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Events in chess in 1941
Chess events in brief - Basic Chess Endings by Reuben Fine was published.
- 29 August 1941 - Gideon St hlberg played a 400 game simultaneous exhibition in Buenos Aires; 364 wins, 14 draws, 22 losses.[1]
- 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 M nchen 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 Die 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 G sta Stoltz, who scored a spectacular victory (1 points ahead of Alekhine and Erik Lundin), and won 1,000 Reichsmarks. His trophy (donated by the Ministerpr sident Ludwig Siebert) of Meissen porcelain is worth close to $1,000.[4] 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.
- Lvov won by Eduard Gerstenfeld ahead of Izaak Appel, Henryk Friedman, Emanuel Rubinstein and Izaak Sch chter, 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 Stahlberg 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 Ap enieks
- Vilnius (the 1st Soviet Lithuanian Chess Championship), won by Isakas Vistaneckis.
- Tallinn (the Estonian Chess Championship), won by Johannes T rn and Feliks Kibbermann.
- Bucaramanga (the Colombian Chess Championship), won by Miguel Cu llar
- Buenos Aires (Bodas de Plata), won by Stahlberg and Najdorf, followed by Paulino Frydman, Paul Michel, Carlos Guimard, Herman 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, H ctor 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.
- Sao Pedro won by Eliskases and Guimard, followed by Engels, Frydman, Luckis, Mariano Castillo, Aristide Gromer, Julio Bolboch n, 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 M ller, 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 (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 Ram n Rey Ardid
- Paris (the French Chess Championship), won by Robert Cr peaux
- Florence won by Vincenzo Castaldi and Stefano Rosselli del Turco
- Budapest (the Hungarian Chess Championship), won by G za F ster ahead of Gedeon Barcza and P l R thy
- Prague (Kautsky Memorial), won by Karel Opo ensk ahead of Miroslav Kat tov and Karel Treybal
- Prague won by Franti ek Z ta
- esk T ebov won by Emil Richter
- Brno won by Florian and Friedrich S misch
- Tren ianske Teplice won by Jan Foltys ahead of J zsef Szily and Ludovit Potu ek
- Hole ov won by Foltys
- M hrisch-Ostrau won by Foltys
- Gothenburg (the Swedish Chess Championship), won by Erik Lundin ahead of G sta Stoltz and Olof Kinnmark
- Munich (the 2nd Europaturnier), won by Stoltz ahead of Lundin and Alexander Alekhine, Bogoljubow, Bj rn Nielsen, Kurt Richter, Foltys, etc., 8 14 September 1941.
- Krakow/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.
- Krakow (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 Roha ek; Rabar 1 Potu ek; Tekav i 11 Ujtelky; ubari 11 Pazman; Jerman 0 Mi tina; M.Filip i 00 Lauda; Petek 11 tulir; B.Filip i Stanek) [6] Births - 14 January Oscar Qui ones 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 T nu im 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.
- Franti ek 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 Ap enieks died of tuberculosis in Riga. Latvian champion 1926/27 and 1934.
- 2 May - Ignatz von Popiel died in Lvov.
- 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 Zab udowski killed by Nazis in Bialystok, 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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