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LXGILM1914ATIR

Mannheim 1914 and the Interned Russians

525 pages, clothbound, The Chess Player, 1. edition 2014

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94 games (the other 5 are lost) from the Masters’ Tournament at Mannheim which was broken off when World War 1 began, with extensive notes. Alekhine won ahead of Vidmar, Spielmann, Breyer, Marshall, Reti, Janowski, Bogoljubow, Tarrasch, Duras, John, Tartakower, Fahrni, Post, Carls, Krüger, Flamberg and Mieses.
90 games from the lower sections (all that are known), many never published before, many with notes.
103 games from the tournaments played by the interned players in Baden Baden and Triberg, plus other games played in consultation, in matches and by correspondence. All the available games (about 143), many with notes.
Almost half the book, more than 250 pages, tells the full story of what happened when the tournament was broken off - a story never told before of the arrests, internments, the ones that got away. The author has attempted to follow all 40 Russians who were at Mannheim playing, reporting and spectating and to tell their stories. Magazine and newspaper articles are quoted from the USA, Britain, Germany, Russia, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Australia and more. Alekhine’s story has some surprises!
The book contains (approximately) 373 games and 1 problem, 232 diagrams and 130 illustrations (photographs, maps, documents).
In early August 1914 there were 12 Russians left in Mannheim facing internment and by mid-1918 just 4 were left in Germany and only 2 were ‘free’ and still playing chess. The book explains how and why.
This is one of the strangest stories in modern chess and it is has now been researched and recounted for the first time.


Introduction
Many years ago, Jan Kalendovsky of Brno sent me his collection of games from the lesser tournaments at Mannheim. For years I have been collecting games played by the interned players. I was contacted, several years ago, by Andrew McMillan of Toronto, who was working on a biography of Bohatyrchuk. He told me about Maljutin s six articles in Rech and the interview that Alekhine gave when he got back to St. Petersburg/Petrograd. I was aware that the story of the internees was unknown to most chess players. The answer to my puzzle of wh at to do with the Mannheim, Baden Baden and Triberg games therefore seemed to be, to publish the entire collection of games along with as much of the story as I could unearth. Little did I realise just how much there was to find. So here it is, tirned to coincide with the centenary of the Mannheim tournament. It isnt the last word as lrn sure that more details will crop up. The biggest unexplored source of new material is likely to be in the archives of the Russian government, if they still exist for this period. I know that there . are more documents in Canada which originated with Bohatyrchuk. I have been unable to find details of Alekhines brief stay in Paris or how Saburov travelled back to Russia, to mention only a couple of subjects. There may be more about Alekhine s stay in Genoa in the newspaper reports on his simul there in 1933. There is an archive of telegrams in Stockholm which may contain information about the messages Alekhine se nt from there to St. Petersburg. I have made no attempt to find information on all the players at Mannheim. The recently published book, in German, by Stefan Haas, Der XIX. Kongress des Deutschen Schachbundes zu Mannheim 1914, has many short biographies of Hauptturnier players. My objective is somewhat different. I have tried to give information on as many of the Russian players and visitors to Mannheim as possible, in order to try to explain why some of them were interned but others weren 't. My attempts to discover something about every one of them has produced some interesting stories - see Olenius, Szapiro, Walfisz and the reason why Chaim Janowski is buried in Tokyo. There is some sort of biography here on all the competitors in the Master Tournament. For those less well-known, I have included a standard, if brief, biography. For the better known players, I have focussed on events around Mannheim and the war and not repeated well-known information. For the non-Russians in the lower sections, biographies have been included where they were important to the story or, simply, where information was available. The chess world lacks a great deal of biographical information about manyof its players, even ones of international standard. Stefan Haas book on Mannheim 1914 has brief biographies of rnost of the German players - more than you will find here.

More Information
EAN 9780992792428
Weight 1.18 kg
Manufacturer The Chess Player
Width 18.5 cm
Height 25 cm
Medium Book
Year of Publication 2014
Author Anthony J. Gillam
Language English
Edition 1
ISBN-13 978-0992792428
Pages 525
Binding clothbound
Diagrams 232
Photos 130
008 Introduction
009 My Thanks Go To
010 Di Felice and Mannheim 1914
Chapter 1:
013 Master Tournament
021 Mannheim 1914; games 1-99
027 Walter John
038 Erhardt Post
043 Gyula Breyer
055 Rudolf Spielmann
063 Carl Carls
073 Oldrich Duras
083 Siegbert Tarrasch
094 Jacques Mieses
102 Paul Krüger
111 Richard Reti
120 Milan Vidmar
125 Cross table
126 From the Sea
Chapter 2:
127 Other Tournaments
127 Hauptturnier A: games 1-27
127 Josef Hrdina (1 game)
138 Hans Duhm
139 Willem Schelfhout
145 Ahues (photo)
146 Cross table
146 B. Hallequa
147 Hauptturnier B: games 28-87
148 Pairings Chart
148 Group B1 : games 28-40
149 Bernhard Richter
150 Erik Olson in 1926
151 Anton Olson
152 Kurt Lüdecke
155 Cross Table
155 Group B2: no games
155 Adolf Kramer
156 Cross table
156 Group B3: games 41-47
157 Julius Brach (2 games)
162 Cross table
162 Group B4: games 48-59
164 Klaas Geus
166 Alfred Suren
168 Cross table
168 Group B5: games 60-68
172 George Fontein
172 Cross table
172 Final A: games 69-75
175 Gerrit van Gelder
177 Cross table
177 Final B: games 76-87
180 Methodej Gargulak (1 game)
181 Albert Hallgarten
185 Cross table
185 Neben Tournaments: gS88-90
185 Isidore Weltevreede
185 Ado Krämer
187 OUo von Diegenbroick-Grueter
188 Neben cross tables
189 Results of Neben finals
Chapter 3:
190 The Russian Story
194 The Russians at Mannheim
195 Simon Alapin
197 Dawid Przepiorka
201 Nikolai Kholodkovsky
201 Peter Potemkin (5 games)
204 Ivan Alekseevsky
204 Simon Rotenstein (2 games)
207 Chaim Janowski (1 game)
208 Julius Sosnitsky
210 Peter Yordansky (4 games)
212 Leo Ginsberg and others
212 Sh. Rosenbaum (1 game)
214 Arnold Walfisz (1 game)
215 Nikolai Rudnev (1 game)
218 Chaim Asch
219 Salomon Szapiro (2 games)
221 Traunstein Camp
223 Hans Agthe (1 game)
225 Oiva Olenius
226 Solomon Khvilivitsky (2 games)
229 Savielly Tartakower
230 Jozef Dominik (5 games)
234 Emil Hartewig
234 B.A.Hartvig
234 Nikolai Hartvig
235 Gunnar Gundersen
Other Stories:
241 Richard Teichmann
241 Emanuel Lasker
242 Paul Leonhardt
242 Edward Lasker (3 games)
245 Georg Schories (3 games)
246 Adolf Brodsky (2 games)
248 Internment - the Background
249 The Story in England
250 The Story in Germany
250 Richard Swinne
252 Official Notifications
256 Events in Mannheim
259 Schelfhout' s Article
266 Talk Afterwards in Mannheim
268 La Strategie Article
270 Maljutins Reply
271 Article in Oe Telegraaf - Krüger
274 Louis Raemaekers
276 Problem by Gudehus
276 Bohatyrchuk Biography: Part 1
280 Two Years in Germany 1a
282 Heine Poem
284 Frank Marshall (2 games)
290 Leo Nardus
292 Moisei Eljashov (2 games)
300 Dawid Janowski (4 games)
Two Years in Germany 1 b:
306 Mannheim to Rastatt
310 Games at Rastatt (6 games)
313 Bohatyrchuk Biography: Part 2
316 Badeblatt cuttings
317 Two Years in Germany 2
323 Bohatyrch u k- Romanovsky(2gs)
324 Romanovsky-Rabinovich (1 g)
324 Bogoljubow-Rabinovich(5 gs)
327 Weinstein-Brauns (1 game)
327 The Baden Baden Tournament
328 Bohatyrchuk Biography: Part 3
333 Bohatyrchuk Interview
335 Feodor Bohatyrchuk (4 games)
340 Peter Saburov
343 Naum Kopelman
343 Alekhines Story
349 Voronezh Telegraf articles
355 Alekhine in Stockholm (2 gs)
358 Interview with Alekhine
362 Later Recollection of Alekhine
362 Romanovsky memoir
363 An Alekhine Calendar
368 The Move to Triberg
372 History of Triberg
375 The Chess Players in Triberg
375 Weinstein-Romanovsky (1 g)
377 Other Games (2 games)
379 Two Years in Germany 3
382 Peter Romanovsky
387 Two Years in Germany 4
392 Vienna Consultation (6 games)
399 Other Games (4 games)
403 Alexander Flamberg
405 Two Years in Germany 5
412 Selesniev-Fahrni (1 game)
414 Hans Fahrni
418 Boris Maljutin
419 Reports on Expenditure
422 Two Years in Germany 6
426 Last Four in Triberg (4 games)
428 Samuel Weinstein
429 Bogoljubow-Selesniev (4 gs)
430 lIya Rabinovich
432 Weinstein and Rabinovich
435 Selesniev-Bogoljubow (1 g)
436 Alexey Selesniev
438 Efim Bogoljubow
Chapter 4:
445 The Interned Tournaments
445 Baden Baden 1914: gs 1-19
457 Cross table
458 Triberg 1914/15: gs 20-31
464 Cross table
464 Triberg March 1915: gs 32-38
469 Cross table
469 Triberg Apr/May 1915: gs39-59
483 Cross table
484 Triberg August 1915: gs 60-74
497 Cross table
498 Triberg 1915/16: gs 75-83
503 Cross table
504 Triberg 1916: gs 84-99
516 Cross table
516 Triberg 1917: gs 100-103
517 Cross table
518 Index of Illustrations
520 Index of Openings
522 Index of Games
525 Abbreviations
(St. Petersburg, photographs)
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