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Overview of the events of 1941 in chess
Below is a list of events in
chess in the year 1941.
Chess events in brief
Basic Chess Endings by
Reuben Fine was published.
29 August 1941 –
Gideon Ståhlberg played a 400-game
simultaneous exhibition in Buenos Aires; 364 wins, 14 draws, 22 losses.
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8–14 September 1941 – Europaturnier held in Munich, was organised by
Ehrhardt Post , the Chief Executive of Nazi Grossdeutscher Schachbund .
Max Euwe had declined the invitation for München 1941 due to his "occupational obligations", as manager of a groceries business. This time he refused to participate, because
Alexander Alekhine was invited. Euwe mentioned futile reasons. The real motive was Alekhine's offence of Euwe in his anti-Semitic articles.
[2] Alekhine wrote six Nazi articles which first appeared in the Paris newspaper
Pariser Zeitung in March 1941. He wrote a series of articles for the
Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden called "Jewish and Aryan Chess." The articles were reproduced in Deutsch Schachzeitung .
[3] Among others, Alekhine had written about the "Jewish clique" around Euwe in
World Chess Championship 1935 .
The
Munich 1941 chess tournament was won by
Gösta Stoltz , who scored a spectacular victory (1½ points ahead of Alekhine and
Erik Lundin ), and won 1,000 Reichsmarks. His trophy (donated by the Ministerpräsident
Ludwig Siebert ) of
Meissen porcelain is worth close to $1,000.
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Tournaments
Sydney (the New South Wales championship), won by
Lajos Steiner ahead of
Gary Koshnitsky and
Cecil Purdy , 1940/41.
Beverwijk (the 4th Hoogovenschaaktoernoi ) won by
Arthur Wijnans , January 1941.
Lviv won by
Eduard Gerstenfeld ahead of
Izaak Appel ,
Henryk Friedman ,
Emanuel Rubinstein and
Izaak Schächter , January/February 1941.
Groningen won by
Salo Landau
Baarn won by
Max Euwe ahead of
Hans Kmoch
Amsterdam won by Euwe ahead of
Nicolaas Cortlever
Mar del Plata won by
Gideon Ståhlberg followed by
Miguel Najdorf ,
Erich Eliskases , etc., March 1941.
Leningrad /Moscow (the Soviet Absolute Championship), won by
Mikhail Botvinnik followed by
Paul Keres ,
Vasily Smyslov ,
Isaac Boleslavsky ,
Andor Lilienthal , and
Igor Bondarevsky , March 23 – April 29, 1941.
Moscow (the
Moscow City Chess Championship ), won by
Alexander Kotov
Riga (the 1st Soviet
Latvian Chess Championship ), won by
Alexander Koblencs ahead of
Fricis Apšenieks
Vilnius (the 1st Soviet
Lithuanian Chess Championship ), won by
Isakas Vistaneckis .
Tallinn (the
Estonian Chess Championship ), won by
Johannes Türn and
Feliks Kibbermann .
Bucaramanga (the
Colombian Chess Championship ), won by
Miguel Cuéllar
Buenos Aires (Bodas de Plata), won by Ståhlberg and Najdorf, followed by
Paulino Frydman ,
Paul Michel ,
Carlos Guimard ,
Hermann Pilnik , etc.
Buenos Aires won by Frydman ahead of
Moshe Czerniak
Buenos Aires won by Najdorf followed by Czerniak, Pilnik, Michel, etc.
Montevideo won by Erich Eliskases followed by
Markas Luckis ,
Ludwig Engels ,
Héctor Rossetto , etc., May 1941.
Hamburg won by
Klaus Junge and
Herbert Heinicke
Bad Elster won by Junge ahead of
Rudolf Palme and
Erich Weinitschke , start 11 May 1941.
Graz won by Heinicke and Poschauko, start 15 June 1941.
São Pedro won by Eliskases and Guimard, followed by Engels, Frydman, Luckis,
Mariano Castillo ,
Aristide Gromer ,
Julio Bolbochán , etc., 2–26 July 1941.
Krefeld won by
Efim Bogoljubow , 5–12 July 1941.
Bad Oeynhausen (the 8th
German Chess Championship ), won by
Paul Felix Schmidt and Junge, followed by
Kurt Richter ,
Hans Müller ,
Georg Kieninger , etc., start 3 August 1941.
Ventnor City won by
Jacob Levin ahead of
Fred Reinfeld
St. Louis (the 42nd
U.S. Open ), won by
Reuben Fine ahead of
Herman Steiner , July 1941.
Hamilton (New York State Chess Association Championship), won by Fine ahead of
Arnold Denker ,
Isaac Kashdan and
Samuel Reshevsky , 16–23 August 1941.
New York City (Marshall Chess Club Championship), won by Fine followed by
Frank Marshall ,
Sidney Bernstein , Reinfeld,
Herbert Seidman ,
Edward Lasker , etc.
Kalmar won by
Rudolf Spielmann
Madrid (the
Spanish Chess Championship , Challenge), won by
Ramón Rey Ardid
Paris (the
French Chess Championship ), won by
Robert Crépeaux
Florence won by
Vincenzo Castaldi and
Stefano Rosselli del Turco
Budapest (the
Hungarian Chess Championship ), won by
Géza Füster ahead of
Gedeon Barcza and
Pál Réthy
Prague (Kautsky Memorial), won by
Karel Opočenský ahead of
Miroslav Katětov and
Karel Treybal
Prague won by
František Zíta
Česká Třebová won by Emil Richter
Brno won by Florian and
Friedrich Sämisch
Trenčianske Teplice won by
Jan Foltys ahead of
József Szily and
Ludovit Potuček
Holešov won by Foltys
Mährisch-Ostrau won by Foltys
Gothenburg (the
Swedish Chess Championship ), won by
Erik Lundin ahead of
Gösta Stoltz and
Olof Kinnmark
Munich (the 2nd Europaturnier ), won by Stoltz ahead of Lundin and
Alexander Alekhine , Bogoljubow,
Bjørn Nielsen ,
Kurt Richter , Foltys, etc., 8–14 September 1941.
Kraków /
Warsaw (the 2nd
GG-ch ), won by Alekhine and Schmidt, 5–19 October 1941.
Winnipeg (the 45th
Canadian Chess Championship ), won by
Daniel Yanofsky , October 1941.
Kraków (Championship of the city), won by
Paul Mross , November 1941.
Moscow (the
Moscow City Chess Championship ), won by
Isaak Mazel ahead of
Vladimirs Petrovs , 1941/42.
Matches
Team matches
(Asztalos 01 Rohaček; Rabar 1½ Potuček; Tekavčić 11 Ujtelky; Šubarić 11 Pazman; Jerman 0½ Miština; M.Filipčić 00 Lauda; Petek 11 Štulir; B.Filipčić ½½ Stanek)
[6]
Births
14 January –
Oscar Quiñones in Lima, Peruvian chess player
25 April –
Raymond Weinstein in Brooklyn, American chess player
3 May –
Nona Gaprindashvili in Zugdidi, Georgia,
Women's World Champion (1962–1978), first female GM
16 June –
Tõnu Õim in Tallinn, Estonian correspondence GM
2 August –
Jacob Murey in Moscow, Israeli GM
11 August –
Alla Kushnir in Moscow, Israeli WGM, several-time challenger for the Women's Championship
3 October –
Victor Palciauskas in Kaunas, American correspondence GM, World Correspondence Champion 1978–1984
10 September –
Rosendo Balinas Jr. , Filipino GM
13 December –
Bessel Kok , Dutch chess organizer
30 December –
Bruno Parma in Ljubljana, Slovene/Yugoslav GM
Deaths
Jakub Kolski died of starvation in the
Warsaw Ghetto .
Izaak Towbin died in the
Warsaw Ghetto .
Leon Kremer died in the
General Government .
Josef Cukierman committed suicide in France.
Konstantin Vygodchikov died in Belarus.
František Treybal died in the
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
11 January –
Emanuel Lasker died in Manhattan, New York.
World Chess Champion in the period 1894–1921.
25 April –
Fricis Apšenieks died of tuberculosis in Riga.
Latvian champion 1926/27 and 1934.
2 May –
Ignatz von Popiel died in Lviv.
after 22 June –
Izaak Appel disappeared and probably died in a Nazi concentration camp, the
District Galicia of
General Government .
12 July –
Charles Jaffe died in Brooklyn, New York. Former New York State champion and chess editor.
13 July –
Ilmar Raud died of starvation in Buenos Aires, Argentina (in exile).
Estonian champion in 1934 and 1939.
August –
Aron Zabłudowski killed by Nazis in Białystok, Poland.
3 September –
Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky died, according to the Soviet official sources, on Lake Ladoga on a ship in a German air raid (he was the only one killed on the barge, which was displaying Red Cross flags) during the
Siege of Leningrad , but is believed by some to have fallen victim to the Stalinist repression as the majority of the Old Guard of revolutionists. Three-time
Leningrad City champion in 1925 (jointly), 1926 and 1929.
27 September –
Juan Corzo died in Havana.
Cuban champion in 1898, 1902, 1907, 1912, and 1918.
2 October –
Karel Treybal arrested on 30 May, imprisoned and later charged with concealing weapons for use by resistance forces and the illegal possession of a pistol. He was condemned to death and executed by the Nazis in Prague, the
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia .
3 October –
Frederick Hamilton-Russell died in Cleobury North, England. President of
British Chess Federation .
16 October –
Antanas Gustaitis was caught attempting to cross the border on 4 March, arrested by
NKVD , and taken to Moscow where he was shot.
Lithuanian champion in 1922.
29 December –
Boris Koyalovich died during the siege of Leningrad.
29 December –
Vsevolod Rauzer died during the siege of Leningrad.
Ukrainian champion in 1927 and 1933 (jointly).
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