1902 in chess
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Below is a list of events in chess in the year 1902:
News
- Géza Maróczy (Hungary) wins the Monte Carlo tournament, ahead of Harry Pillsbury (United States) and Dawid Janowski (France).
- March 14â15 â The United States team wins the Anglo-American cable match 5½â4½. Harry Pillsbury and Frank Marshall are in Europe to play at Monte Carlo, so they traveled to London to play their games in person.
- Janowski wins the German Open Championship, followed by Pillsbury and Henry Ernest Atkins (Great Britain).[1]
- Karl Schlechter (Austria) defeats Janowski in match at Karlsbad by the score 7½â2½.[1]
Births
- Eduard Glass (died after 1980), Austrian master and 1929 Austrian co-champion with Erich Eliskases
- Ludwig Schmitt (1902â1980), German chess master
- January 16 â Róża Herman (1902â1995), Polish chess player, is born in Åódź
- February 20 â Virgilio Fenoglio (1902â1990), Argentine master, is born in Santa Fe
- March 16 â Mario Monticelli (1902â1995), Italian IM (1950) and GME (1985), is born in Venice[2]
- June 5 â Georg Kieninger (1902â1975), German International Master (1950), is born in Munich[3]
- July 27 â Teodors Bergs (1902â1966), Latvian master, is born in Riga
- August 5 â Rudolf Pitschak (1902â1988), CzechâGerman master, is born in Rumburk
- October 15 â MarÃa Teresa Mora (1902â1980), Cuban Woman International Master (1950), is born in Havana[2]
- December 3 â Feliks Kibbermann (1902â1993), Estonian master, is born in Rakvere
- December 6 â G. H. Diggle (1902â1993), British chess player and writer, is born in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England
Deaths
- Samuel Rosenthal, Polish-French master and chess writer, dies Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, at age 65
- June 15 â Stanislaus Sittenfeld, Polish-French master, dies in Davos, Switzerland, at age 36[4]
- December 28 â Hieronim Czarnowski, Polish master and activist, dies at age 68[5]