Erich Cohn

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Erich Cohn (born 1 March 1884, Berlin – died 28 August 1918, France) was a German chess master.

He won or tied for 1st in several tournaments in Berlin (1902, 1905, 1906, 1909/10, 1914). In strong tournaments, he tied for 11-12th at Berlin 1903 (Horatio Caro won). In 1904, he took 10th in Coburg (A tourn). In 1905, he took 5th in Barmen (A tourn). In 1906, he took 6th in Nuremberg (15th DSB Kongress; Frank Marshall won). In 1907, he took 6th in Berlin (Richard Teichmann won). In 1907, he tied for 12-14th in Ostend (B tourn; Ossip Bernstein and Akiba Rubinstein won). In 1907, he took 20th in Carlsbad (Rubinstein won).

In 1908, he took 19th in Vienna (Oldrich Duras, Geza Maroczy and Carl Schlechter won). In 1909, he tied for 8-9th in St Petersburg (Emanuel Lasker and Rubinstein won). In 1909, he took 3rd in Stockholm (Rudolf Spielmann won). In 1911, he tied for 14-16th in Carlsbad (Teichmann won). In 1912, he tied for 15-17th in Bad Pistyan (Rubinstein won), tied for 13-14th in Breslau (18th DSB Kongress; Duras and Rubinstein won), took 3rd in Abbazia (Spielmann won) and took 2nd, behind Alexander Alekhine, in Stockholm. ^[1]

In matches, he won against Carl Carls, drew with Ehrhardt Post, and lost to Rudolf Spielmann and Emanuel Lasker.

He died in a western front, as a field doctor, at the end of WW I.