossetto, etc.,
about the "Jewish clique" around Euwe in World May 1941.
Chess Championship 1935. • Hamburg won by Klaus Junge and Herbert Heinicke
The Munich 1941 chess tournament was won by Gösta • Bad Elster won by Junge ahead of Rudolf Palme and
Stoltz, who scored a spectacular victory (1½ points ahead Erich Weinitschke, start 11 May 1941.
of Alekhine and Erik Lundin), and won 1,000 Reichs- • Graz won by Heinicke and Poschauko, start 15 June
marks. His trophy (donated by the Ministerpräsident Lud- 1941.
wig Siebert) of Meissen porcelain is worth close to • Sao Pedro won by Eliskases and Guimard, followed
$1,000.[4] by Engels, Frydman, Luckis, Mariano Castillo,
Aristide Gromer, Julio Bolbochán, etc., 2–26 July
1941.
Tournaments • Krefeld won by Efim Bogoljubow, 5–12 July 1941.
• Sydney (the New South Wales championship), won • Bad Oeynhausen (the 8th German Chess
by Lajos Steiner ahead of Gary Koshnitsky and Cecil Championship), won by Paul Felix Schmidt and
Purdy, 1940/41. Junge, followed by Kurt Richter, Hans Müller, Georg
Kieninger, etc., start 3 August 1941.
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• Ventnor City won by Jacob Levin ahead of Fred • Jan Foltys drew with Karel Opočenský (6 : 6) in
Reinfeld Prague.
• St. Louis (the 42nd U.S. Open), won by Reuben Fine • Samuel Reshevsky defeated Israel Albert Horowitz
ahead of Herman Steiner, July 1941. (9.5 : 6.5) in New York.
• Hamilton (New York State Chess Association • Carlos Guimard beat Carlos Maderna (8 : 1) in La
Championship), won by Fine ahead of Arnold Plata, Argentina.
Denker, Isaac Kashdan and Samuel Reshevsky, 16–23 • Albéric O’Kelly de Galway drew with Victor
August 1941. Soultanbeieff (1 : 1) in Belgium.[5]
• New York (Marshall Chess Club Championship), won
by Fine followed by Frank Marshall, Sidney
Bernstein, Reinfeld, Herbert Seidman, Edward
Team matches
Lasker, etc. • 7–8 December, Zagreb: Croatia vs. Slovakia 10-6
• Kalmar won by Rudolf Spielmann (4½-3½, 5½-2½)
• Madrid (the Spanish Chess Championship, (Asztalos 01 Rohaček; Rabar 1½ Potuček; Tekavčić 11
Challenge), won by Ramón Rey Ardid Ujtelky; Šubarić 11 Pazman; Jerman 0½ Miština; M.Filipčić
• Paris (the French Chess Championship), won by 00 Lauda; Petek 11 Štulir; B.Filipčić ½½ Stanek) [6]
Robert Crépeaux
• Florence won by Vincenzo Castaldi and Stefano
Rosselli del Turco
Births
• Budapest (the Hungarian Chess Championship), won • 14 January – Oscar Quiñones in Lima, Peruvian chess
by Géza Füster ahead of Gedeon Barcza and Pál Réthy player
• Prague (Kautsky Memorial), won by Karel Opočenský • 25 April – Raymond Weinstein in Brooklyn,
ahead of Miroslav Katětov and Karel Treybal American chess player
• Prague won by František Zíta • 3 May – Nona Gaprindashvili in Zugdidi, Georgia,
• Česká Třebová won by Emil Richter Women’s World Champion (1962–1978), first female
• Brno won by Florian and Friedrich Sämisch GM
• Trenčianske Teplice won by Jan Foltys ahead of • 16 June – Tõnu Õim in Tallinn, Estonian
József Szily and Ludovit Potuček correspondence GM
• Holešov won by Foltys • 2 August – Jacob Murey in Moscow, Israeli GM
• Mährisch-Ostrau won by Foltys • 11 August – Alla Kushnir in Moscow, Israeli WGM,
• Gothenburg (the Swedish Chess Championship), won several-time challenger for the Women’s
by Erik Lundin ahead of Gösta Stoltz and Olof Championship
Kinnmark • 3 October – Victor Palciauskas in Kaunas, American
• Munich (the 2nd Europaturnier), won by Stoltz ahead correspondence GM, World Correspondence
of Lundin and Alexander Alekhine, Bogoljubow, Champion 1978–1984
Bjørn Nielsen, Kurt Richter, Foltys, etc., 8–14 • 10 September – Rosendo Balinas, Jr., Filipino GM
September 1941. • 13 December – Bessel Kok, Dutch chess organizer
• Krakow/Warsaw (the 2nd GG-ch), won by Alekhine • 30 December – Bruno Parma in Ljubljana, Slovene/
and Schmidt, 5–19 October 1941. Yugoslav GM
• Winnipeg (the 45th Canadian Chess Championship),
won by Daniel Yanofsky, October 1941. Deaths
• Krakow (Championship of the City), won by Paul
Mross, November 1941. • Jakub Kolski died of starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto.
• Moscow (the Moscow City Chess Championship), • Izaak Towbin died in the Warsaw Ghetto.
won by Isaak Mazel ahead of Vladimirs Petrovs, • Leon Kremer died in the General Government.
1941/42. • Josef Cukierman committed suicide in France.
• Konstantin Vygodchikov died in Belarus.
• František Treybal died in the Protectorate of
Matches Bohemia and Moravia
• Max Euwe beat Efim Bogoljubow (6.5 : 3.5) in • 11 January – Emanuel Lasker died in Manhattan, New
Karlsbad, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. York. World Chess Champion in the period
• Paul Felix Schmidt beat Klaus Junge (3.5 : 0.5) in 1894-1921.
Bromberg, Germany. • 25 April – Fricis Apšenieks died of tuberculosis in
• Johannes Türn beat Feliks Kibbermann (3.5 : 0.5) in Riga. Latvian champion 1926/27 and 1934.
Tallinn, Estonia. • 2 May - Ignatz von Popiel died in Lvov.
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• after 22 June – Izaak Appel disappeared and probably • 16 October – Antanas Gustaitis was caught
died in a Nazi concentration camp, the District attempting to cross the border on 4 March, arrested
Galicia of General Government. by NKVD, and taken to Moscow where he was shot.
• 12 July – Charles Jaffe died in Brooklyn, New York. Lithuanian champion in 1922.
Former New York State champion and chess editor. • 29 December – Boris Koyalovich died during the
• 13 July – Ilmar Raud died of starvation in Buenos siege of Leningrad.
Aires, Argentina (in exile). Estonian champion in • 29 December – Vsevolod Rauzer died during the
1934 and 1939. siege of Leningrad. Ukrainian champion in 1927 and
• August - Aron Zabłudowski killed by Nazis in 1933 (jointly).
Bialystok, Poland.
• 3 September – Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky died,
according to the Soviet official sources, on Lake
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and executed by the Nazis in Prague, the
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
External links
• 3 October – Frederick Hamilton-Russell died in • 1941 crosstables
Cleobury North, England. President of British Chess
Federation.
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