Carl Schlechter Memorial Tournament

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Carl Schlechter Memorial Tournament (Carl-Schlechter-Gedenkturnier) is an irregularly scheduled chess competition initiated to honor the memory of leading Austrian chess master Carl Schlechter (1874–1918), who died as a result of privations suffered in the immediate aftermath of World War I.

As of 2008, seven Memorial Tournaments have taken place in Schlechter's native city of Vienna, with the first one, held from 15 November to 28 November 1923, organized and attended by twelve of Schlechter's colleagues. The winner was Savielly Tartakower, followed by Richard Réti, Rudolf Spielmann, Ernst Grünfeld, Lajos Steiner, Albert Becker, Karel Opočenský, Sándor Takács, Siegfried Reginald Wolf, Felix Fischer, Julius von Paray and Theodor Gruber[1].

[edit] Winners

# Year Winner
1 1923 Flag of Poland Savielly Tartakower (Poland)
2 1947 Flag of Hungary László Szabó (Hungary)
3 1949 Flag of Czechoslovakia Jan Foltys (Czechoslovakia)
Flag of Yugoslavia Stojan Puc (Yugoslavia)
4 1951 Flag of Israel Moshe Czerniak (Israel)
5 1961 Flag of the Soviet Union Yuri Averbakh (Soviet Union)
6 1971 Flag of Czechoslovakia Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia)
7 1996 Flag of Bulgaria Ilya Balinov (Bulgaria)

[edit] References

  1. ^ List of participants in each Carl Schlechter Memorial Tournament