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FLAGS NAME 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 TOTAL 
01 Russian Empire  Poland Akiba Rubinstein 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 14.5/18 
02 German Empire  East Brandenburg Emanuel Lasker 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 14.5/18 
03 Austria-Hungary  Austria Rudolf Spielmann 0 ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 11.0/18 
04 Austria-Hungary  Bohemia Oldrich Duras 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11.0/18 
05 Russian Empire  Ukraine Ossip Bernstein ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 10.5/18 
06 German Empire  German Empire Richard Teichmann ½ 0 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 10.0/18 
07 Austria-Hungary  Poland Julius Perlis ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 1 9.5/18 
08 German Empire  German Empire Erich Cohn 0 0 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 9.0/18 
09 Austria-Hungary  Austria Carl Schlechter 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 0 0 1 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 9.0/18 
10 Russian Empire  Poland Georg Salwe 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 9.0/18 
11 Austria-Hungary  Poland Saviely Tartakower ½ 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 8.5/18 
12 German Empire  German Empire Jacques Mieses 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 0 1 1 8.5/18 
13 Russian Empire  Ukraine F. Dus Chotimirsky 1 1 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 8.0/18 
14 Austria-Hungary  Hungary Leo Forgacs 0 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 7.5/18 
15 United Kingdom  England Amos Burn ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 7.0/18 
16 Austria-Hungary  Slovenia Milan Vidmar 0 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 7.0/18 
17 The Netherlands  The Netherlands Abraham Speijer 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 6.0/18 
18 Russian Empire  Russian Empire Ser. von Freymann 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 5.5/18 
19 Russian Empire  Russian Empire Eugene Borovsky 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 5.0/18 

 




Chigorin Memorial - Saint Petersburg 1909

The Chigorin Memorial is a chess tournament played in honour of the chess legend Mikhail Chigorin (1850-1908), founder of the Soviet School. The first and most important edition was the one played in 1909 in St. Petersburg. Later on, the tournament was mainly played in the Black Sea resort Sochi. From 1993 the venue for the tournament returned to his hometown.

St. Petersburg 1909

Emanuel Lasker - Akiba Rubinstein, St. Petersburg 1909
President of the organising committee was Peter Petrovich Saburov, President of the St. Petersburg Chess Club. Members of the committee were Boris Maliutin, O. Sossnitzky, V. Tschudowski, Sergius A. Znosko-Borovsky and Eugene A. Znosko-Borovsky. The main event lasted from 14 February to 12 March 1909.

Rubinstein and Lasker won 875 rubles (each), Spielmann and Duras 475 rubles (each), Bernstein 190 rubles, Teichmann 120 rubles, Perlis 80 rubles, Cohn, Schlechter, and Salwe 40 rubles (each).

 

     Chigorin Memorial - Saint Petersburg 1909. (18 January 2011 at 13:35). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18 March 2011, at 12:25
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