Carlsbad 1907 chess tournament
The Carlsbad 1907 chess tournament was one of four well-known international chess tournaments held in the spa city of Carlsbad (Bohemia, then Austria-Hungary Empire). The other tournament years were 1911, 1923 and 1929.[1]
The 1907 tournament was held at the Kurhaus (Kaiserbad) imperial bath hotel. Twenty-one great masters, under the direction of Viktor Tietz, played from August 20 to September 17, 1907.[2]
The results and standings:[3]
# Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Total 1 Akiba Rubinstein (Russian Empire) /
Poland
x ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 15.0 2 Géza Maróczy (Austria-Hungary) /
Hungary
½ x 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 14.5 3 Paul Saladin Leonhardt (German Empire) /
Poland
½ 1 x ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 13.5 4 Aron Nimzowitsch (Russian Empire) /
Latvia
1 ½ ½ x 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 12.5 5 Carl Schlechter (Austria-Hungary) /
Austria
½ ½ 1 0 x ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 12.5 6 Milan Vidmar (Austria-Hungary) /
Slovenia
½ ½ 0 ½ ½ x 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 0 0 12.0 7 Richard Teichmann (German Empire) /
Thuringia
0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 x 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 11.5 8 Oldřich Duras (Austria-Hungary) /
Bohemia
0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 x 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 11.5 9 Gersz Salwe (Russian Empire) /
Poland
0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 x ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 11.0 10 Heinrich Wolf (Austria-Hungary) /
Austria
½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ x ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 10.5 11 Frank James Marshall (United States) /
New York
0 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ x 1 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 1 10.0 12 Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky (Russian Empire) /
Ukraine
0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 x 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 10.0 13 Rudolf Spielmann (Austria-Hungary) /
Austria
1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 x 0 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 1 9.5 14 Savielly Tartakower (Austria-Hungary) /
Poland
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 x 0 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 9.0 15 Dawid Janowski (France) /
Poland
0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 x 1 1 1 0 1 1 8.5 16 Johann Berger (Austria-Hungary) /
Austria
0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 x 1 1 0 ½ ½ 7.5 17 Mikhail Chigorin (Russian Empire) /
Russia
0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 x 0 1 0 1 7.5 18 Jacques Mieses (German Empire) /
Saxony
½ ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 x 1 1 0 7.5 19 Adolf Georg Olland (Netherlands) /
Utrecht
0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 x 1 1 6.5 20 Erich Cohn (German Empire) /
Brandenburg
0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 x 1 5.0 21 Paul Johner (Switzerland) /
Zürich
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 x 4.5