Kiev 1903 chess tournament

The 3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament took place in the rooms of the Kiev Chess Society in the Popov Building at No. 29 Kreshchatyk in Kiev on September 1–26, 1903. The Society used the rooms of the Kiev Bicycle Association which had its premises on the second floor of the aforementioned building on the corner of the Kreshchatyk & Lutheran (#29 Kreshchatyk) right next door to the Warsaw Café.[1]

A Polish nobleman, count A.F. Plater, the president of the Kiev Chess Society (Kievskoye Shakhmatnoye Obshchestvo) was the tournament patron,[2] Loxting and Vengerov were tournament officials.[3]

The results and standings:[4][5][6]

# Player City Country 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Total
1 Mikhail Chigorin Saint Petersburg  Russia x 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 + 1 ½ 1 1 15.0
2 Ossip Bernstein Zhytomyr  Ukraine 1 x 1 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 + 14.0
3 Vladimir Yurevich Moscow  Russia 1 0 x ½ 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 13.5
4 Gersz Salwe Łódź  Poland 0 ½ ½ x ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 + 13.0
5 Akiba Rubinstein Łódź  Poland 0 0 1 ½ x ½ 0 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 + 11.5
6 Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Saint Petersburg  Russia 0 1 0 0 ½ x ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 + 11.0
7 Moishe Lowtzky Kiev  Ukraine 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ x ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 11.0
8 Stepan Levitsky Nizhny Tagil  Russia 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 ½ x 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 10.5
9 Stefan Izbinsky Kiev  Ukraine ½ ½1 0 0 1 0 1 x 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 ½ 1 1 9.5
10 Sergey Lebedev Saint Petersburg  Russia 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 1 x 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 9.5
11 Abram Rabinovich Vilna  Lithuania 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 x 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 + 8.5
12 Emanuel Schiffers Saint Petersburg  Russia 0 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 1 x 1 1 1 1 0 ½ + 8.5
13 Viacheslav Kulomzin Kostroma  Russia 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 ½ 0 0 x 1 1 1 1 ½ + 8.0
14 N. Kalinsky Novokhopersk  Russia 0 1 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 x 1 0 1 1 1 7.5
15 Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky Kiev  Ukraine - 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 0 x ½ 1 1 1 7.0
16 P.P. Benko Kiev  Ukraine 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 ½ x 1 1 1 6.5
17 Boris Nikolaev Kiev  Ukraine ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 x 1 1 4.5
18 Wilhelm von Stamm Riga  Latvia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 x 1 2.0
19 V.V. Breev Kiev  Ukraine 0 - 0 - - - 0 0 0 0 - - - 0 0 0 0 0 x 0.0

References

  1. ↑ http://blog.chess.com/batgirl/kievs-warsaw-caf
  2. ↑ http://www.astercity.net/~vistula/kronika01405.htm
  3. ↑ http://blog.chess.com/view/memories-of-chigorin
  4. ↑ http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1903kiew.htm
  5. ↑ http://polbase.w.interia.pl/kijow1903.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz80.pdf